Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...with as much patience as possible, but they were hard put to control the clamorous crowds that assembled and turned the scene into a bizarre street happening. Pro-regime Iranian students, led by a zealot with a bullhorn, chanted, "Long live Khomeini" and "Death to Carter." Separated from that group, by the efforts of police, were the anti-Khomeini Iranians and the fed-up Londoners, who shouted, "Go home, go home!" A lively group beating drums danced for peace, and a group of Britons sang Rule Britannia. Lamenting the fact that the city was being turned into a "battlefield...
Suddenly, as they approached the gate, havoc erupted: from rooftops, three assailants opened fire with automatic weapons and lobbed six grenades into the group. Israeli troops guarding the clinic returned the fire. When the fusillade had ended, five of the students were dead and 16 had been wounded. Within an hour, Israeli soldiers clamped a curfew on Hebron, set up roadblocks around the town and scoured the area for the terrorists. At week's end a Palestinian commando group with headquarters in Damascus took responsibility for the brutal attack...
...biblical Israel, used the squatters' presence in the old Jewish quarter to pressure the government of Premier Menachem Begin to allow further Jewish settlement in the city. Begin's Cabinet reversed a policy prohibiting Jews from settling in heavily populated Arab cities and gave the Levinger group the go-ahead to build two Jewish schools in Hebron. That decision enraged the Palestinians, who protest that they are the victims of frequent acts of vandalism by Jewish vigilantes...
...reporters on the flight to Kinshasa the Pope told TIME'S Wilton Wynn, "The situation is the same everywhere. The difficulties are as great for men everywhere. What counts is not the situation, but the dedication of the heart." Repeating the theme shortly after landing, he informed a group of priests that celibacy is the sign of their "total consecration...
...Urfirer and his fellow organizers seem to have forgotten (amnesia perhaps?) the basic requirement for a successful concert, that is, hiring a band that people will pay money to see. The choice of a trivial, second rate group of musicians to headline a major concert is baffling. Why, when Brown can attract acts like Little Feat and Elvis Costello, do we have to settle for a nowhere act like Pousette-Dart Band. (Who knows who we will have next time. Petula Clark? Or maybe even Sean Cassidy...