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Nothing else about the makeshift football season was as well arranged as last week's championship match in the National Football Conference, the Dallas Cowboys vs. the Washington Redskins, one of sport's liveliest running arguments, where the score (31-17, Washington this time) is never really final. The grudge between these Cowboys and Redskins traces to historical events other than the familiar differences between cowboys and Indians...
...there was nothing but rocks, a few tractors and some foundations at a place called Tzavta, near Qalqilya. When TIME Correspondent David Halevy visited Tzavta again last week, he found a newly built 3½ -mile road, ten cottages nearing completion and another 70 on the way. A makeshift factory was turning out building blocks and iron rods, and four large cranes were busy day and night moving prefabricated materials to the building sites. Here, as elsewhere in the West Bank, the labor force was local Palestinians, while the inspectors and chief technicians were Israelis...
Despite Falk's concern, many of the spirited residents, or "river rats," as they call themselves, were busy last week cleaning and rebuilding, helping one another with fatalistic good humor. In the makeshift emergency center sits a tiny bronze trophy with a paper sign: "1st place, Times Beach, highest contamination of dioxin award for bravery." Many residents, reluctant to desert the town, plan to wait to see if the Government will provide relocation funds, as it did for the residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y., which was also polluted with dioxin. "I have no place else...
...rebellion. The two fathers deny the accusations; their defense lawyers say that police used torture to persuade nine peasants to testify against the two men. The priests are warmly remembered back in the jungle. Says Josias de Silva, 37, the head of one of 36 families guarding their makeshift village in the rain forest: "Father Aristides showed us the church is on the side of the poor...
...show trial, the largest in Egypt's modern history. The makeshift courtroom is an exhibition hall at the Cairo fairgrounds, where 280 prisoners are on display in huge steel cages. Another 20 defendants are still at large, and two have died in prison. Most of the prisoners are accused of being members of a Muslim fundamentalist group known as al Jihad (Holy War), and many are linked with the violence that broke out in the Upper Egyptian city of Asyut following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on Oct. 6, 1981. Nineteen of the defendants were among those sentenced...