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...disrupted the festivities. Peres was referring to the Israeli navy's earlier sinking of a freighter that both Israeli officials and the Palestine Liberation Organization confirmed had carried P.L.O. commandos. Their mission: to blow up a major target, believed to have been the defense ministry in Tel Aviv...
...Israelis said they sank the vessel on the high seas about 100 miles west of Tel Aviv. Eight guerrillas were captured, one body was washed ashore, and 19 others aboard were presumed to have drowned. In Jordan, Khalil Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, the deputy commander of Fatah, the largest P.L.O. guerrilla group, claimed that the commandos were killed in onshore battles with Israeli forces. He said the ship was heading out to sea when it was sunk...
...other carriers, which are also raising prices about 10% on their regular fares at the end of April, maintain much higher basic rates. Sample round-trip fares from New York: London, $639; Paris, $679; Rome, $799; Frankfurt, $734; Tel Aviv, $799; Tokyo, $1,305; Peking, $1,544. But then come all the different kinds of discounting: midweek flights are cheaper; so is APEX (Advance- Purchase Excursion rate, a round-trip ticket bought at least two to three weeks in advance). And then come discounts on discounts: if, for example, you cannot buy an APEX ticket 21 days in advance...
...early 1970's, he traveled frequently in Western Europe and the Soviet Union with then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50. Later, he served in the U.S. embassies in London and Tel Aviv...
...remain a center of terror. Terror cannot be finished by one war. It's total nonsense; it was illusion. I told the people (of northern Israel) I am not going to promise you that no (rockets) will fall on you, any more than I can promise anyone in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem that no plastic bomb will be blown up in a bus or a supermarket. In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel...