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...stark fact that in choosing to skyjack the Iraqi Airways flight in hopes of bagging Dr. George Habash, a high-ranking leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Israel in effect had decided that ends justify means. There is a growing urge in Jerusalem to knock out the terrorists once...
...knock myself loose for Mr. Nixon in 1959 and 1960," he wrote, "and cast my lot with him through the long, arid comeback years of 1965 through 1968 to have him-or some lizard-lidded paranoid acting in his name without his approval-eavesdropping on my conversations...
...French believers in a nuclear force claim that parity is not the objective of the Mururoa tests, that the aim is simply to develop sufficient weapons to provide a taux d'ennui (nuisance tax). If France could knock out just a couple of major cities in any attacking nation, this reasoning goes, that would be enough to deter a bigger power from trying to knock out all of France...
WHEN RICHARD P. White '74 answered a knock on his Eliot House door at 11 p.m. on January 22 and told the three youths who appeared that he did not know anyone named "John Simmons," they produced a gun and forced their way into the room. After robbing him of $26 in cash and a face mask valued at $10, the assailants bound White's hands and feet, placed a pistol next to his head and fired a shot into the ceiling...
They are encouraged to "charge" the front porch of a prospective customer and knock loudly, starting the first call at exactly 7:59 a.m. and spending no more than 20 minutes with any prospect. In training sessions they also spend time shouting, clapping and singing ("Goodbye to no and never,/ Goodbye to doubt and fear. It's a good thing to be a bookman/ And to be of good cheer"). When answering the phone...