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...took you months ago for an educated man," the Rev. Cooper tells Keene, correctly. For the new settler has kept quiet about his Harvard education and the Protestant flock he once ministered to in Blue Hill, Me. The loss of his wife, whom he did not love, cost him a creed that he did not trust: "In whisky veritas. When Abby died, I was left alone with the Juvenal. Fearing I had been delivered into Satan's hands, I denied my faith rather than face God's wrath." He confesses to himself: "Within a year, I learned I could live...
...Israelis struggled to disengage from southern Lebanon, they were also facing new unrest on the West Bank, where turmoil reached its worst levels in three years. In Ramallah, an Israeli settler was shot to death while shopping in the open-air market. The shooting prompted the Israeli army to impose a curfew on the town and on nearby El Bireh. To protest the death, the Jewish settlers' council decided to establish an illegal settlement on an isolated hilltop northwest of Ramallah. Their bulldozers and tractors were leveling the site when Israeli soldiers arrived. Acting on orders from Defense Minister Yitzhak...
...latest in a series of sporadic disturbances over the past two months began on Jan. 11, when a 17-year-old French settler was killed, allegedly by Kanak militants. The shooting brought a mob of 1,500, mainly made up of caldoches, into the streets of Noumea, where they hurled rocks and bottles at police. Tensions increased the next day when at least 100 gendarmes surrounded a farmhouse near La Foa, 55 miles northwest of the capital. There, Eloi Machoro, a leader of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, a militant Separatist party, and 50 of his followers were gathered...
Just when the French Pacific island territory seemed finally to be edging toward independence, violence erupted. Once again a sudden burst of fury set New Caledonia's French settlers (caldoches) against the native Melanesians (Kanaks), who are struggling for independence after 131 years of French rule. Sporadic clashes between the two groups have resulted in 18 killings over the past two months. The latest outbreak was sparked by the shooting death of a 17-year-old French settler some 40 miles northwest of the capital, Noumea. Within only a few hours, more than 1,000 people, most of them caldoches...
...Aviv newspaper, showed that while 43% backed a peace agreement in which Jordan conceded some West Bank territory, 41% were opposed to giving up any land whatsoever. "Those who call themselves Palestinian Arabs should be grateful that we permit them to live in our homeland," says a West Bank settler. "They belong in the Arab nation located in the rest of the Middle East. Why don't they leave us alone...