Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday, the time shortly after noon. Prayer services had just ended at the al-Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, one of the holiest sites for both Islam and Judaism. As several hundred young men streamed out of the mosque, the shouts began. "There is no God but Allah!" "Allah is great!" The banned red-black-and-green Palestinian flag was raised, and Israeli and American banners burned. A thousand Israeli police, stationed there in case trouble broke out, began firing tear gas to disperse the crowd. But they were driven back by a shower of rocks and broken...
...next two hours police chased the agile, cursing demonstrators around the 30-acre Temple Mount and through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem's Old City. Protesters, tourists and the police themselves choked on the cloud of tear gas that enshrouded the golden Dome of the Rock, the ciborium that stands on the site from which the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven on a white horse. At one point, after a police officer was beaten, his comrades chased a group of demonstrators into al-Aqsa mosque itself, normally off limits to any military personnel. The fearsome...
...kitchen fire broke out late Monday night at Elsie's on Mount Auburn Street and the managers of the Harvard Square landmark yesterday closed the sandwich shop for remodeling...
...could not get on any training course." The R.U.C. keeps in constant contact with the Garda Siochana, the police force of the Irish Republic. "There used to be a lot of ambivalence from Dublin about terrorism," says a high-ranking R.U.C. officer. "But not anymore." Says French: "If we mount an operation, they will block escape routes on their side. If we want their help...
Following some of the worst rioting in its occupied territories in 20 years, the army dispenses quick justice in military courts and beefs up its patrols. -- Gulf nations meet to coordinate defense in the widening tanker war. -- Soviet and Afghan troops mount a desperate effort to save the strategic town of Khost from a rebel siege. -- Northern Ireland ends another year of sectarian strife...