Word: townes
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Lake Bowl, in the resort town of McCall, belonged to Oliver B. Turner, 49, an accountant in the Idaho highway department. It was seized, along with Turner's four cars, four houses, his Italian restaurant in Boise and Turner himself, after state auditors last month discovered a $484,326.83 discrepancy during an annual audit. Turner is being held on 19 counts of forgery, falsifying documents and obtaining money under false pretenses. If convicted on all counts, he could get 266 years in prison...
Inside the occupied territories, Arab shopkeepers in the town of Nablus closed their stores in symbolic mourning of the 21st anniversary of Israel's founding.-But the fedayeen guerrillas have failed notably to stir the populace to more drastic forms of resistance. In the Gaza Strip, a series of eight grenades exploded in crowded marketplaces, injuring 36 Arabs-evidently terrorist punishment for collaboration with the Israelis...
...been relatively cordial. But newspapers and government officials have bristled over the pace of Rockefeller's mission, which whipped his party through seven countries in eight days, with as little as four hours in one capital. Besides, anti-American demonstrators whoop it up whenever the party hits town. In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, a university student was killed by the police, who say a patrolman's gun went off when he fell with his finger on the trigger. Immediately after the shooting, Rockefeller took to the streets, smiling and shaking hands with crowds of students and ordinary citizens...
More than 100 dissidents from Enfield College of Technology staged a sit-down outside the London borough's civic center to protest a town-council decision to evict a band of gypsies from their caravan site. They were joined by Bernadette Devlin, 22, Britain's angry young Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, who devoured soft ice cream and spouted hard politics. The peppery lass harangued the crowd for about ten minutes, declaring: "If the citizens of England allow the gypsies to be evicted without protest, they cannot go to church and say 'I love my brother...
Toumliline was founded above the Berber town of Azrou in 1952 by a group of French monks who chose the site-about 100 miles southeast of the Moroccan capital of Rabat-because it was suitably remote for contemplation. At first, French colonial authorities tried to persuade the monks to Christianize the area's Berber tribesmen (and thus play them off against Arab nationalists in the cities), but Prior Dom Denis Martin and his monks refused to cooperate. "It would be criminal to convert Moslems," said Dom Denis, explaining that any converts would be outcasts in their own country. Instead...