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...usual, even the identity and motivation of the terrorists involved were uncertain, though there was little doubt that they were Palestinian. One of the gunmen shouted to journalists as he was led away by police, "I am a Palestinian commando!" But in the crazy-quilt language of contemporary terrorism, that still left a lot unexplained. Early in the course of the hijacking, an anonymous Arab called a Western news agency office in Nicosia, Cyprus, and claimed responsibility for the Libyan Revolutionary Cells, a previously unknown group. Denials came almost instantaneously from Radio Tripoli and from Gaddafi, who was attending...
...path. "I may go into a town to write about a mean billy goat in someone's yard," he says, "and end up writing about an old goat at town hall." Such reflections come naturally to the Alabama-born Jaynes, who remains very much the Southerner. Yet his patchwork-quilt collection of pieces covers every section of the nation. Among the subjects that have piqued his interest are the loon preservationists in New Hampshire, a restaurant in Barrow, Alaska, that is the only place to find Mexican food in the Arctic Circle, and an entrepreneur in Des Moines who sells...
Part of the problem may be inseparable from what makes the Del-Lords so distinctive: an insistence on passion when a lot of rock has slipped into neutral, a glorification of rough-and-tumble spirit when much of the Top Ten has all the aggression of a goose-down quilt. "Through the '70s, people became isolated," Kempner reflects. "They became isolated from their music, from their government. We hark back to an older tradition. We have something to say to the people who listen...
...kind. * An immigrant from almost any country can depend on finding transplanted countrymen in the city. But there is also something appealing, it seems, about joining the larger swarm of immigrants in New York, of being on a patch that is in turn part of a patchwork quilt. Where practically everyone is an alien, no one is alien. "There is a feeling of cordiality," says Anand Mohan, a Queens College politics professor from India, "and, for us, a satisfaction in knowing that as immigrants in this city, we are not alone...
Over the years, his activities began to form a patchwork quilt of legend and rumor. He was reported to have masterminded a heroin-trafficking ring in Paraguay; he was said to have been Stroessner's personal physician, as well as the dictator's special adviser in a genocidal campaign against Paraguay's Ache Indians. Like some dark spirit, he seemed to be everywhere at once, often hidden behind sunglasses; he was sighted in Bolivia, Uruguay and Chile, and in the jungles of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay...