Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Jackson was led, without handcuffs, from the maximum-security Adjustment Center-the prison home of death row inmates on one floor and those deemed incorrigible on another-to a nearby visitors' area for a conference with a lawyer. Before leaving the Adjustment Center, Jackson was made to strip for a thorough "skin search," a regular routine for Adjustment Center inmates. As was usual during such a search, his thick Afro-style hair was briskly rubbed to loosen any contraband that might be concealed there...
Among those who did not cheer four years ago when Israeli troops swept into the Gaza Strip was Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. "Gaza is more of a problem than a gift," said Dayan of the former Egyptian occupied territory, which stretches along the Mediterranean south and west of Israel. Events since then have proved him right. Israel connected Gaza to its electric grid, drummed up potential business and even encouraged tourism to aid the territory. But Gaza's 390,000 residents were-and still are-unremittingly hostile. So far this year seven Israelis and 206 Arabs have been killed...
...Jabalia camp, where this year alone some 40 Arabs have been murdered, presumably by Palestinian guerrillas, 1,500 people have been moved to other quarters. In addition, a 9-ft-high fence topped with barbed wire is being built on the 25-mile eastern perimeter of the Strip...
Mahmoud Slieman Zak, 15, sat in the shade of an old building beside the highway that bisects the strip and gossiped idly with a friend. He was an indifferent pupil in school and wanted only to become a fulltime member of the Palestinian guerrillas for whom he had already been on eleven grenade-tossing missions. That morning Mahmoud fondled a grenade, wondering whether a target would present itself...
...Ryder calls himself "a 20th century faggot" and cruises the Strip, hustling for bread. Nancy Wheeler sits on a mattress and talks about the time she was shooting so heavily that two friends got off on her leavings. City Life keeps himself moving by pushing stuff he gets from a big-time dealer in a silver Mercedes. He is also an informer...