Word: alot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students' first day was routine. The only hint of danger came when a side trip into a wadi, or dry river bed, had to be canceled after an army patrol told the teachers that Palestinian guerrillas might be hiding there. At dusk, the school caravan reached Ma'alot, and the travelers bedded down in sleeping bags in the town's three-story concrete school building. Students and teachers took turn staying awake along with the guards. But the weapons that the adults had brought along?an Uzi submachine gun and some bolt-action rifles?were left in a truck outside...
...trio of commandos, dressed in jeans and carrying knapsacks filled with explosives, first surfaced at 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...
...three Palestinians had reached Ma'alot. They began pounding on doors of an apartment building...
...prisoners they sought. The prisoners and half the hostages were to be flown to Damascus. There, a code word (Al Aqsa, from the famous mosque of Jerusalem) would be given to the French ambassador to Syria, who would relay it via Paris to Ambassador Herly at Ma'alot. Only then would the hostages be released. The situation, said Major General Shlomo Gazit, Israel's intelligence chief, became "a mission impossible...
...private discussions after Ma'alot, Syrian officials did not condone the Arab raids or condemn Israel for retaliating. To U.S. diplomats that was a clear sign that the Syrians ? despite their support of the Palestinian cause ? did not want last week's twin massacres to interfere with negotiations. When Kissinger at one point suggested that the talks could be postponed temporarily, both sides insisted that he continue...