Word: fedayeen
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...eight fedayeen on the suicidal mission were dropped by a fishing smack, which was later captured by Israeli patrol ships outside Israel's territorial waters. The raiders grounded their boat near a sewage outlet on the edge of Tel Aviv. Unnoticed, they stepped ashore, armed with rapid-fire Kalashnikovs and high-explosive charges...
Terrorist Graffiti. The Palestinians' first targets were some moviegoers emerging from a late-night screening of A Streetcar Named Desire at Tel Aviv's Cinema One theater. Next the fedayeen pitched grenades in the direction of a nearby hall where a wedding reception was in progress. Caught in the attack were the terrified bride and groom, who ran for their lives. As Israeli police returned the fire, the fedayeen ducked into the 28-room Savoy Hotel on Ge'ula Street, where they took hostage a dozen surprised guests. By the tune Israeli paratroopers liberated the four-story...
...Fatah, the largest Palestinian fedayeen group, claimed responsibility for the attack. That was something of a shock, since Fatah is headed by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who is regarded by many Arabs as a relatively moderate Palestinian leader. The raid, Fatah spokesmen explained, was to hamper the peacemaking efforts of the U.S. Secretary of State, who has steadfastly refused to consider undertaking any negotiations with the P.L.O. On the rubber boat that brought the fedayeen ashore in Tel Aviv, Israeli officials found a crudely scrawled English graffito: KISSINGER'S EFFORTS WILL FAIL...
...Palestinians since Qiryat Shemona last April. All together, 62 Israelis have been killed, 170 others have been wounded; almost all were civilians. After previous attacks, the Israeli government reacted with eye-for-eye ferocity, usually with devastating air raids and armored attacks on Palestinian refugee camps or fedayeen outposts in southern Lebanon...
...border probes by the Palestinians are designed to keep pressure on Israel as part of a "gun and olive branch" strategy designed by P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. The leader of the fedayeen has declared that "1975 will be the year of escalation." Even though Israel so far refuses to recognize the P.L.O., the emphasis is more and more on talk. Arafat and other P.L.O. leaders have somewhat moderated their goal of establishing a secular state in Palestine shared by Moslems, Christians and Jews. The P.L.O. chairman is willing to settle for the more immediate-and more attainable -goal of setting...