Word: stones
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...another 16,000 Americans died in the war. By the time the polished black granite of the Viet Nam Memorial was installed in Washington in 1982 -- an act of national reconciliation that took years -- more than 58,000 names of the dead had to be inscribed on the stone...
Citing Turner's versatility as one of her chief strengths, Dwyang noted that she has played roles as diverse as a love-struck novelist in "Romancing the Stone," a mafia assassin in "Prizzi's Honor," and a wholesome small-town teenager in "Peggy Sue Got Married...
...soldiers, the moral dilemma only deepened as the determined government of Shamir ordered yet another military crackdown. "We will increase the punishment so there is a higher price to pay for throwing stones," explained army Chief of Staff Dan Shomron. A new kind of ammunition has been introduced: a round, rubber-clad metal ball advertised as nonlethal but responsible for nearly half a dozen deaths so far this month. Soldiers are permitted to fire supposedly less lethal plastic bullets more readily, including at the backs of fleeing protesters. Stone throwers can be jailed for five years, their parents fined...
Probably the most vocal calls for harsher measures come from the Jewish settlers in the territories, who have increasingly become the main target of Palestinian stones. For months the 70,000 settlers, who claim the West Bank as their biblical right, have complained that the army is failing to protect them. When Shamir started to speak at a memorial service this month for two Israeli victims of the intifadeh, mourners yelled, "You are doing nothing!" Nor did the new battle order satisfy the settlers, who have demanded such extreme reprisals as shooting all stone throwers on sight. "For them...
...tear gas, rubber bullets, plastic bullets. None of it has ended the uprising. And even some Likud members doubt the new measures will do better. "I don't think there is a lot of logic or common sense in shooting a boy when he's already finished throwing his stone and is running away," said Minister Without Portfolio Ehud Olmert...