Word: suburb
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...times bloodshed seemed to be war-torn Lebanon's only certainty. A powerful car bomb killed 15 people and injured 80 in a suburb of Muslim West Beirut as the week began. The moderate Shi'ite Amal militia blamed the blast on the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was driven out of Beirut during the 1982 Israeli invasion, and is now trying to make a comeback. Battles raged throughout the week between Amal militiamen and Palestinian fighters. In Beirut a relentless Amal blockade of Palestinian camps forced thousands of starving residents to adopt extreme measures to feed themselves...
...afraid of the system, that I had a moral right to know." Poring over old newspapers with one of her other four children, she found articles that made her suspicious about her son's death. She took her case to police in the town of White Bear Lake, a suburb of St. Paul. After a medical examiner and other experts scrutinized Dennis' autopsy report, they determined that the boy had been beaten to death. Late last month Dennis' adoptive mother, Lois Jurgens, 61, was indicted for killing the child...
...been shot and critically wounded while trying to escape. Later the same day, however, two Beirut taxi drivers, both of whom knew Waite by sight, said they were certain they had seen him, surrounded by a band of armed men, walking on a street in a southern Beirut suburb and waving to passersby. Still later ash-Shiraa, the Lebanese newspaper that first broke the story of the secret talks between Iran and the U.S., reported that Waite was likely to be released sometime this week. Lebanese Leader Nabih Berri made a similar predication. But for the moment, the Anglican envoy...
...voucher system is what enabled Angela Henderson, 26, her husband Chris and two children to move last April from an apartment complex in Bloomington, Minn., to a duplex in Brooklyn Park, a Minneapolis suburb of ranch-style houses. The family is thrilled with the extra space and privacy. "You're not having all those people above and underneath you and across from you," says Henderson. "I can go and do the wash when I want to instead of waiting. It's more like a home." In Bloomington the Hendersons paid $435 a month for their apartment. In Brooklyn Park...
BEIRUT, Lebanon--Two taxi drivers said they saw missing hostage negotiator Terry Waite walking yesterday in a southern Beirut suburb with an escort of about 10 gunmen and four turbaned Shiite Moslem sheiks...