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...Nablus, where he operated a food kiosk, by the Syria-based Abu Mousa branch of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The group is hostile to Yasser Arafat's main-line P.L.O. Only two days before the shooting, Bukhris had been detained briefly in Afula for taking part in a protest following the murders of two Israeli school teachers, allegedly by three Arab youths. At both this and the demonstration over Bukhris' death, police clashed with the angry followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane as the protesters shouted, "Kill the murderers of Jews!" and "Death to the terrorists!" Kahane, head of the ultraright...
...staffers promptly voted to stage a one-day strike this week to protest the cancellation. The Association of British Editors called the BBC action "a betrayal of its own best traditions." Declared an editorial in the liberal daily Guardian: "The portents for the future are bleak. A Prime Minister or Home Secretary can denounce something they haven't seen and watch the BBC watchdogs slink to the back of their kennels...
...been released. The death toll since the emergency was declared on July 20 is close to 100. Tension has been steadily increasing, even in areas not covered by the emergency regulations. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate who has emerged as the leading voice of moderate black protest, conducted a mass funeral in Daveyton township and then personally averted an open clash between security forces and hundreds of black mourners...
Black funerals are not just family affairs but community occasions. In the current atmosphere they have become not only forums for black protest but, to much of the white establishment, symbols of disorder and subversion. Under the state of emergency, black South Africans are forbidden to march in funeral processions...
...July 10. A crew member was killed in the blast. The flagship of Greenpeace, the environmental group that opposes nuclear testing and the killing of whales, the vessel was due to lead a flotilla of ships into the waters around Mururoa Atoll, 700 miles southeast of Tahiti, to protest French atomic tests in the area. As the Rainbow Warrior lay prow up in the harbor, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, himself a vocal opponent of nuclear testing, deplored the incident as "a major criminal act with terrorist overtones...