Word: four-year-old
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...DECEMBER 16, 1981, a Brooklyn woman named Shirley Santos--an unwed mother with six children--brought her four-year-old daughter to the hospital. Covered with welts and urinating blood, the child had clearly been the victim of a violent outburst. After only a few hours at the hospital, police arrested Santos on charges of child abuse. "I don't remember what happened," she told them. "I would never hurt my baby...I just got my period...
...houseful of poltergeists that zip out of a television set and swallow up a four-year-old girl. The only person who can call her back is her mother, by thinking hard about how much she loves her daughter...
...celebrations continued. When a shipload of guerrillas reached the Syrian port of Tartus, they were greeted by shouts of "Victory!" and "Palestine!" Five sheep were slaughtered on the dock and skinned to provide a carpet for the visitors to walk upon as they came ashore. When a four-year-old Palestinian boy in Beirut asked his father, "Why is everybody shooting?" he was told, "To celebrate a great victory." To which the boy replied, "But if the soldiers won, why are they going?" The answer, only partly obscured by the fanfare of the occasion, was that they had no choice...
There is news of Lara. A few months after her parents were killed, the girl was taken to live with relatives in Jordan. She is said to be well. Nothing on four-year-old Samer or the baby Palestine yet, but Ahmed has been located. He is posted somewhere on the front and is a full-fledged soldier now. His older brother Farouk will try to track him down. Farouk is more self-assured than Ahmed, a bit colder as well. At 31, he holds a high rank in Al-Fatah, the largest faction within the P.L.O. He says very...
...last hours in West Beirut. Tomorrow the journey south, first The last hours in West Beirut. Tomorrow the journey south, first to Sidon, then to Tyre, to try to find Samer. It is difficult to tell why this quest remains important. A four-year-old, his father dead. What does one have to tell him? What does he have to say to anyone? Still, he offers a goal, a purpose, in a place where purposes are hard to come by or confused. This day, then, will offer one last look at the torn half city. There is an odd sense...