Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through it all, the families of both hostages and captives held vigils near the prisons in an uneasy symbiosis of suffering. The tension between the two groups seemed most acute in Oakdale, a small rural town of 7,200. On Thanksgiving Day, a group of Cuban women made a peace offering to a congregation of hostage families who had gathered in a church hall: a baked turkey adorned with a Cuban and an American flag. Though a few polite hugs * were exchanged, the gesture failed to relieve the resentment and anxiety. "I'll tell you one thing," muttered a sympathizer...
...Salvador, finding refuge in an unnamed foreign country for seven years. Then, two weeks ago, he returned, apparently under a guarantee of immunity from prosecution. Saravia had also fled abroad. One night last week in Miami, Metro-Dade County police knocked on the door of his rented Kendall town house and lured him outside by claiming that his van had been involved in a hit-and-run accident. They were suddenly joined by U.S. marshals and immigration agents, who arrested him on a charge of overstaying his tourist visa. Since Garay had implicated him just hours before, the marshals felt...
...glider whirred its way three miles into Israel. Israeli soldiers posted in south Lebanon heard the strange vehicle, but the helicopter gunships dispatched to identify the intruder could not find it. Finally, the hang glider landed with a thud in a field of thistles just north of the Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona...
With success came creature comforts. Sondheim splurged in 1960 and bought a Manhattan town house after the movie sale of Gypsy. He still lives there, in an East Side enclave of houses that share a sprawling back garden with low brick walls, small fountains and mossy enclosures. Katharine Hepburn resides next door, but they did not meet until nearly a decade after he moved in. "I was up one night at about 3, pounding on the piano, writing The Ladies Who Lunch for Company, when I heard this banging on the garden door. There she was, in a babushka...
...blue-collar town is unfazed by the prospect of a Russian invasion. "People will work with the Soviets as long as we get the same cooperation in return," says Insurance Broker Chick Paris. That is the plan. The new agreement will allow an equal number of American inspectors to live in the Soviet city of Votkinsk, west of the Ural Mountains, where SS-20 missiles have been assembled...