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...consists of perhaps 500 youths. Three years ago, in a clumsy attempt to overthrow Sadat's "atheistic" regime, Moustafa's followers attacked the Egyptian Technical Military Academy at Heliopolis and provoked a battle with guards in which eleven people died and 27 were wounded. A year later townsmen of the Nile Valley village of Minya complained that the group was brainwashing their daughters and carrying them off as concubines. One young girl was even persuaded by the group to commit suicide as an atonement for her alleged sins...
...year-old bachelor farmer, a teen-age couple, a well-to-do industrialist, his wife and his maid, and a traveling salesman. The epidemic of shootings turned Lincoln into a horrified city under siege. People were afraid to go to work or even take out the garbage. Some townsmen were armed and deputized to patrol the streets. Eventually authorities nabbed the two desperadoes in Wyoming...
...human interdependence. Majority opinion not only dominated political decision making, but controlled most public and much private conduct as well. This is why there was such frequent resort to humiliation as a penalty. Stocks, pillory, and tar and feathers were effective because the opinion of one's townsmen was so important. The colonists paid a price for government by communal consensus: there was not much privacy, and what we now regard as liberties of conscience often existed only at the pleasure of public opinion...
...government version of what happened. Cabled TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff, who visited Sakhnin the day after the shootings: "The villagers claim that the night before the planned strike, about 300 soldiers drove into Sakhnin, firing rifles and machine guns into the air and then into houses. The townsmen insist that they set up roadblocks to keep the soldiers out of the village; when soldiers tried to enter homes, the villagers pelted them with stones. In response the government clamped curfews on Sakhnin and two neighboring communities, the first time that curfews had ever been imposed within Israeli Arab...
Schessler and other townsmen may soon be able to breathe easier. City fathers have requested a federal grant to help build a new sewage treatment plant. If they get it, water from the lagoons will be pumped daily into the plant in the hope of eliminating the smell...