Word: aviv
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...relationship with Israel, which is already privy to many U.S. military secrets. "We are shocked and saddened that something like this might occur," said State Department Spokes man Charles Redman. "We have been in touch with the Israelis to try to get to the bottom of this." In Tel Aviv, a Foreign Ministry spokesman denied all knowledge of the matter...
...that the shooting stopped at Leonardo da Vinci, three men in dirty pants and combat jackets ran up the steps to the second-floor departure area at Vienna's Schwechat Airport. They opened fire with AK-47s. Passengers waiting to check in for E1 A1 Flight 364 to Tel Aviv threw themselves on the floor or leaped over ticket counters in panic. Police and E1 A1 security guards returned the fire, but the terrorists managed to get within 30 ft. of the counter. They rolled three hand grenades across the floor like bowling balls toward their victims...
...P.L.O. quickly denied that it had anything to do with last week's airport assaults. Arafat in November denounced terrorist activities outside Israeli-occupied territory. But in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin claimed that the newest attacks showed that "the Palestinian terrorist organizations are trying to reach us and harm us wherever they can." Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesman Avi Pazner warned that "Israel will continue its struggle against terrorism in every place and at any time that it sees...
...commit suicide at the Vienna airport, as the police had first assumed, but instead were plotting a grand spectacle of murder and revenge. They were evidently hoping to take a number of people at the airport hostage, commandeer an El Al jetliner and order it flown to Tel Aviv where, along with an El Al plane seized simultaneously by their accomplices in Rome, they would destroy the aircraft and everyone on board. The action was to have been in retaliation for the Israeli bombing of P.L.O. headquarters in Tunis last Oct. 1. That attack killed some 70 people and wounded...
Sitting around a circular glass table at his trendy Tel Aviv advertising firm, Adler Chomsky & Warshawsky, Adler asked Sharon what he wanted to accomplish as Prime Minister. "I believe that only I can bring peace," Sharon replied. That was enough for Adler to work with. He and a team of Sharon advisers, including p.r. man Eyal Arad and U.S.-based political strategist Arthur Finkelstein, focused the campaign not on the hawkish-sounding theme of security but on peace. They produced a bumper sticker--ONLY SHARON CAN BRING PEACE (it kind of rhymes in Hebrew)--and TV ads with soft music...