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...awoke to news of a staggering event: Palestinian guerrillas had murdered three members of one family in the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot, seized the school and taken four teachers and more than 90 schoolchildren hostage while demanding the release of 20 fedayeen in Israeli prisons...
...pride. It had to widen the Syrian territory around Quneitra; it must, within the limits of its security, attempt an act of grace. I in turn would try to head off Assad's demand that Israel give up its defense line on the western hills Thus the agony of Ma'alot was the chrysalis of the eventual breakthrough...
...that day, Israeli commandos stormed the schoolhouse at Ma'alot and killed the three terrorists. But 16 schoolchildren died and 68 were wounded?all by Palestinian hand grenades...
...After Ma 'alot, Israel felt an agreement had to mention terrorism. But the Syrians could not dissociate themselves publicly from the Palestinians. So it was not Sisco but Kissinger on the shuttle to Damascus the next day. There Assad made the crucial point. As Kissinger writes, "The absence of guerrilla activity in the past had been no accident. The Golan would not be guerrilla country because of Syria's chosen policy, not because of Israeli threats or non-binding Syrian promises." Kissinger decided to omit mention of terrorism from the agreements but to offer Israel a U.S. assurance that...
Michael Rapposelli as Ma Belle, mother of the English noble hero nearly stops the show each time he opens his mouth. He plays the buxom mom (this year, it's Mae-West-Goes-to-Brooklyn), and Rapposelli milks the show's best part for all it's worth. What's more, his stage presence carries over to his singing, with a superb voice that resounds throughout his all-too-infrequent songs...