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...girl's death was the first of an Israeli civilian in the violence that has swept the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip since December 8. At least 140 Arabs have died, according to U.N. figures, and one Israeli soldier has been killed...
...Hundred Years of Solitude, and thank goodness for that. Instead, Garcia Marquez, 60, * offers a spacious mirror image of the novel that made him famous. This time out, surface events largely conform to the dictates of plausibility. No one ascends bodily into heaven; the famous plague of insomnia that swept through Solitude here becomes literal, recurrent ravages of cholera morbus. The bizarre and outlandish are relegated to the domain of private lives, to characters who must construct for themselves elaborate fictions to follow in order to stand the shocks and tedium of being alive...
...protests, the strongman faced a revolt by some officers of the once unswervingly loyal Panamanian Defense Forces. The rebellion erupted shortly after dawn last Wednesday: residents living near Noriega's Panama City headquarters heard the crack of gunfire from inside the iron-gated compound. Reports of a coup quickly swept the capital. The rumors grew until 9:30 a.m., when Noriega appeared at a window and waved. Wearing a white guayabera sport shirt, the general later ventured out of the building to talk with reporters. Asked what the gunfire had been about, he pressed his fingers to his lips...
...described in press reports last week, the raid, said to have cost $100,000, began on a January morning when Mahone and one of her troopers flagged down a school bus in the Jordanian town of Jerash. While he pinned the driver to his seat, Mahone swept her child off the bus. The raiders fled by car and crossed into Israeli-occupied territory. Maternal mission accomplished...
...Crimson crews travel to Hanover, N.H. on April 16 to take on Dartmouth and M.I.T. for the Biglin Bowl, which the lightweights have swept the last three years in succession...