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When it finally came, the commando-style operation unfolded in typically Swiss fashion: it was a combination of precise timing and meticulous efficiency. At 10:42 a.m. last Thursday, a young, casually dressed, plainclothes policeman placed an aluminum container on the front doorstep of a three-story, white stucco mansion that houses the Polish embassy in the leafy Kirchenfeld neighborhood of Bern. Then the policeman climbed back into his beige Volkswagen and slowly drove away. Seconds later, the parcel exploded. The front door of the residence dissolved in smoke and flame, and some 20 members of an elite Bern police...
Wysocki and his accomplices, however, were unprepared for the practical details of their attack. Within 24 hours, they released one of their hostages, a pregnant embassy employee. They also decided to allow the Bern police to deliver packages of food, medicine and newspapers to the embassy's doorstep, and agreed to talk to a Polish-born Dominican priest, Josef Bochenski, 80. After intensive negotiations, which were led by Swiss Justice Minister Kurt Furgler, the gunmen agreed to a 48-hour extension of their deadline and to the release of five more hostages. Some 30 hours after the initial occupation...
Readers of Red Smith feel a similar ache when the newspaper slaps down on the doorstep. They remember him as a friend. Taking a sauna in Helsinki, pub crawling in Melbourne, trout fishing in Montana (where he comes across a baby eagle "as big as Bobby Ussery, with a Durante nose"), he is gentle, funny and wise...
Somehow, most have forgotten that the PLO's charter calls for the "extermination" of Israel "economically, politically, militarily, culturally and ideologically." Not surprisingly then, Israel remains reluctant to accept a PLO-run state on its doorstep. The Palestinians can expect little from Israel until they abandon their desire to "push the Jews into the Sea" and advocate a peaceful co-existence...
Jimmy Romano's world is with ten minutes of the doorstep of his two-story house. Until his recent retirement, he worked at the Middlesex County Courthouse a few blocks away on Thorndike St. To buy groceries, to get a haircut, to pray at his parish church, to socialize evenings, all Jimmy Romano does is take a short stroll to Cambridge...