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...Look!" says Private Dror, his eyes nervously scanning the street. "There are no youngsters over twelve in sight. Hell, where have they disappeared to?" The five Israeli soldiers from the Nahal unit quickly slip down a narrow alley. Four Palestinian youths peek briefly from between two houses. Seconds later, a hailstorm of stones and metal pieces pelts the patrol. Hugging the walls, the unit breaks apart. When it reassembles, Dror, 20, is breathless. Three masked men had hit him with rocks. "The bastards knew very well I couldn't do anything to them," he mutters to TIME...
...have been enlarged to accommodate Caucasian visitors. Before the group descends, Hai recites the tunnel dwellers' motto: "When you walk without footmarks, when you talk without a sound, when you cook without smoke, that is how you survive." After a few -- interminable -- minutes most visitors are eager for a peek at the sky. "I see the light at the end of the tunnel," says Kevin McKiernan, 43, of Santa Barbara, sardonically echoing the phrase from two decades earlier that became a derisive wartime cliche. As the van pulls away from the site, children born a decade after the last...
...eyes," he decided during 20 years as a California judge. When a driver claims his car couldn't go over 35 m.p.h., his Honor-on-the-spot takes it out for a spin. What did a policeman see through the keyhole? To find out, Wapner goes and takes a peek. This volume hardly qualifies as a scholarly treatise (Chapter 10 is titled "Under ( the Robes"). But readers seeking Wapner's piquant observations and offbeat tales of life in the legal lane won't sue for failure to deliver...
Some editors feared that the media's pursuit of Hart's private life might become as much an issue as his adulteries. As Hart put it in a speech at Yale, "How far are we prepared to go as a society to peek into areas hitherto precluded...
...transfer to the U.S.S.R. of the high-tech electronics used in spacecraft, but no one seems willing to accept Soviet assurances. Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham spoke to the Soviet group and later dismissed the proposal. Said he: "We'd be naive to think they're not going to peek under the covers to look at our hardware...