Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adviser John Poindexter, retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and Businessman ! Albert Hakim -- are demanding to see 300,000 pages of classified documents. But a Government team has so far produced only 35,254 pages, leading Presiding Judge Gerhard Gesell to grumble last week, "There is a stone wall being built up between this court and the trial. The responsibility lies with the Attorney General and the White House...
Youngsters are sometimes physically unable to return home. Detroit police frequently find juveniles locked in crack houses by older dealers. The teen dealers sit inside, selling drugs through slots in a wall. "There were bars on the windows, bars on the doors, and they had McDonald's food delivered in," says an Arkansas police chief about a group of local teens recruited to Detroit. "They were virtually held captive...
...figures as Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and, by satellite from Tunis, Palestine Liberation Organization Spokesman Bassam Abu Sharif. The centerpiece was Tuesday night's three-hour-plus "town meeting." Four members of the Israeli Knesset and three Palestinian representatives faced off against one another, symbolically divided by a wooden wall. In the audience were 600 Israelis and 150 Palestinians, who hooted and applauded partisan comments and occasionally asked pointed questions...
...telecast only after special approval came from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A number of potential Palestinian panelists refused to participate. Speaking for the Palestinians, they claimed, is a role that belongs only to the P.L.O. The three representatives who did appear insisted that the wall be set up and avoided even looking at the Israelis for most of the show...
...necessary, would have continued in a room behind the stage without an audience. But the onlookers remained relatively calm. That alone was an accomplishment. "Nothing was said that was new," noted Koppel. "But the very fact that ((Israelis and Palestinians)) sat down, even though there was a wooden wall between them, was a step in the right direction." And, for the sovereign territory of ABC, a television coup...