Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli attack a day before it began and had hastily moved to new hideouts...
...since southern Lebanon became a base of Palestinian operations in the early 1970s, the Israelis have clearly had the better of the sporadic cross-border conflict in the area. Also, U.S. officials point out, no "security zone," however it is policed, can offer Israel much additional protection from determined attack by fanatic Palestinian guerrillas. In fact, the attackers who seized the bus on the highway to Tel Aviv struck not across the Lebanese border but from...
...main topic may be 'Get out of Lebanon.' " Carter will once more urge Begin to show more flexibility (over 242, for instance, and the question of Jewish settlements) and will undoubtedly express some serious reservations about the size and nature of the Israeli response to the terrorist attack. For his part, Begin will defend the venture in Lebanon as a vital security measure, and he will make a strong pitch to Carter to change his mind and refrain from selling F-15s to Saudi Arabia and F-5Es to Egypt. On that sensitive issue, Begin has been getting powerful...
...Operation Stone of Wisdom progressed, more details emerged about the Palestinian terrorist raid that triggered the Israeli drive into Lebanon. Interrogating the two captured guerrillas of the 13-member terrorist squad, Israeli intelligence agents learned that the Palestinian attack had not gone at all as planned. The original landing zone, daringly enough, was supposed to be the beach at Tel Aviv itself. The raiders-part of an elite, college-level group trained relentlessly in terrorist doctrine and tactics-had planned nothing less than the takeover of a large Tel Aviv hotel and the holding of its occupants as hostages, much...
...thus begun as a major error for the terrorists ended-in the macabre mathematics of a suicide mission-as a death-dealing success. What is more, a P.L.O. leader claimed in Lebanon last week, the raid might even turn into a major economic blow against Israel as well. The attack, said an Al-Fatah commander who had helped to plan it, was designed not only to derail the Cairo-Jerusalem peace talks but also to raise havoc with the tourist trade in Israel during the Christian Holy Week and over Easter. Last week, indeed, the P.L.O. issued a warning through...