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...population into submission. Said Shamir: "Our task now is to re-create the barrier of fear between Palestinians and the Israeli military, and once again put the fear of death into the Arabs of the areas so as to deter them from attacking us anymore." Until a renewed outburst of protests in the West Bank and Gaza at week's end that, according to Arab sources, left 15 injured by live ammunition as well as rubber bullets, the policy had brought a measure of uneasy calm to the occupied territories. Rabin might well argue that broken bones are preferable...
...night, James set or tied six individual highs for the season. In addition to his 34-point outburst, James set a team high for field goal attempts (26) and free throws made and attempted (11-for-11) in a game this season...
...Khalis' outburst was also a pointed reply to earlier remarks by Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who has allowed the U.S.-supplied rebels to operate from his territory. In an interview with the New York Times, Zia said an interim government including members of the Soviet-backed ruling party would be "not much of a price to pay in my opinion." Khalis sought to make it clear that the rebels, not Zia, would be the judge of any such concessions...
Television made Ollie North a celebrity. Journalists had cast him as a heavy in the Iran-contra scandal, but his bravura performance as a witness -- emotional, defiant, patriotic -- led to a national outburst of Olliemania. McCarthy, Agnew and North were quite dissimilar in deeds and in character, but of each it could be said that journalists covering him believed that with time and further acquaintance people would think less of him. That also seems to be the conviction of most journalists who cover Gary Hart...
...agreeing to give interviews not just to try to search for the truth, to prod each other to serious thinking, but to drive the politician into a corner." He then instructed the reporters, like a scolding schoolmaster, to "think over this part of my talk." The outburst, like his brusque answers to most of the questions that followed, revealed that glasnost has definite limits...