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Occasionally, long and miserable nights are spent outside by people who have been roused from their sleep by soldiers and ordered to line up in the street until the following morning because someone in the neighborhood had thrown a stone at a passing Israeli vehicle. The authorities say that residents are collectively responsible for anything that happens in their neighborhood...
...State Department, according to Abrams, is that the applicant demonstrate "a well-founded fear of persecution" if he were to be deported Brutus says that he satisfies this criterion. If he were forced to return to South Africa, he believes that, at the very least, he would be thrown into prison. And if he were deported to Zimbabwe, as is more likely, he fears that his life would be in danger. He cites the example of his friend and former cellmate from Robben Island. Joe Gqabi, who was recently gunned down in front of his home in Salisbury. Brutus...
Singing such hymns could well provoke another nighttime search of the cells of the 300 men imprisoned here in the Bialoleka detention camp. Suddenly the cell doors burst open and the detainees are thrown out into the corridors to be frisked meticulously. In the meantime, police tear the cells apart, looking for cameras, tape recorders and especially the small radios that are the prisoners' main source of news from the outside world. The news is passed on in bulletins that travel from cell to cell via hidden openings drilled through the walls...
...heads the union-busting Liberty Committee, his wife bribes the preacher to fan war hysteria so steel prices will stay high, while his henchman track down dirt on the heroic labor-organizers who are trying to bring about a social revolution. Their speeches are not just background color thrown it to give characters an excuse for passionate devotion or to propel a romantic plot Rather they are the lyrical heart of the script, bringing intensity and believability to characters who otherwise conform with relish to the movement's righteous stereotypes...
Shea said that he hopes to receive a check in the mail from Washington, adding, "then we can put on a little song and dance ourselves, with a couple of atrocities thrown...