Word: midafternoon
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...central Israel ordered a 5 p.m. curfew enforced in Arab villages near the Jordan border. Colonel Issachar Shadmi told Major Shmuel Malinki of the border police that this order was to be strictly enforced, that any villager found abroad after the curfew hour was to be shot. In midafternoon Major Malinki passed the order along to his company commanders, adding, "May Allah have mercy on their souls." On the stroke of 5, Lieut. Gabriel Dehan deployed his constables in three groups around the Arab village of Kfar Kassim. In the next hours his cops shot and killed 43 men, women...
...killed. Down with imperialist agents. Compatriots, now we can speak and breathe." Another broadcast gave the first indication that at least some supporters of the King were fighting back. "Some of our compatriots are firing on us," reported the rebel radio announcer in almost disbelieving tones. By midafternoon, with resistance not ended, the radio was urging Iraqi womanhood to stand by "your free brothers fighting in the streets...
...midafternoon, Reuters agency announced that its Moscow correspondent had been cut off as he was telephoning his account of the rioting mobs before the West German embassy (see FOREIGN NEWS). Most Fleet Street editors sighed resignedly and sat back to wait until the Russian censor lifted the blackout. But in a cluttered, dingy office in the Manchester Guardian's London bureau, rumpled, high-domed Victor Zorza grabbed a street map of Moscow, picked out the police stations nearest the German embassy. Minutes later, a desk man in Moscow's police station 88 picked up his telephone, was astounded...
...barnlike TV studio on the fringes of San Francisco's Skid Row, District Attorney Tom Lynch asked for bids on a rattan duck rising from dried grasses, Columnist Herb ("Mr. San Francisco") Caen tried to peddle the services of a private eye. For five days last week, from midafternoon to midnight, these and a hundred other prominent San Franciscans acted as volunteer auctioneers for some 5,000 items donated by San Francisco merchants or individuals. Occasion: the fourth annual fund-raising auction for San Francisco's KQED-TV, the community-owned educational television station...
With the upper hand, Batista drove boldly around the city while his cops proceeded to make their supremacy complete. When a patrol car radioed that it had clashed with rebels and had "a dead man and a prisoner," the dispatcher ordered: "Shoot him." At midafternoon, cops burst into a boardinghouse, grabbed three young men who were leaders of Cuba's lay Catholic Action movement, which sympathizes with Castro. Two hours later their stripped, tortured and bullet-torn bodies were turned over to relatives. Total dead...