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Rather than risk a mass operation, the Search Block sent a small 17-man contingent to surround the house. They cut off telephones in the area so no lookout could call in a warning. Two armed officers loitered outside the suspect house until a teenager, described as a nephew of Escobar's, appeared at the door with lunch. The two swiftly slipped inside the front door with the youth, while four more police smashed through the carved-wood garage door. They entered shooting...
...scared of me. We're all black people, and they should come talk to me and not just go talking about us. When they go around running over our CDs in demonstrations, that makes me say the f--- with Rev. Butts and motherf --- you all. Wherever I go, kids surround me. The people are with...
Hayden said the site is vulnerable to fires like those that have recently swept southern California. Environmentalists are hoping the site will be used as a visitor center for the wilderness lands that surround...
...said that he particularly enjoyed themagician, whom he helped with two card tricks, andthe hula hoop which was used to surround childrenin giant bubbles
Through it all, Shevardnadze has displayed a steely, pig-headed courage. His wan smile, snowy head and immaculately pressed suits, trademarks of the emissary of international statecraft he once was, offer a jarring contrast to the bearded and increasingly desperate commanders who surround him. With only three hours' sleep a night, he speaks in a voice so hushed that aides must strain to hear him; and yet, when he finds it expedient, the Georgian leader summons a fierce eloquence, all the more surprising in his tattered circumstances. "I am addressing you from besieged Sukhumi not knowing if my words will...