Word: unites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back room of a stucco house in the hills of Amman, a grave young Palestinian university student squatted on the floor and told eleven friends that he had just joined a guerrilla unit to fight the Israelis. "Any age, any size, either sex," he said. "It makes no difference. They are on my land, and I shall kill them." In his shell shattered villa overlooking the River Jordan, Citrus Grower Raouf Halabi, 50, a graduate of Beirut's American University, reported proudly that his riverfront groves have become a nightly jumping-off place for raiding parties into Israel...
Much as he would like to throw the guerrillas out, Hussein no longer has the power even to hold them in check. Last month he dispatched 20 carloads of troops and police to order a guerrilla unit to leave the refugee camp at Karamah. When it arrived, the column was surrounded by machine-gun-toting commandos, quickly withdrew when the fedayeen commander delivered a matter-of-fact announcement: "You have three minutes to decide whether you leave or die." The rest of the Arab world has taken up the fedayeen with nearly unanimous vigor. Iraq and Syria offer training programs...
Thus far, most American prison reform has focused on the traumas of release. The pacesetting federal system, which includes a no-wall unit at Seagoville, Texas, has institutionalized the "halfway houses" pioneered by religious groups to shelter ex-convicts seeking jobs. Intensive prerelease training at federal centers has cut some graduates' repeater rate by 15%. Texas boasts a remarkable six-week course at a relaxed center near Houston, where civilian volunteers (bankers, auto salesmen, personnel experts) teach felons how to get loans, buy cars, apply for jobs-things many never knew. Result: a repeater rate of 13.9%, down from...
...infield has tightened up into a solid defensive unit. A slimmed-down Joe Foy has picked up his defensive play at third base, and the double play combination of Rico Petrocelli at shortstop and Andrews at second has been one of the bright spots all spring...
...secretary, and fathered a son. Yet last week Jones let it be known that he had had his fill of Sweden. Complaining that "the Swedes have a natural prejudice against black people," he presented himself to the American embassy in Stockholm and asked for transportation back to his unit in West Germany, where he faced the possibility of a court-martial and up to five years in an Army stockade. "The biggest thing," he admitted on arrival in Frankfurt, "is I love America and I don't want to run away from its problems." Three other defectors, who apparently...