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...alot schoolhouse massacre in Israel and the retaliatory air strikes in Lebanon shook the Middle East last week while Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was trying to negotiate peace, TIME'S bureaus deployed on both sides of hostile borders. In Israel, the Jerusalem bureau's David Halevy and Photographer David Rubinger raced to Ma'alot. For an eyewitness report at the climax of a day's excruciating vigil, Halevy moved into the school building with a wave of Israeli paratroopers. Says Halevy, who was wounded in the October war: "I have seen many terrible scenes...
Kissinger had been increasingly optimistic about a successful outcome of the talks as he began the third week of talks on his fifth visit to the Middle East since November. But then at midweek came the raid by the Palestinian guerrillas in the border town of Ma'alot which Kissinger formally deplored as "mindless and irrational...
...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...
...short-term goals. With unhappy accuracy, one member of a militant commando organization says, "We don't even agree on exactly how much territory we must have or what methods we must use to gain that territory." Despite this surface disunity, the Palestinians, as the massacre at Ma'alot too well demonstrated, are a potent force that must be dealt with if peace is to come to the Middle East...
...forth to "Me and Bobby McGee" and a man in his sixties danced to "Six Days on the Road." Cambridge has never been much for country and western music--and this is rare for a college town. But this week, and tonight, the Performance Center--where you pay alot of money for an excellent sound system and not much else--is transformed...