Word: checkpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walked back through the checkpoint, remembering this time not to wear my walkman. I made an inappropriate comment about bombs and walked out, vowing to myself never to go shopping again...
...poetic -- and possibly political -- justice in the fact that Keith Haring would turn up writing on the world's most infamous wall. He was in West Berlin last week to dab a chain of his cartoon-like figures on a 100-yd. stretch of the Berlin Wall next to Checkpoint Charlie. Invited by the 13th of August Working Group, which operates the West German Wall Museum, Haring chose red, yellow and black tones because the colors are found in both countries' flags and symbolize the "coming together of the two sides, East and West, which is the opposite of what...
...training programs. More important, the law can be enforced only if the driver has been stopped for violation of another motor vehicle law. For individuals who have already shown irresponsibility and have put others in danger, it is reasonable to make the enforcement of those other laws also a checkpoint for safety belts...
...federal employees? They're an easy target. By implementing a screening process at a pre-existing checkpoint--in this case, people who need some form of security clearance--the government reinforces an existing power dynamic. Not only can they be screened more easily in a technical sense, but the drug test begins to look like just another item on a list of criteria that an individual must meet...
...Nations peacekeeping force and the moderate Shi'ite Amal militia had been friendly. Last week the peace was shattered by the thunder of rocket-propelled grenades and the crack of automatic weapons resounding through the dusty, Amal-controlled village of Marrakeh. Reason: as French guards at a U.N. security checkpoint attempted to disarm a local Amal commander, his bodyguard pulled his own gun. The French responded with a fusillade that killed both Shi'ites. Before long, 100 Amal fighters roared into Marrakeh, their guns blazing away at French positions. By the time Amal Leader Nabih Berri arranged a cease-fire...