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...conventional weapon. Some months ago, according to these sources, Iranian-backed operatives of the Lebanese militant group Hizballah bought or stole a North Korean-designed rocket from Syrian soldiers and passed it on to Hamas. The weapon was smuggled into the Gaza Strip, where a special Hamas engineering unit was set up to replicate it. At the end of October, Hamas launched the first of its Qassam 1 rockets toward an Israeli town. The attack was a dud; the rocket landed in an empty field. But with a range of 3 miles--much longer than the mortars Hamas currently fires...
...corollary in the art world, early rock and roll still was still driven by the same motivation of avant-garde art: questioning blind adherence to societal norms. What began as a search for personal identity among post-war teenagers resulted in a blow to the sanitized, suburban nuclear family unit of Eisenhower’s America. The resounding popularity of rock and roll icons Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley blurred the barriers between white and “colored,” poor and affluent, and right and wrong. Good little girls screamed upon witnessing the King?...
...both have candidates for Player of the Year: Bears guard Earl Hunt may be the top player in the league and the Lions’ Craig Austin is last year’s award winner. Harvard may not have an individual to compare with those two, but as a unit they should be able to make some noise...
Harvard announced last night that it bought a 120-housing unit project on the old Polaroid plot in Cambridgeport, provoking sharp criticism from local activists who said they had fought developers to win a housing contract on that plot for city residents...
...arrests resulted from an ongoing investigation by Mass. state police assigned to the Middlesex district attorney’s narcotics unit, the Dracut local police force and the Federal Transportation Task Force...