Word: jerusalem
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...Jerusalem community in Hale County is a fairly typical black town. New Jerusalem is not on any of the road maps, and it is a distinct mistake to ask local gas station owners how to get there ("Why you wonna go see them niggers boy?"). Most white visitors who find themselves in New Jerusalem are there by accident, having strayed off Country Road 21 on the way to Greensboro from Akron. The only white faces that appear regularly in the town are those of county sheriffs, looking for moonshine liquor...
...poorest family in New Jerusalem is headed by Silas Miller (a pseudonym). Miller is never too sure how many people live in his house, or even how many children he has. It doesn't matter; it's obviously too many. Usually there are about 23 people--half of them Miller's children, the rest an assortment of relatives, neighbors, and "little fellers we just couldn't turn away"--living in the one-room house...
Temperatures further cooled when police announced that they had rounded up 23 Arab suspects, two of them high school students captured moments after the bombs went off. The students confessed, and police said that they were members of a terrorist gang that set off three bombs in Jerusalem last month, one of which had sparked a similar Israeli rampage against Arabs. In the future, Tel Aviv will be safer, if not so clean: as a precaution, the city's sanitation department removed its metal litter baskets from the downtown streets...
...claimed credit for the explosions that brought the total number of such incidents to 14 in two months. Its aim: to unsettle the civilian population and sabotage the modus vivendi between Jews and Arabs in Je rusalem. After a protest strike by the Arab population, normal life returned to Jerusalem. But on the Israeli-Jor danian border, the military hostilities erupted anew. At week's end Israelis and Jordanians were peppering one another across the frontier with small-arms fire...