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...DEATH! proclaimed the posters that appeared all over Buenos Aires last week. Above that stark message was the image of a bullet-riddled Union Jack. Beneath it, in fine print, was the English inscription, "I'm sorry." To the right, a bold warning: "We knew how to give our lives for our Malvinas. And now we will know how to kill whoever tries to take them away from...
...Jerusalem shooting incident was in effect for a day in much of the Arab world and for the rest of the week in most of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. By the end of the week, at least 70 Palestinians had been wounded by Israeli bullets; four Israeli soldiers and twelve civilians had been injured by Arab stones. In Gaza, a seven-year-old boy died from the effects of an Israeli bullet wound in his stomach. In Jerusalem, a five-year-old Arab girl was recovering from surgery after doctors removed an Israeli bullet from...
...Bite the Bullet...
Life in the village is like the tale behind the three bullet holes in the wooden door-terrifying, mysterious, obscured by fear. When the shooting began, eight members of the Ramón Portillo family had been squatting as refugees in the shuttered mansion once occupied by the village's wealthiest man, who owned all the cactus fields and a coffee finca (plantation) that stretched as far, it is said, as the volcano four miles away. On New Year's Day, guerrillas swept up the back road, firing into the village as they came. Ramón Portillo...
...guerrillas? Such questions provoke an act of sign language on the part of villagers: a right hand held to the side of the face while the lips remain resolutely sealed. Father Sebastián, for example, shows off his garden and points to a mango tree riddled with bullet holes and grenade fragments. How had it happened? He smiles and gives the sign of silence...