Word: panning
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...Israel and the Arabs, the militant Muslim fundamentalist group is probably the greatest threat. An acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," Hamas wants nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state, followed by the establishment of an Islamic Palestine as a precursor to a greater pan-Arab union. The organization was born in the misery and despair of the teeming refugee camps of the Gaza Strip five years ago, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh. Within three years the fundamentalists that the Israelis had once allowed to exist as a counterbalance to the P.L.O...
...African Students, a group affiliated with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. In support of a national black teachers' strike, some of its members had initiated a campaign of violence and arson. But the "settlers" remark and a shirt allegedly worn by one of the attackers pointed toward the Pan-Africanist Students' Organization, a wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress, which coined the motto "One Settler, One Bullet," and the police arrested two teenage P.A.S.O. members. When informed of Biehl's death, P.A.S.O. president Tsietsi Telite said unrepentantly, "The youths and students are so angry and frustrated that when they...
...spokesman for the Pan-Africanist Congress in Johannesburg reacted differently, calling the crime an "abominable terrorist act." Cape Town's A.N.C. director dissociated his organization from the murder, and his group's national executive moved to rein in its own members' use of racist rhetoric and inflammatory slogans. As if to underscore the emptiness of such pledges, gunmen firing assault rifles on Friday wounded eight people -- whites and mixed-race -- traveling by luxury-bus from Cape Town to Johannesburg...
...CALLS HIS RANCH NEVERLAND. HE surrounds himself with young boys. He speaks in a child's whisper. He seems to float onstage. And he doesn't want to grow up. Michael Jackson has identified so closely with Peter Pan that for years he hoped to star in a Steven Spielberg film version of the James M. Barrie play. It might have been the first extraterrestrial autobiography...
...Jackson's profound weirdness -- not just the glove or the seaweed hair striping his face but the blanched skin, the pained eyes, the tremulous soul -- hinted that Pan was the wrong role for him. Wasn't Jackson really one of the Lost Boys, stranded between childhood and adolescence, loved by the public yet feeling caged and abandoned, and searching, groping for the Edenic innocence he believed was any child's birthright...