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...bloody massacre that ensued, unfortunately, may have been as much the result of Israeli incompetence as Palestinian menace. Every one of Israel's surveillance and emergency reaction systems failed during the landing and deadly ride of the terrorist raiding party from Kibbutz Ma'agan Mikha'el to the Tel Aviv Country Club, where the bus and its passengers were halted in a storm of gunfire and flame...
...finally destroyed one bus in an orgy of fire and death. Official statistics put the dead at 37 (all but a few of them civilians, among them at least 10 children) and 76 wounded-a toll that exceeded the 1972 Munich massacre (11 dead) and the slaughter at a Ma'alot school in 1974 (26). It was the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history...
...squad, consisting of 11 terrorists, two of them women, is believed to have been launched from a ship offshore, from which they put out in two Zodiak commando boats, loaded down with Kalashnikov rifles, RPG light montars and high explosives. In late afternoon they beached near a kibbutz called Ma'agan Mikha'el, then walked less than a mile up to the four-lane highway. After opening fire at passing traffic, they hijacked a white Mercedes taxi, killing its occupants. Setting off down the highway toward Tel Aviv, they met a bus on its way to Haifa. They...
...alongside. There the wild trail of terror finally came to an end. By that time, reported TIME Correspondent David Halevy, who was the only reporter on the scene, "the highway looked like a slaughterhouse. It was worse than anything I saw at the school shot up by terrorists in Ma'alot...
...Crimson is pleased to announce the election of the following: To the News Board: Raymond C. Bertolino '80 of Eliot House and Nassau, N.Y.; Justina K. Carlson '81 of Wigglesworth Hall and Wellfleet, Ma.; Susan C. Faludi '81 of Stoughton Hall and New York, N.Y.; Joan Feigenbaum '80-1 of Canaday Hall and Valley Stream, N.Y.; J. Christopher Flowers '79 of Adams House and Wayland, Ma.; William M. Ginsberg '78-3 of Quincy House and Oshkosh, Wisc.; Joshua I. Goldhaber '80 of Quincy House and Newton, Ma.; Dewitt C. Jones IV '79 of Eliot House and Falmouth, Ma.; Harry...