Word: headmanned
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...also serve a second purpose: putting pressure on Lebanon to police the Palestinians. But the main victims over the years have not been the mobile commandos but the Lebanese families who live in the border villages. Among the victims of last week's raids was the septuagenarian mukhtar (headman) of Hasbaya; he was the 137th civilian to be killed so far. In addition, 402 Lebanese have been wounded and 91 have been captured and forcibly taken across the border into Israel for interrogation...
While the urban raiders were striking, three other detachments of Israelis landed at outlying coastal areas. One group hit the impoverished village of Ouzai, at the south end of Beirut. It unaccountably blew up the house of the village headman. He escaped, but two of his brothers were shot to death when they rushed out of their houses to see what had happened. Beyond the village, the Israelis coolly set up a roadblock on the coastal highway and then blew up a small factory suspected of supplying explosives to Palestinian terrorists. Three Syrians who ran the factory were killed...
...Headman Decherd refused to predict the exact score of either game, though Jimmy the Greek is offering 21-point spreads in both games. Decherd only frowned and said. "Those guys aren't supposed to be any good, but we'll probably win anyway...
...Malays feel about the arrangement? The only one allowed to speak with reporters was Headman Buyah Bin Amin. "Are we treated like slaves? No, of course not," says Buyah. "We are quite happy here, although a few of the younger ones are not satisfied with what they...
...COSVN Communist were to wear that T shirt, it would be a somewhat arid fellow code-named "R." Pham Hung, as he is otherwise known, is a Ho Chi Minh protégé who has been headman at COSVN since 1967. It is no surprise that "R" is hard to find; he is said to travel constantly between COSVN's different units by motor bike. Two weeks ago, U.S. troops came close to capturing an important element of the headquarters. Acting on a tip, two infantry battalions raced to a bunker complex near Mimot, only to find...