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Whether or not the Israelis were responsible for the attack, the fedayeen quickly acted. The day after the Beirut raid, a young man in a cinema in Tel Aviv tossed homemade hand grenades into the audience. Three people-including the terrorist-were killed and nearly 60 injured. In Beirut, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat declared: "We have retaliated for the Beirut attack." However, some neutral observers questioned whether the attack was retaliatory. They doubt that the P.L.O. could so quickly organize the operation. Credit for the attack was claimed by George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...pessimistic, like everyone today," remarks Professor Amnon Rubenstein, dean of the Tel Aviv Law School. "It feels like we're back where we began -a small weak country facing a much stronger power with the odds against us. In many ways we're worse off now than in 1948. We're back to Square 1 as Israelis and also as Jews. The pro-Jewish sentiment that followed World War II has disappeared, and many people today seem to feel that 30 years is time enough for atonement. Arafat's appearance at the U.N. awakened...
Today the Rabins live part of the time in the Premier's official residence in Jerusalem and part of the time in their eighth-floor penthouse apartment in a North Tel Aviv suburb. Their daughter Dahlia, 24, is an apprentice lawyer, and Son Yuval, 19, is a tank-corps officer stationed in Sinai. For years the family lived in a house in the Tel Aviv suburb of Zahala, just around the corner from Moshe Dayan, but decided to move last year. For one thing, says the vivacious Leah Rabin with a sniff, living next to Dayan was noisy because...
Jacketless and wearing an open-necked blue shirt, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin last week discussed his country's problems with TIME Correspondents William Marmon and Marlin Levin in his spare, well-organized office in Tel Aviv. During the 90-minute interview, Rabin spoke slowly and methodically while chain-smoking from two different packs of local cigarettes...
...vaunted U.S. F-4 Phantoms. To fly them, the Syrians have cadres of Soviet-trained Cuban and North Korean pilots. In addition, the Russians have given the Syrians 30 Scud ground-to-ground missiles, which have a range of 180 miles and could hit both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from positions well within Syria; for battlefield support, Moscow has sent 100 Frog missiles, which have a range of about 45 miles...