Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eyewitnesses, when the first worshippers emerged after prayers and saw the dismantled speakers, they began to shout "God is great!" The cries incited the crowd of 2,000 leaving the mosque. Scores of men and boys began to pelt the security forces with stones and concrete chunks, hitting a soldier in the head. Says a policeman who was there: "When we saw the officer bleeding, we lost our minds and started shooting." The Palestinian Authority said that militants inside the mosque opened fire first, but eyewitnesses contradicted this claim. By all accounts, the crowd did torch two police vehicles, which...
Some of the members of Arafat's own security forces were demoralized by their comrades' actions. Said a long-faced soldier at a checkpoint in Gaza City: "Today we proved to all the Palestinians that what Hamas says about us is true: that we are an instrument in the hands of the Israelis." Eyewitnesses at the Palestine Mosque told of a police major who, upon seeing his colleagues open fire, tore off his cap and jacket and cried to the crowd, "I am not one of them...
...throng of frustrated Harvard students fought tooth and nail for a Yale College flag. A Yale junior leaned over the side of a Soldier field wall, unzipped his fly and sent a streaming, triumphant message to the cement 20 feet below. A tailgating Harvard graduate poured himself a half-full glass of champagne, sarcastically toasted seven more losing seasons and then downed the load in one gulp...
Harvard's football team will face Yale in what is considered by many to be the biggest athletic event of the year. Kick-off for the game will be 1 p.m. at Soldier Field...
...team will wrap up its fall season this weekend with a match against Yale. The match will precede The Game and will take place at the Harvard pitch in the Soldier's Field Complex...