Word: bus
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...Danny). He tried Los Angeles ("I couldn't get arrested . . . or an agent") and came back East. But for a while in New York City, there was no house to call home. "I had no money and needed a place to sleep, so I'd ride the Third Avenue bus up to the Bronx, cross the street and ride back down to the Battery. Thanks to the transit authority, I was warm and toasty if I took a backseat, and I felt cloaked and protected by all the people...
...most serious problem grew out of the 1984 killing by Israeli security forces of two Palestinian bus hijackers. A total of four Palestinians commandeered a bus south of Tel Aviv, and one Israeli woman soldier on board was killed. Officials initially said that two of the terrorists died in an army assault on the bus, and the other two were wounded and died on the way to the hospital. But, in fact, two terrorists were photographed being led away alive. Former senior officials of the internal-security agency, known in Hebrew as Shin Bet, later charged that Avraham Shalom, head...
Peres' concession put the focus squarely on Shamir, who was Prime Minister at the time of the bus hijacking and is scheduled to assume that post again in October under a power-sharing arrangement in which he and Peres are to switch jobs. Some observers are convinced that behind the Shin Bet controversy is a Labor Party wish to keep Shamir from taking power. Shamir denies any wrongdoing, and he has stubbornly opposed an official inquiry. But at week's end he finally acceded to a limited investigation. All the time Shamir continued to maintain that in this case...
Shamir's position was complicated when it was disclosed that Shalom had written a letter to President Herzog, pleading that "all my actions in the matter of Bus 300 were carried out by authority and with permission." According to Israeli press accounts, that permission could only have come from Shamir, since the Prime Minister has sole authority over Shin...
...four Arabs who hijacked a passenger bus near Tel Aviv in April 1984 demonstrated that Israel's renowned security could be breached, but they paid for the terrorist act with their lives. Israeli commandos stormed the bus and shot two of the hijackers dead. The other two were taken into custody and died under mysterious circumstances. Last week Israel's leading politicians joined forces in a determined effort to bury lingering questions about how the , two captured terrorists were killed and by whom...