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When they leave their homes, settlers are supposed to carry weapons day and night, and some are quite willing to use them. Two weeks ago, when Arab youths put up a makeshift roadblock along the route to the Jewish settlement of Shiloh, two carloads of settlers crashed through the obstruction, firing rifles and submachine guns as they proceeded. Not until five days later was the body of a 17-year-old Arab youth discovered on a hillside near by. Police subsequently arrested and charged the secretary of the settlement, Nathan Nathanson, 38, with the shooting. Last week, at another roadblock...
...support. As the preliminary speeches droned on, they began to chant his name in unison: "Duarte! Duarte! Duarte!" The cheers reached a crescendo as José Napoleón Duarte, leader of the Christian Democrats and President of El Salvador's civilian-military government, appeared on the makeshift podium...
...NOTEBOOK: It was a year ago Saturday that injured Adam Dixon won the Outstanding Performer Award when he set a Heps record in the 1500 . . . Both Shawn Hall and Robert Taylor enjoyed their season's best performances in the triple jump, despite Cornell's makeshift takeoff board . . . Jimmy Johnson, however, jumped a foot shorter than he did in the Big Three meet. He still has a chance next week to qualify for the NCAAs Of the four returning Heps champs, only sprinter Doug Harris of Penn did not repeat . . . Mark Henry pulled off his usual jumping triple, placing in both...
...show his fellow computer buffs. Jobs, in contrast, saw the commercial potential of the machine that could help families do their personal finance or small businesses control inventories, and he urged that they form a company to market the computer. The two raised $1,300 to open a makeshift production line by selling Jobs' Volkswagen Micro Bus and Wozniak's Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator. Jobs, recalling a pleasant summer that he spent working in the orchards of Oregon, christened the new computer Apple...
...foil terrorists. Death threats against Frederic Chapin, Washington's Ambassador to Guatemala, were taken so seriously that a special Marine sniper team was temporarily added to the U.S. embassy staff. For safety's sake, Chapin and his wife spent part of the Christmas season in a makeshift bedroom in the ambassador's office rather than at home...