Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pinpoint accuracy of the attacks was spectacular. At a Friday briefing in Saudi Arabia, Air Force Lieut. General Charles Horner showed videotapes of two laser-guided bombs sailing through the open doors of a bunker in which an Iraqi Scud missile was stored, and a third plopping down the rooftop air shaft of a tall building in Baghdad -- apparently the headquarters of the Iraqi air force -- and then blowing off the top floors. Bombs and missiles also hit other targets around and even in the heart of Baghdad -- Saddam's presidential palace, for one -- while apparently doing little damage...
...EERY-BRIGHT LIGHT of the early November moon shines through the railing of a Windsor St. rooftop in South Boston. Down the street to the right, the water in Dorchester Bay lies painfully still, lit by the moon rays. To the right, a row of three-story houses stretches all the way up hill. On almost everyone of them hangs a red sign bearing the words "Leadership, Senator Bulger...
...headquarters to be booked on misdemeanor charges. (They were all later released.) After the arrests, some of the remaining protesters staged a march down Market Street, one of San Francisco's main thoroughfares. The marchers stalled trolley buses in the middle of the street by pulling the vehicles' rooftop poles away from the overhead wires that supply the vehicles with electric power. Another group briefly occupied a cable car, jostling passengers and posting in the window a placard bearing the slogan SILENCE=DEATH. By week's end police had arrested and released more than 400 demonstrators...
Although the institution will survive, Covenant House will miss Ritter's flair and spirit. Shane Sanders, 20, sold drugs and lived on a rooftop in Harlem until checking into a Covenant House shelter three weeks ago. Says he: "I finally came here because I couldn't stand living on the streets all the time. I find it hard to believe all these things against a man who built Covenant House for 22 years. It hurts a lot of us. Father Bruce is like our father...