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...many Arabs as a relatively moderate Palestinian leader. The raid, Fatah spokesmen explained, was to hamper the peacemaking efforts of the U.S. Secretary of State, who has steadfastly refused to consider undertaking any negotiations with the P.L.O. On the rubber boat that brought the fedayeen ashore in Tel Aviv, Israeli officials found a crudely scrawled English graffito: KISSINGER'S EFFORTS WILL FAIL...
...Kissinger negotiations with Sadat. In a sharp rebuff, Sadat said that he would discuss such matters only with the P.L.O. leadership (meaning Arafat); the delegation never arrived. In what was apparently the result of a bald attempt to embarrass Sadat, the rubber dinghy used by the fedayeen at Tel Aviv last week carried a marking, "Egyptian Army Seamen," and its lone survivor at first insisted that he had set out from Port Said. (He later admitted that the party embarked from Lebanon.) Sadat must be cautious at a time when much of the Arab world is applauding the "heroism...
...more attractive than the alternative. If Kissinger fails, the odds are high that the two nations will drift into another war of attrition, similar to the one that racked the Suez Canal area in 1969 and 1970. Horrible as the casualties of last week's raid on Tel Aviv were, they are insignificant compared with the casualties that would have been likely to result from such a war-if the Palestinian act of desperation had succeeded...
...first sounds of trouble came shortly before midnight when gunfire abruptly shattered the raucous gaiety of Tel Aviv's waterfront, a center of the city's night life. After killing a passing Israeli soldier who fired at them as they came up off the beach from their rubber dinghy, the commandos, loaded down with rucksacks and Kalashnikov rifles, ran down Samuel Esplanade, the main shore drive, firing at a movie theater and tossing grenades at a wedding hall. Passers-by fled in all directions, but few suspected an Arab attack. Said Gabi Edri, 17, a waiter...
...morning, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was at army headquarters in Tel Aviv. Defense Minister Shimon Peres and Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur arrived soon after at Ge'ula Street to take command. Meanwhile, the Arab commandos chose Kochava Levi, who had picked up Arabic in the streets, to translate to Israeli officials their demand for a plane to take the hostages and ten Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to Damascus or Paris. Bandaging the wounded with ripped sheets and shouting the guerrillas' terms down from a fourth-floor window, Kochava emerged as the unexpected heroine of the drama...