Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 10,000 people took advantage of sunny weather last week to attend the town of Lisburn's annual "fun run." The final race, a 13-mile half marathon, had just ended, and the assembled throng was beginning to disperse. Suddenly the peaceful scene was shattered by an explosion that turned a blue van slowing for a traffic light into a fireball. All six passengers, British soldiers who had participated in the races, were killed. The only wonder was that there were no fatalities among onlookers, though eight of them were injured...
...Mainers of Letourneau's Used Auto Parts are not the type to be seen at L.L. Bean. They live in a town that is inappropriately named Miracle City, a collection of raw shacks and trailers hard by an automobile junkyard whose owner, Lucien Letourneau, is a down-East version of Big Daddy. Chute skillfully spot-welds an assemblage of impressive vignettes and character sketches, but she has difficulty hooking up the narrative drive...
Violence nonetheless continues to plague the occupied territories. The Israeli-appointed mayor of the West Bank town of El Bireh was stabbed outside his office last week, presumably by Palestinian radicals who have warned Arab officials against cooperation with the occupiers. A day earlier, a nine-month- old Palestinian girl lost her left eye to an Israeli rubber bullet fired during a clash between soldiers and protesters. Two days later, a Palestinian was killed near Nablus. The six-month toll: more than 200 Palestinians dead, 5,000 wounded...
...large, police and government officials avoided cracking down on the protest. In Cape Town, Minister of Manpower Pieter du Plessis offered to discuss the proposed labor-law amendments with COSATU. He declared that the controversial bill, which bans sympathy walkouts and, according to COSATU, encourages management to sue unions for losses incurred through unlawful strikes, was not in its final form. The conciliatory statement confirmed that despite two years of repression, black labor unions could still make their voices heard...
...told last November about being abducted on a dark road and held in the woods for four days by a gang of white men. Journalists subsequently < turned up discrepancies in the Brawley family's sketchy accounts of Tawana's absence. Witnesses reported seeing her at parties in a nearby town. Neighbors told of Tawana's prior disappearances and of violent conflicts between mother and daughter. Mason, Maddox and Sharpton subsequently tossed out casual accusations that Tawana's rapists included a Dutchess County assistant district attorney, a state trooper and a part-time policeman who shot himself to death days after...