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...bitterness and his fear. As the young man chain-smokes acrid Club cigarettes and glances nervously at passersby in an East Berlin hotel lobby, he notes that common citizens are now policing the former Stasis. Many tradesmen refuse service to ex-agents. Gasoline stations have posted signs denying them petrol, and job notices often specify that dismissed Stasis need not apply. When three ex-agents showed up at an East Berlin slaughterhouse in search of jobs, workmen locked them in a storage refrigerator for two hours. The Stasis no longer feel safe even in their own homes. "My friends have...
...involvement even of the Israeli Arabs. We know that the leaders who are creating this environment of terror are living and acting in Jerusalem. It's fewer than 50 people. If I add all the others around them, maybe 150 people. If cars and buses were attacked daily by petrol bombs or stones for 16 months in Washington, could you imagine it would be tolerated? It would not, because in the name of democracy, to preserve democracy, steps would be taken. The terrorist leaders here are not Israeli ) citizens. What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists...
...plane dropping, nose down, straight into the ground." Peter O'Brien was driving by on the A74 highway. "The whole sky lit up as though it was daylight," he said later. "The car behind me was engulfed in flames, and houses were suddenly on fire, as if petrol had been sprayed over them. It was an incredible inferno." Recalled truck driver John McGuinness: "I'm sure the plane was on fire before it crashed. It looked like a red sunset...
...seen cooperating with OPEC were showing up and making conciliatory gestures. A Chinese official was there, chatting with his counterpart from Mexico during a photo session. An oil-patch emissary from Texas mingled on the sidelines with ministers from Malaysia and other countries. Even an observer from the petrol-pumping province of Alberta, Canada, joined the unique assemblage...
Wazir's picture appears on leaflets ordering Palestinians to attack with "stones, petrol bombs, metal balls and slingshots" to avenge his death...