Word: camp
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Tell that to the residents of the Aida refugee camp. Last week they became the shooting range in a battle between Israeli soldiers manning the fortress around Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and Palestinian gunmen from the Tanzim militia. The battle was fought with machine guns and helicopter-launched missiles. But it also showed that the Israeli army believes it is fighting with one hand tied behind its back...
...thought at the time. Mor picked up the red phone that is on a direct line to his commander, Colonel Marcel Aviv. They spoke quickly, then Aviv listened in as Mor guided a helicopter into place above the target. At Mor's command, five missiles hammered into the refugee camp. Two hit the upper floors of the rough, cinder-block home of Omar Da'ajna. The Palestinian cook later said his children "shook like a tree in a storm" as they sheltered on the ground floor...
...said no. His denial seems anachronistic, but it represents a deep understanding of the modern sensibility. Like Machiavelli, he knows how important an air of mystery is for maintaining authority. And TV's very essence is to demystify. Everything it touches becomes familiar and ordinary, ripe for irony and camp...
DIED. WERNER KLEMPERER, 80, Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who won two Emmys for his portrayal of the bumbling Nazi prison-camp commandant Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes; in New York City. After the prime-time series ended in 1971, he worked as an orchestral narrator with nearly every major U.S. symphony orchestra, and was nominated for a Tony in 1988 for his role as Jewish shopkeeper Herr Schultz in a revival of Cabaret...
...press conference, Barak told Israelis there was no alternative to the kind of negotiated settlement with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that he nearly concluded at Camp David last July. Though Israelis have lost all faith in Arafat, Barak is gambling that they won't want to turn their backs entirely on the prospect of a peace deal. A vote for Sharon, Barak's campaign will say, means just that...