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...battle for freedom of the press has been one of the most anguishing parts of the story," says Reporter Robert Slater, who is also head of the Foreign Press Association in Israel. The plight of the nervous young Israeli soldiers who have been sent into the camps to quell the disturbances is another. "I know exactly how they feel," says Reporter Ron Ben-Yishai, a military-affairs expert, who serves in the Israeli army. "Very often I experience a strong conflict between my inner feelings as an Israeli and the professional need to see things as they are." The other...
Though Rabin for the first time acknowledged the spontaneous nature of the uprising, he and other officials still hoped to quell the rioting by acting against what officials insist are the "ringleaders" of the violence. Four such men were loaded aboard an Israeli helicopter last week and flown to a mountain road near the town of Hasbeya, in southern Lebanon. There they were handed $50 each and told not to return to their homes. To help the exiles on their way, the soldiers flagged down two Mercedes taxis and paid the drivers to take them away...
Nonetheless, a majority of the American public seemed to agree with the Administration's criticism of Israeli tactics during the riots. In a poll conducted last week for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman,* 50% agreed that the Israelis had used "too much force" to quell the Palestinian protests, while only 23% said Israel had used "about the right amount." Fifty-six percent said Israel had in general treated the Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza unfairly, while only 16% thought they had been handled fairly. And 50% of those polled said the U.S. was right to criticize Israel...
...ordinance is designed to quell these fears, but it suffers from a glaring flaw: nobody is quite certain how to define aggressive begging. The law makes it a misdemeanor to beg with the "intent to intimidate another person into giving money or goods," a formulation that could give pause to a high-pressure used-car salesman. Jerry Sheehan, legislative director for the Washington State chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, predicts that the new law will be challenged in court. If citizens don't understand what a law prohibits, he argues, how can they be expected to abide...
Faced with at least three other rebel groups, Museveni was slow in committing his troops to quell the Holy Spirit Movement. Beginning in October, however, heavily armed government forces went on the offensive, with predictable results. With all the fervor of a fanatic, Alice continued to press-gang new recruits and ordered the death of doubters. "We leave everything in the hands of God," she said three weeks ago, sitting in the dappled shade of a banana grove near Lake Victoria. By the time Mama Alice went into hiding two weeks later, seated on a bicycle that was being pushed...