Word: secret
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Even during one of the holiest times of the year, the bloodshed would not stop in the Holy Land. From secret locations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last week, leaders of the Palestinian uprising issued leaflets addressed to their stone-throwing followers. The order: step up the violence on Land Day, the twelfth anniversary of the deaths of six Israeli Arabs who were killed while they protested Israeli government confiscation of their property. Anticipating trouble, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin took the unprecedented step of sealing off the West Bank and Gaza for three days. He warned of harsher...
...already heard or seen the day's top news and want an extra helping of follow-up stories and features. A presentation videotape indicates that the show will match the newspaper's fondness for personalities, opinion polls and stray factoids (24% of all married people say they have a secret that would destroy their marriage). The show will have its own staff but will draw on the newspaper for ideas and preview some of the paper's next-day stories...
...even as the "Protector of the Land of Snows" sustains all the secret exoticism of that otherworldly kingdom reimagined in the West as Shangri-La, he remains very much a leader in the real world. Since the age of 15, he has been forced to deal with his people's needs against the competing interests of Beijing, Washington and New Delhi. That always inflammable situation reached a kind of climax last fall, when Tibetans rioted in Lhasa, their Chinese rulers killed as many as 32 people, the Dalai Lama held his first major press conference in Dharmsala...
...secret deliberations by the Pulitzer board inevitably prompt gossipy speculation. Several times in recent years thwarted jurors leaked word that their choices for winners had been overturned. The board, which has absolute authority under the Joseph Pulitzer bequest, responded by resurrecting the rule that jurors should not name a favorite among the three recommended finalists. The 16 board members, who serve up to nine years, now include two women, two blacks (one is the chairman, Roger Wilkins) and an Asian American, a response to past charges that it was an all-white, all-male establishmentarian club. Robert Christopher, secretary...
...prime model for those who believe there is a formula for getting the Pulitzer. The paper has scored 13 times since 1972, when Executive Editor Eugene Roberts took over; only the New York Times has done better. Roberts says that those in search of the Inquirer's secret have even asked him what color paper he uses for his submissions. Observers contend that the Inquirer has mastered the art of packaging a prize-minded story. It's a great newspaper, says former Washington Post National Editor Peter Osnos, but "sometimes it seems to me they don't edit...