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That rebellion seemed to gain momentum last week as Palestinians joined in a two-day general strike that closed schools and businesses, kept motorists off the roads, and turned Arab villages into ghost towns. Hundreds of Palestinian policemen and tax collectors employed by the Israeli government in the occupied territories quit their jobs, some out of sympathy for the movement, some out of fear. The Israelis responded with new measures, including a ban on delivery of gasoline and cooking fuel to Palestinian towns, a nightly curfew throughout the Gaza Strip, and disruption of international phone service linking the territories with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Here a Stall, There a Slide | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...Here's the pitch, Mattingly swings. Deep to right. Forget that one. Upperdeck job by the Hit Man. Run the pennant up the New York flagpole. The ghost of Bucky Dent has revived itself today at Yankee Stadium...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Opening Daydream | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

...sending more than 3000 troops to Honduras this week, ostensibly in defense of democracy, Ronald Reagan is letting an anachronism stalk the earth. A trick-or-treater in March. The ghost of a war we thought we had buried...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Ding-Dong Dead | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

DING-DONG. How cute. You must be Casper, the friendly ghost. "No, no. I'm the ghost of Vietnam...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Ding-Dong Dead | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...discovery that half of American high school students can't place the United States properly on a world map. How many of these kids, one wonders, know where Honduras is? And how many of these kids would be sent there, and even be buried there, should that ghost come alive...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Ding-Dong Dead | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

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