Word: predawn
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...nifty Love Has a Mind of Its Own). To ensure, however, that the genius has not gone soft of heart or of social conscience, he finishes up with a dextrous cover of Still Crazy After All These Years. As he skims over Paul Simon's elegant lines of predawn rumination, Charles sounds bluesy and bemused, crazy with a vengeance and a purpose. "Yeah, baby," he growls, "you got me by your little finger," and so he's got us, just the same. Same as ever...
...meal of brown gruel before the day is over. For four weeks now they have been been arriving at the rate of 150 to 200 a day from villages as far as 125 miles away, camping overnight in abandoned huts and making their way to the center in the predawn hours through the wide, dusty streets...
Allegations of two-tiered justice rose immediately after the predawn arrest of the first three suspects. L.A. County District Attorney Ira Reiner was criticized for political "grandstanding" a week before the primary elections for arraigning the four on nearly 40 charges, including attempted murder. Because of what their attorneys have termed "inflated" and unfounded charges, bail was set at $500,000 to $580,000 for three of them. All four of the original defendants, plus the fifth arrested last month, remain in custody awaiting trial. Though no trial date has been set, preliminary hearings will be held for all five...
...predawn hit, gunmen with silencers shot P.L.O. official Atef Bseiso, 44, outside his Paris hotel. Bseiso was on a secret mission to meet with French intelligence agents to discuss security matters. The killers' efficiency led to rumors of secret-service involvement -- not only Israeli but French as well. Also suspected was Abu Nidal, the Palestinian extremist believed responsible for other P.L.O. killings, though his group denied involvement...
...abortion-rights troops also caught Operation Rescue by surprise. Some of them, including members of the Feminist Majority Foundation, showed up a month ago to set up a secret command center, train people to defend the clinics with predawn human barricades, and monitor through a network of walkie-talkies and cellular telephones every move of the antiabortion forces. Last week the abortion-rights contingent of 500 matched Operation Rescue's body for body...