Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...animosities within the P.L.O. were tragically reflected last week in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. On Wednesday, pro-Arafat and anti-Arafat Palestinian students held noisy rallies at Bir Zeit University, northeast of Jerusalem. After the demonstration, some of the students began stoning cars; Israeli soldiers pushed the students back onto the campus. The Palestinians threw rocks at the Israelis, who responded with tear gas. An Israeli army spokesman said that the soldiers had to fire to "extricate themselves" from the crowd, but a television clip showed one soldier at the head of a squad approach...
...liven it up with some clever falls I devised for myself, including somersaults when the mines and bullets were near misses." By the time the sequence had been reshot 15 times, however, the repeated falls had left her with a swollen ankle and hip. The scene ended with a soldier stealing a loaf of bread from Nelligan, who found herself nearly as worn out as her character might have been. "I was so bruised that every part of me hurt," says she. "They could have taken whatever they liked...
...detachment as real as the thousands of miles between him and his family in Dorset. Writing about other travel writers distances him from his own encounters on the trail. By ranking subjectivity above literal facts, he finally removes himself to that lonely height where the artist, not the soldier-adventurer, is hero. "Writing the book," he thinks before catching the train home. "That was the real journey...
...separatists, no matter how extreme. But the moderates must lead the way into coming to terms with a changing society. The Sikh community must define for themselves what constitutes being a Sikh in the here and now and not in some romanticized and dangerous notion of seventeeth-century Sikh soldier-saints...
...Yale, heading into the strong Soldier's Field winds in the first half, surprised its hosts by scoring first to forge ahead...