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During the attack, air force personnel, flying a Boeing 707 fitted with electronic jamming devices, hovered about 100 miles outside Tunisian airspace, close enough to jam communications in the area. The Boeing 707 also served as a relay station between Israeli personnel off the Tunisian coast, the hit squad and I.D.F. headquarters in Tel Aviv. Throughout the operation, the commanding general, Ehud Barak, 47, the army's Deputy Chief of Staff, stayed aboard the vessel in the Mediterranean. Barak had participated in a similar operation in April 1973, when Israeli commandos raided Palestinian headquarters in Beirut, killing three P.L.O. leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Assignment: Murder | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...pretty windy," Harvard Coach Ed Krass said. "It was definitely an equalizer for B.C. We worked our way out of a tough jam. The team showed a lot of character...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Cruise Past B.C. | 4/27/1988 | See Source »

...wasn't H.R. Puf'nstuf. It wasn't even Oreo Doublestuff. By 8:00 last Saturday night, people were talking anxiously, especially the thousand fans at Sanders Theatre, about the Din & Tonics and their mysterious "Free Stuff" Jam. By 11:00, everyone at the concert was armed with a fantastic doorprize. And the Dins were being hailed as the "hottest group on campus...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Free for All | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

Even aside from the stuff, though, the jam was the best a capella concert at Harvard in recent memory. The Dins performed everything from a song with a South African beat to a heavy metal medley. Even members of other Harvard singing groups conceded that the concert was unique, and that the Dins flowed seamlessly among diverse and unusual singing and dancing styles...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Free for All | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...Dins top the "Free Stuff" Jam? Since they did not rehearse the special effects showstopper, and it still went off so well, Din Mike Kelly says, "The only way to top that may be to let Ed Yim eat a live hand-grenade...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Free for All | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

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