Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack on the schoolhouse at Ma'alot did not come entirely as a surprise. Last week marked the 26th anniversary of Israel's founding, according to the modern calendar.* With Golda Meir's approval, National Police Chief Shaul Rosolio went on television to alert against possible Palestinian attacks marking the date. Early last Tuesday morning, guards discovered that some commandos had punctured a 10-ft.-high protective fence and crossed over the border from Lebanon north of Ma'alot (which means "heights" in Hebrew...
...annual three-day field trip through the scenic hills of western Galilee. In all, 180 students were eligible for the trip. In light of the alert, the families of 77 refused to let their children go. Principal Shimon Ben-Lulu was upset over their recalcitrance. "The route has been examined," he insisted. "We have authority from the army, and guards will be along. Everything will be all right." One student said later that he had been warned his report card would be withheld if he did not make the trip...
...midnight along the Safad road two miles from Ma'alot. One of them stepped into the highway and attempted to stop a truck carrying seven Arab women home to the village of Fassouta from night-shift work at a nearby textile plant. When the truck driver, aware that an alert was on, refused to stop, two of the Arabs opened fire. One woman was instantly killed, another mortally wounded, and all the others were hurt. The truck's engine was shot out. Driver Faiz Saad coasted silently down a hill into a Jewish border village, where he gave the alarm...
...paranoia index. Need anyone be reminded of the fears and confusions that hang over from recent assassinations, wars and political scandals? It is a time that has caused -if not an actual power vacuum-at least an intense low-pressure area that readily attracts conspiracy theorists, occult mongers and alert topical novelists like Robert Lipsyte...
...highlight of the book is Andrews' testimony in his own defense at the trial. The alert reader will spot a small honorable lie that may or may not be only one of many. Like the impartial lawyer that he is, the narrator reserves comment as first the jury and then Andrews deliver separate, but mutually incompatible verdicts. That leaves the reader alone with the absorbing task of judging the life...