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ForIsraeli and PLOofficials, keeping the emerging West Bank accord on track after a terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv last week may have been the easy part. Now, they must convince Jewish settlers -- many of whom have occupied a local hilltop in protest -- to leave the territory. Today, in the biggest clash so far between authorities and West Bank settlers, hundreds of Israeli police and soldiers climbed the Dagan Hill and dragged them down by the dozens, only to watch them run back up. After several hours, hot and weary police and soldiers carried the settlers down again. (At least...
Despite his hectic schedule, Nagano has found time for a personal life. He married the Japanese-born pianist Mari Kodama in 1992. He still takes time out twice a year for a surfing holiday. Looking out over the Pacific Ocean from his hilltop home in San Francisco, he speaks wistfully of settling down, although that isn't likely soon. He is busily planning events in Lyons and Manchester well into the next millennium. "I like coming up with new ideas," he says. "And if I fail once in a while, it's worth it." Anyone who has heard him conduct...
...ancient hilltop monastery in Macedonia, a young monk named Kiril (Gregoire Colin of Olivier, Olivier) finds a frightened girl (Labina Mitevska) hiding in his cell. She is, we learn, the victim of ethnic hatred, and once her enemies track her down, the peace of this retreat is violently, permanently shattered...
Rwandans packed into Kigali's hotels, huddling in the dark hallways without food or beds, hoping the few foreigners there would protect them. Their terror only increased as the foreigners slipped away. At a hilltop compound for the insane, a group of Belgian nuns and lay brothers abandoned 200 of their patients in a desperate rush to escape. For days the clinic had been surrounded by bands of machete-armed Hutu men. The foreigners had little doubt about the future of their patients or the 500 Tutsis who had come for refuge $ from the fighting outside. "They're finished," said...
...Ames flees from her adulterous husband to the small town of Amapolas. She seeks a haven from hassles, from relationships, from dealing. She is joined on her hilltop fastness by Fran Bowles, a wayward nymphomaniac, fascinated by charming but fickle men. She buys her villa to stage an elaborate seduction scene. Fran, in turn, brings her widowed mother, Ursula, who has decided to end her days in Mexico, the land of her birth. She hopes to ease the transition between life and death, to clothe herself in an unreal, symbolic landscape...