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...Lebanon, and nobody is betting on how long the latest one will last. The status of the forces has not changed. The only difference is that the Israelis are back in their own country. But they can cross the frontier again any time they think it necessary. No trooper on either the Christian or the Palestinian side is packing his gear and pulling...
Womack plays a state trooper who picks up Starkweather (called Carruthers in the movie) after local authorities have captured the fugitive. He has three lines: "Now we go," which he says to Carruthers as they board an airplane; "State," in answer to a question about where he got his hat; and "You're quite an individual, Kit," as they sit down on the plane...
Schindler, 51, who calls himself a moderate but "not a political Zionist," fled Nazi Germany when he was twelve. He earned a Purple Heart as a ski trooper in World War II and graduated from New York's City College before becoming a Reform rabbi. Since 1973 he has been president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, an umbrella group for 750 Reform temples that count a membership...
...memories were sometimes hard to still. In Paracuellos de Jarama, a small pueblo on the outskirts of Madrid that gained infamy during the civil war when Republican forces shot hundreds of Nationalist prisoners there, the local voting monitor politely ushered a trooper of the still feared Civil Guard out of the schoolroom polling station. "He has a gun, and he does not belong here," said one of the party observers behind...
...night wore on, the number of lawmen prowling the mountains rose to 150. Five vanloads arrived carrying teams of specially trained state trooper SWAT teams. At the direction of Attorney General Bell, who stayed in close contact with the President, the FBI took charge of the case, and 75 agents moved quickly into the area. The FBI ordered in a special helicopter armed with an infra-red sensing device; it began roaming the area, hunting for minute changes in temperature on the forest floor that might be caused by the presence of men. In all, five helicopters flew over...