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...have also moved into the south. The chief victims of the resulting violence have been Palestinian refugees, who were left defenseless by the departure of the Palestine Liberation Organization last August. Last week alone, masked gunmen killed six Palestinians near Sidon. Some 1,000 others have been forced at gunpoint to abandon their homes. Says a senior officer of the Lebanese Forces: "The Israelis' great mistake was not to disarm everybody in the south...
...include such things--so it comes as no surprise when Jill, under pressure from teachers and parents to drop "that boy," works herself up into a rage after he sneaks into one of her drama rehearsals. Only after he kidnaps the girl and her friend, holding them at gunpoint in the backseat of the "rat" while his friend careens around Trenton, does their relationship return to normal. It falters again when he's expelled from St. Catherine's picks up the next fall when Jill, feeling out of it at Sarah Lawrence, visits him in Miami. Yes, she loses...
...citizens were stopped, searched and asked for their identification cards. Meanwhile, squads of soldiers went house to house, looking for high school graduates to fill the ranks of the unpopular and demoralized Afghan army. When the soldiers found a potential recruit, they would take him away at gunpoint. Says an Afghan exile living in New Delhi: "It is not what you would call winning the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan...
...Saturday morning; during the interim, the killings were continuing. On Friday afternoon, a group of at least 400 people seeking refuge in downtown West Beirut and carrying a white flag approached Israeli soldiers. The civilians said a massacre was taking place; they were turned back to the camps at gunpoint...
...Saturday morning, the militiamen advanced into the heavily populated camp of Sabra, bordering Shatila on the north. Using bullhorns, they announced to terrified residents that they were Israelis, and demanded that the Palestinians assemble in the street. Some heeded the call, while others were forced from their homes at gunpoint. The wailing, screaming throng was in a state of collective hysteria. Said one man who survived the ordeal: "We knew what they had been doing in Shatila. We were sure our time had come." The militiamen fired into the air several times in an attempt to restore order...