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SWISSAIR Flight 330 was 15 minutes out of Zurich's Kloten Airport en route to Tel Aviv last week when the Zurich tower logged the kind of report that airmen dread. "We are on fire!" called Swissair's pilot. Before he could obey Zurich's emergency instructions, the jet exploded in midair, spraying metal and bodies on an Alpine forest below. All 47 people aboard perished...
...from a malfunction, but investigators doubted it; the blast occurred toward the tail section, probably in the baggage or mail compartment. Only three hours earlier, an Austrian Airlines plane bound from Frankfurt to Vienna (where some of its mail was to be transferred to another AUA flight to Tel Aviv) had been buffeted by a similar explosion that tore a hole in its fuselage. Luckily, the Austrian's pilot was able to land safely at Frankfurt, where experts traced the explosion to a mailbag labeled for Israel. In Amman, an obscure Arab terrorist organization called the Popular Front...
WITH the undeclared war in the Middle East growing steadily in intensity, the communique from Tel Aviv last week seemed strictly routine. It began: "Israeli jets blasted Egyptian military targets north and south of Cairo and a radar site 24 miles west of the Suez Canal in two raids today. All the Israeli planes returned safely. Pilots reported accurate hits in both strikes." In a matter of hours, however, the Israelis were drastically amending the report...
...from the Middle East, the war be tween Israelis and Arabs claimed several other civilian casualties last week. At Munich's Riem airport, three swarthry men sauntered toward passengers of an El Al jet en route from Tel Aviv to London. The three, later identified as two Jordanians and an Egyptian, suddenly began tossing grenades and firing pistols. One Israeli was fatally wounded and 11 other people were hurt. At first, German police assumed that the three were after Actor Assaf Dayan, 23, Moshe's son, who was the first passenger to notice the Arabs. Papers...
Aside from a stiffening of Arab resistance, the raids involve another danger to the Israelis, as they learned with shattering results. Arab planes can reach Tel Aviv as quickly as Israeli planes can get to Cairo. A day after last week's raid on the Egyptian capital, a Syrian jet buzzed Haifa, breaking windows with its supersonic boom. Exacting the biblical ration of an eye for an eye-and then some-the Israelis buzzed five Syrian cities, including Damascus...