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...Palestinian terrorists seized the youths, who were on a tour, as they slept in sleeping bags shortly before dawn and threatened to blow them up unless the Israeli government freed 20 terrorists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16 Students, 3 Terrorists Die In Gunfire at Israeli School | 5/16/1974 | See Source »

...Haggard. Accompanied as always by her parents, brother and sister, she attended his Manhattan concert and went backstage first. It was the day before The Hag's birthday, so Tanya sang Happy Birthday into his ear. As a reward, Merle invited her onstage to sing her hit, Delta Dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Teen Queen | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

Tanya's break came when Country Entrepreneur Billy Sherrill heard one of her "demo" 45s. Six weeks later she recorded Delta Dawn. Now when she walks along a Nashville street, cars slow down and people shout her name. She quit ninth grade a year ago with no regrets. Her future is country music. "We're here to stay," she says confidently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Teen Queen | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

There were two especially nice solos, one a comic piece, the other a study of mood. In the first, Marcia Hanlon cooked "A Bun in the Oven" with such ecstasy that she couldn't resist kissing the floor and falling in love with her knife. In "Shawl Turning Dawn," Rylin Malone, very tall and beautiful, beckoned dawn in the Near East, accompanied by a wonderful flute...

Author: By Sarah M. Wood, | Title: Building From the Bottom | 4/30/1974 | See Source »

Shortly after dawn one day last week, three Arab terrorists, dressed in khakis, blue windbreakers and gym shoes, crept into the sleeping Israeli village of Qiryat Shemona (pop. 17,000) near the Lebanese border. Armed with bazookas, grenades and submachine guns, they shot their way up to the top of a four-story apartment building, firing indiscriminately into one apartment after the other. As sirens sounded and townspeople scurried for shelter, Israeli troops rushed to the scene. When the shooting stopped four hours later, 18 Israeli men, women and children-as well as the three terrorists-lay dead. At least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Shock, Terror--and Slender Hopes | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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