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Indeed, Peres' visit may be remembered less for any savvy statesmanship than for his swift response to the emergency. Just three hours before Peres was to make his flight from Tel Aviv to Yaounde, the first reports of the gas disaster began to circulate outside Cameroon. Half a ton of medical supplies was promptly loaded onto the Prime Minister's Israeli air force Boeing 707, and a 17-member army medical team was hastily assembled to accompany the official party. Although the Israeli group landed in Yaounde last Monday, the crude internal travel conditions made it impossible for the medics...
...most serious problem grew out of the 1984 killing by Israeli security forces of two Palestinian bus hijackers. A total of four Palestinians commandeered a bus south of Tel Aviv, and one Israeli woman soldier on board was killed. Officials initially said that two of the terrorists died in an army assault on the bus, and the other two were wounded and died on the way to the hospital. But, in fact, two terrorists were photographed being led away alive. Former senior officials of the internal-security agency, known in Hebrew as Shin Bet, later charged that Avraham Shalom, head...
...four Arabs who hijacked a passenger bus near Tel Aviv in April 1984 demonstrated that Israel's renowned security could be breached, but they paid for the terrorist act with their lives. Israeli commandos stormed the bus and shot two of the hijackers dead. The other two were taken into custody and died under mysterious circumstances. Last week Israel's leading politicians joined forces in a determined effort to bury lingering questions about how the , two captured terrorists were killed and by whom...
While the government continues to be under pressure to make a clean breast of the Shin Bet scandal, the public is ambivalent. A poll published last week by the Tel Aviv newspaper Hadashot showed that 47.6% of those questioned opposed an inquiry of any kind, while 28.8% were in favor and 19.4% supported a secret investigation...
...senior officials of Shin Bet came to him with evidence that the agency director, Avraham Shalom, whose name first became public last week when it was published abroad, had covered up Shin Bet's involvement in the death of two Palestinians who had commandeered a bus south of Tel Aviv in April 1984. The two terrorists were photographed being led away from the bus alive but later turned up dead, after being severely beaten. Two of their companions were killed in the assault on the bus, along with a female Israeli soldier...