Word: men
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children sound the alarm. "Soldiers!" cries a 13-year-old girl, peeking out the window of the dank second-story apartment. As she hides a framed picture of a "martyred" relative, wrapped in the outlawed Palestinian flag, three young men dash out the back door and flee down the narrow alleyway. When the Israeli soldiers hurl a stone through the open window, two middle-aged women cower on the bed, rocking back and forth in terror. "God help us," pleads Umm Hamada, 45, desperately rubbing her hands together...
...young men of the Casbah think differently. Each day they play a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Israeli patrols, attacking with rocks and Molotov cocktails -- and succumbing to the army's return fire of bullets and rubber-coated metal balls. In a single day the same filthy streets may be "liberated" and reoccupied a dozen times...
Wattleton, the only child of a woman who was a Fundamentalist minister in St. Louis, was appointed head of Planned Parenthood eleven years ago, at age 34. She was a plucky choice for an institution traditionally headed by button- down white men, an organization that had become as all-American as the Girl Scouts and debutante parties. Within her first three years, Wattleton, a former nurse and midwife whose primary bureaucratic experience had been running the Dayton affiliate, shifted the organization's structure to a crisply corporate one, reshuffling more than half of the national office's employees...
...biggest chill has come over raiders who once promised to run companies more efficiently than did the bosses they ousted. Largely self-made men who flaunted their contempt for corporate America, many raiders have had a rude comeuppance. Some have suffered much greater setbacks than others, but few are flying as high as they did in their heydays. Among the consequences of their deals...
...weekends rifle ranges around the country resound with the din of thousands of Swiss practicing their marksmanship. At the same time, Northrop F-5E Tiger fighter jets skim along mountain faces and blue-gray-uniformed figures clamber down couloirs and across alpine meadows. With a militia of 625,000 men, Switzerland, as the well-worn saying goes, does not have an army, it is an army...