Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...near Jenin, a band of Arab youths, armed with knives and homemade firebombs, attacked an Israeli army patrol. The soldiers opened fire, wounding three Arabs. Elsewhere, three soldiers were injured in stoning incidents, and a member of a village council in the Hebron area was wounded slightly when a pipe bomb exploded beneath his car. Overall, however, a measure of normality seemed to be returning to the West Bank. The towns of Ramallah and Nablus remained heavily guarded by Israeli troops, but the strike that had closed down most stores a week earlier was gradually ending...
...like to have some milk and cookies. This night I had some low-fat milk, and I mixed it with some pasteurized, and I dipped the cookie in, and ..." Then comes the confession: "Ten million mothers freebase-and blow up!" And then, the memory of his favorite coke pipe, talking soothing self-destruction to him: "Me 'n' you're just gonna hang out in this room together. We'll talk it out." And the futile attempts of friends like Actor Jim Brown, and even some of his drug suppliers, to save him from his habit...
PRYOR BECOMES MOST unclear during the most serious part of the movie. He devotes the last half hour of his act to his free basing accident and the details of his cocaine addiction. He tells the story, however, as he would any other routine, showing how the pipe he used to smoke the drug ruled his life and then how he rejected the help of concerned friends. Pryor mixes serious judgments ("If you have been free basing longer than two weeks, you are a junkie") with lighter observations ("Of all the people free basing, have you ever heard of anybody...
Bomb squad experts speculated that the blast may have been caused by a small "pipe-bomb," said Cambridge Sgt. Irwin Nolan. He added that with a pipe-type bomb, gun-powder is placed inside a metal cylinder and left with a detonating device at the site of the planned explosion...
...before he became Surgeon General last year, says that the Reagan Administration backs the report and is committed to alert people to the hazards of smoking. In that effort he is counting mostly on the public's common sense. Says he: "If I were a smoker of a pipe, cigar or cigarette and were reasonably intelligent and had read this report, I would long since have quit." Indeed, Koop once did smoke a pipe, but, setting a good example, he gave it up ten years ago. -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by Jeanne Saddler/Washington and Nancy Pierce Williamson/New York