Word: commandos
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...hotel might go the way of the jets on Dawson's Field. But it was still standing at week's end, when the last hostages to be released arrived in Amman and began telling Scott and other newsmen the tales of their long confinement under commando guns and the searing...
Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser also faces some opposition, but he has managed to open negotiations with the Israelis without forfeiting his prestige with the Palestinian commando organizations. At his seaside retreat in Alexandria, Nasser last week received Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, whose visit was interpreted as a gesture of continued support. The general speculation in Cairo is that Arafat and other moderate fedayeen leaders will avoid an open break with Nasser until the Egyptian President can determine whether progress can be made in the New York talks...
Baathist leaders in Baghdad and Damascus for continuing their feud in spite of the Israeli threat, and has criticized the fedayeen commando groups for lack of unity-while plying them with several million dollars in donations and training facilities in Libya...
...swings in behavior and mood that West writes about so well. As a toddler, she painted walls, desks and her own face with pigments blended from inks, instant coffee and Ajax. She would unexplainably put her head through a windowpane. She also plays rough, suggesting to her father "a commando course supervised by an overwhelming midget," a "Gotterdammerung written in mud, rain, and your own bland...
...faced with a shooting war. Six Israelis were killed by fedayeen attacks; five of them died when their Jeep ran over a mine while they were driving to a sunflower field near their settlement in the Golan Heights. Twenty-five others were injured in attacks that were staged from commando hideouts in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. The Israelis retaliated by killing 14 and capturing 26 fedayeen infiltrators, and sent planes on bombing raids on enemy staging areas in Jordan and Lebanon. Said the leader of a small settlement on the Lebanese border: "At least the troops down south are getting...