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Another sleepless night in a bomb shelter, another morning of dazed kibbutzniks. At least this time I am wiser, and bring along a blanket and toothbrush...
...everyone had their own way of dealing with the return to normalcy. The first step for many was to battle the chaotic crowds around the baggage area and fight for reclamation of a warm-up suit. Then it was warmth, in a blanket, in sweats, or in a loved-one's arms. With lockerrooms overflowing, runners stripped down amidst the crowds, trying to get comfortable and get off their feet...
...Powers's blanket denial proved questionable during the second day of the strike when a man working in the Leverett House small dining room identified himself as a carpenter working for an independent contractor. Powers said he had no knowledge of the Leverett situation. While the union and the University argued back and forth--the union accusing the University of disregarding its employees, and the University calling the carpenters' requests "unreasonable"--the B&G employees walked...
...direction, uniformed border police, pressed into special service, manned a roadblock and checked every tenth car or so. They concentrated on large vehicles, whose drivers were made to show identification while the trunk was searched. Every few hundred yards more police, more roadblocks, more searches extended the tight security blanket over the entire Trionfale district...
There was not time enough to order up special Israeli antiterrorist squads to arrive on the scene before that fatal confrontation-perhaps the most tragic failure of all. The police commander at the roadblock gave a blanket open-fire order to terrified traffic cops, and their wild fusillade when the bus was finally halted probably killed more hostages than did the terrorists. Worse, it may have driven some of the terrorists to commit suicide-and to take as many passengers as possible with them. According to an intelligence report, each Palestinian commando wore an explosive belt, and he was expected...