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...brought in by Gush Emunim, the ultranationalist religious movement that has spearheaded the establishment of Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. The Gush now has about 125 families settled in and around Yamit expressly to prevent the Israeli withdrawal. Just last week 25 families moved into the local motel. In addition, they were joined in Yamit by three militant members of the Israeli Knesset, including Geula Cohen, who was the author of the controversial measure passed by the parliament last year that annexed Jerusalem and infuriated the Arabs...
...shocked to discover that the executive gorgon is Winona's lesbian lover. Blaine's wife has an erotic nervous breakdown in Reinhart's bedroom. Genevieve returns to stage a breakdown of her own. Helen Clayton, his supermarket assistant, bolsters Reinhart's flagging sexuality with motel trysts. A neighbor, Edie Mulhouse, as big as the hero himself, writes manic mash notes. Bewildered, Reinhart observes, "Women in general had grown assertive, had their own magazines displaying naked men and relating filthy fantasies, took out loans from banks, tried murderers, and performed brain surgery. For ever so long...
...Miami, it took three weeks to impanel jurors in the trial of four blacks accused of beating three whites to death during last year's rioting, and the pressure was so great that one prospective juror suffered a respiratory seizure. The chosen jury was sequestered in a motel, forbidden to have television or telephones, constantly watched by three police officers. "We walked around like little soldiers," recalls Foreman Dale Dollar, 25, a black who works for Florida Power & Light Co. "It felt like the jury was on trial...
...training programs). Said he: "I've always seen this as a ten-year job. It's time for a change, personally and institutionally." Jordan insisted he has fully recovered from injuries sustained 16 months ago when he was shot by a sniper outside a Fort Wayne, Ind., motel. That incident did not influence his decision, he said, adding: "I'm not leaving the movement. I'm leaving the leadership. I won't run away from civil rights cases as a lawyer, but I won't be at the cutting edge...
...designed for families; there are often limitations on the number of guests per room, and fragile antiques and bric-a-brac do not coexist with small children. But for those who have embraced the B & B way of travel, there is no going back to hotel high-rise and motel monotony...