Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Singling out segments, though, becomes counterproductive in view of Magaril's strategy and art. Using his actors, his musicians, his softened spotlights as mortar and stone, he builds and builds until the overpowering structure needs no outright message to spell out its devastating vision and power. This reviewer, at least, has never before caught herself sobbing at a Harvard play...
...about 5 p.m. Thursday, Hobeika's force assembled at the Beirut International Aiport and moved into the Shatila camp soon afterward. Israeli artillery assisted them with flares and later with tank and mortar fire. There was scattered resistance, and Hobeika's men asked for more flares, more tank fire and later for first-aid assistance in evacuating their own casualties. At dawn Friday, Hobeika received Israeli permission to bring two additional battalions into the camps. As it turned out, only one battalion was used. Throughout the day and all that night, the murderous operation continued. On Friday, Israeli Chief...
...more, of course. But his little box seems to symbolize a gentle, almost self-effacing approach that has helped Shultz settle into his role as the pointman of American foreign policy. In a methodical and low-keyed way, he has spent his first six weeks in office putting mortar between the crumbling bricks of U.S. policy. Outside thinkers have been summoned to help assess basic American goals around the globe. Seminars with the President and his aides have been instituted so that decision making will be less haphazard. And for the moment, at least, a renewed partnership between the State...
...land of the museum crossing, a group of exhausted Israeli soldiers were sprawled in sleep on the patio of an elegant apartment house. Others wearing helmets and flak jackets waited patiently in a few lined-up tanks and armored personnel carriers. Machine gun, tank and mortar fire were crashing back and forth down the Avenue Abdallah Yafi. Wandering pensively behind two tanks, Bruce, 23, a Brooklyn-born yeshiva student, was clutching a Hebrew Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other. "I back the government 100%," he said. "We've suffered so much from the terrorists...
Nonetheless, Palestinian forces doggedly continued to challenge the Israeli occupation troops. Some 300 P.L.O. holdouts barricaded themselves inside the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon and pelted Israeli positions with mortar fire before being flushed out. Other P.L.O. guerrillas, however, were said to have found refuge in the hills. Admitted an Israeli officer: "The territory has not yet been sterilized...