Word: commando
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...invoked again with horrifying consequences. Three Palestinian guerrillas crossed over the Israeli border from Lebanon, took 85 teen-age schoolchildren hostage in a daylong drama and murdered 26 Israelis before they themselves were slain. Next day Israeli jets retaliated with deliberate strikes against Palestinian refugee camps and commando bases in Lebanon. Their bombs and rockets left 50 people dead and more than 200 wounded...
Beyond their sense of kinship and yearning for a homeland that many have never even seen, the Palestinians are divided as to methods and short-term goals. With unhappy accuracy, one member of a militant commando organization says, "We don't even agree on exactly how much territory we must have or what methods we must use to gain that territory." Despite this surface disunity, the Palestinians, as the massacre at Ma'alot too well demonstrated, are a potent force that must be dealt with if peace is to come to the Middle East...
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER: Denis Healey, 57, a wartime commando major and former Defense Secretary from 1964 to 1970. He now concedes that he is "a gamekeeper turned poacher." He is likely to wield a light ax where defense is concerned but supports orthodox financial policies...
...sell Saudi Arabia 38 Mirage IIIE fighter-bombers, 275 AMX-30 tanks and assorted other military items. In return, the Saudis have agreed to provide France with about $50 billion worth of oil over the next 20 years. Britain last week was completing delivery of twelve Westland Mark I commando-carrying helicopters to Egypt, and British salesmen are now trying to interest Saudi Arabia in some Scorpion light tanks...
...another source of friction is Iran's dispatch of an estimated 1,500-man commando brigade to the Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman, where it is helping 11,000 loyalist troops who are trying to put down a Soviet-armed guerrilla force...