Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hartz and his companions escaped unscratched from the Syrian artillery barrage. But the gripping vignette dramatized the random dangers and constant frustrations involved in covering the Arab-Israeli war. Correspondents frequently can get close enough to the fighting to die. But except for Israeli reporters, who are allowed to follow the army, journalists generally have been denied the kind of front-line access that is necessary for the deep, intimate reportage that was almost routine in Viet Nam. The cost in blood has already been high. Three Israeli newsmen have been killed, including Radio Israel's Senior Producer Rafi...
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...Boswell, A Bad Man and The Dick Gibson Show, Stanley Elkin demonstrated lavish verbal and comic gifts, a generosity of spirit and a talent for staging extravaganzas of the absurd. If his plots lurched and his ideas went off like random flares, Elkin's characters commanded attention because of the manic way they acted out their necessities...
...bumblers), from the KGB (more humane and more efficiently murderous), and from East Germany. Mercader appears to work with the Russians-but possibly has become a no-longer-useful and hence disposable double agent for them. Amsterdam is filled with other people who seem to bounce off him at random, including a henpecked French intellectual and an American writer at work on a screenplay about Trotsky. Over the novel hovers a controlling symbol, the reiterated memory of the ten minutes in the sunlit, walled garden in Mexico in 1939 when Trotsky was murdered with an Alpine pick. Ramon Mercader...
Jordan's King Hussein may reasonably feel confident about being able to handle the fedayeen. Others have good reason to fear their random outbursts of terrorism. Among the guerrillas' priority targets are Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel at the rate of 30,000 a year. Twice this year fedayeen groups set out to attack Schönau Castle in Vienna where the refugees, who travel from Russia to Austria by train, are quartered midway in their exodus. Both times the attackers were spotted beforehand and arrested. Two months ago, another terrorist band killed four innocent travelers at Athens...