Word: rocks
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Police arrested more than 30 Moslem worshipers in the compound of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosques on Temple Mount, which is sacred to both Moslems and Jews. The hill is known in Arabic as Harim es-Sharif, or Noble Enclosure...
...burgeoning crack trade has lately made such groups as the Crips even more willing to kill for the sake of greater profits. Children of the underclass, weaned on violence and despair, have become bloodthirsty entrepreneurs. Some have made small fortunes marketing the cheap, explosive cocaine derivative -- known as "rock" in L.A. -- while settling business differences with state-of-the-art firearms. Many more have wound up in prison or the graveyard...
Since February, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates has waged an intensive campaign against the crack-dealing street gangs. A task force of 100 has been busting 20 gang members a day and has raided 43 rock houses. But Good Friday made those efforts seem futile. While the carnage on Raymond Avenue took place, 180 police officers stood for roll call at a command center less than a mile away...
Then it came -- the shriek of a siren so loud it silenced even the crowd's mocking roar. Arthur reacted like so many others: he turned into a rock. His eyes glazed, his mouth opened, his hand gripping the microphone like a cigar- store Indian, the young man needed a jolt to make his feet carry him to safety. In the wings, Cooper shrugged. Since his siren had not worked, he had no choice but to send in the clown...
...another development yesterday, an Israeli newspaper said an army inquiry into the killing of a Jewish settler girl in the West Bank village of Beita last week indirectly would blame the shooting on the Jewish guard Roman Aldubi, who was knocked out by a rock during the melee and remains hospitalized...