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...Ouzai, at the south end of Beirut. It unaccountably blew up the house of the village headman. He escaped, but two of his brothers were shot to death when they rushed out of their houses to see what had happened. Beyond the village, the Israelis coolly set up a roadblock on the coastal highway and then blew up a small factory suspected of supplying explosives to Palestinian terrorists. Three Syrians who ran the factory were killed in the blast. The other two commando contingents struck at the northeast industrial neighborhood of Doura, where they blasted a single-story machine shop...
...Knee in the final days before the accord was not quite so easy. Three separate road-blocks sprawled across Big Foot Trail, two of them manned by Indians who opposed each other. The Oglala Tribal Council maintained the outermost checkpoint, while the militant American Indian Movement handled the innermost roadblock. AIM demanded the ouster of Richard Wilson, the Oglala Tribal president. It was fitting that the U.S. government roadblock stood between the two Indian checkpoints, serving both symbolically and realistically as a buffer zone...
March 26: Tribal Council roadblock goes up; press barred from the village; U.S. marshal shot in the chest, resulting in cease-fire the next...
Wilson did, however, throw up his roadblock two weeks ago to prevent the press from entering Wounded Knee. The same day, the TV networks, concerned about the tense situation created by the shooting of a U.S. marshal, vacated the village for the first time since the occupation began...
...three cars past 'Fort Wilson' [the fortified BIA building]," Camp, a tall, big-boned Oklahoma Cherokee, said. "We arrived about 45 minutes before the caravan. We took a pickup truck that belonged to Jack Czywczynski, the operator of the museum, and placed it in the road for a roadblock...