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...also tried Room 13, the student volunteer counseling program. It was not really the fault of the guy on duty that he couldn't understand my unhappiness here, or that he was as thick as a table. He meant well...
...version, claiming it was faked by the British in order to give them a pleasant view of the port of Aqaba, now part of Jordan. In fact, say the Israelis, the British blurred the issue quite literally by marking the border on the 1915 map with a very thick pencil. But if the Israelis had a claim to Taba, reply the Egyptians, why did they make no attempt to retain it when they overran and then withdrew from the Sinai following the 1948 and 1956 wars? Papouchado favors a Solomonic solution, suggesting that the two countries maintain joint control...
John Garang is seated in a dry riverbed, under the sweeping branches of an acacia tree. Around his belt, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), American-educated leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) wears a knife and a 9-mm automatic pistol; his thick hands are clasped around the stock and barrel of a Hungarian-made AKM assault rifle, private serial number 000. Suddenly, the stillness is broken by the shouts of 1,000 of Garang's guerrillas passing on their way to battle at nearby Kapoeta, a southern Sudanese town 140 miles east...
Michael Pallamary was surveying a construction site in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon last month when he noticed smoke pouring from an apartment house across the street. Vaulting a fence, Pallamary, 32, rushed into the building and, despite thick smoke and intense heat, pounded on doors to alert some 30 occupants. Then he tried unsuccessfully to rescue Tenant Tim Hurley, 19. Finally Pallamary collapsed. When he left the hospital two days later, he was handed a city paramedic bill for $189.93 -- including a 50% surcharge because he lives out of town...
...heads. Along the way, dead cows and birds dotted the hills. Some refugees tucked cotton in their nostrils to dampen the sickening stench of decomposing animals. The surviving white Brahman cattle lumbered dumbly at the sides of the columns, responding sleepily to the harried urgings of herdsmen carrying long, thick sticks...