Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well after the noon hour in the sprawling urban slum where 22-year-old Mali lives. Clothes hang on a nearby line, and small children play in the dusty path. Squatting on a doorstep, Mali (a pseudonym) lifts her scarred right arm and feels for a usable vein. No one seems to notice as she grips one end of a yellow plastic cord in her teeth and winds the other end tightly around her arm, readying it for the needle. It could be the South Bronx, East Los Angeles, Amsterdam or London-the traditional dumping grounds for Asia...
...offer proved to be too little, too late. Around noon the next day, Lebanese Army troops and Amal militiamen clashed along the city's "green line," which divides Christian East Beirut from the mainly Muslim western sector. According to Amal leaders, the battle began when they discovered that the army was beefing up its forces in West Beirut with a brigade dominated by the members of the Christian Phalange, a right-wing militia that the Shi'ites regard as their bitter enemy. Yet Amal's rapid response suggested that the attack had been well planned...
...women's track v. Princeton and Yale, 12 noon. Gordon Indoor Track...
...black and red bicycle with gold strips was reported taken from the Peabody Terrace bicycle cage between noon on Feb 9 and noon last Friday. It was valued...
...swimming v. Penn, 12 noon. Blodgett Pool...