Word: checkpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rodgers placed eighth in the field at the Natick checkpoint but then exploded just before Heartbreak Hill to move in front for the remaining six miles. After nearing collapse at the end of the race, he had to be helped to the victory area by two policemen...
...West Bank, manages his family's vast 75,000-acre tract of fertile farm land near Jenin. But these days he travels from his office in Amman to the West Bank only once a year to avoid the "humiliating experience" of being stripped at the Allenby Bridge checkpoint. Staunchly pro-American, Irsheid was a member of the Jordanian Parliament when the West Bank was under Amman's rule; he is disenchanted with what he calls a "two-faced American policy that talks of human rights while providing weapons for the Israeli occupation." Palestinians, he adds, "feel more...