Word: missioners
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Almost overnight, the Israeli attack ?and the Palestinian terrorist slaughter that had triggered it?changed the diplomatic outlook for the Middle East. Ever since Anwar Sadat undertook his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem last November, the focus had been on the pursuit of peace and the chance that, despite all the subsequent setbacks, the Egyptian President's initiative could somehow propel the protagonists toward an unraveling of their ancient grievances. Now, suddenly, the talk of peace was replaced by grave concern about a renewal of the old Middle East "cycle of violence," as U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance called...
...Egypt and Israel finally agreed to a declaration of principles and the other Arabs still refused to come in. "But it's hard to imagine that he would then shrug his shoulders and give up," continues Correspondent Wynn. "He regards the quest for peace as a sacred mission in the most literal sense?as a kind of special fate that he has accepted. The likelihood is that he would go ahead and make his settlement with Israel, leaving those blank spaces on the treaty for the others to sign if they ultimately come to their senses...
What had thus begun as a major error for the terrorists ended-in the macabre mathematics of a suicide mission-as a death-dealing success. What is more, a P.L.O. leader claimed in Lebanon last week, the raid might even turn into a major economic blow against Israel as well. The attack, said an Al-Fatah commander who had helped to plan it, was designed not only to derail the Cairo-Jerusalem peace talks but also to raise havoc with the tourist trade in Israel during the Christian Holy Week and over Easter. Last week, indeed, the P.L.O. issued...
Indeed, however the rest of the world may regard their bloody deed, the 13 young Palestinians involved in the suicide mission against Israel were sorely needed heroes to most of the estimated 3.8 million Palestinians dispersed around the world. Even in what a majority of Palestinians regard as the heart of their lost homeland, the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, Palestinian schoolchildren defied Israeli orders against political demonstrations by parading in tribute to the Sabbath terrorists and against the Begin regime's incursion into Lebanon. Says Mahmud Abu Zalaf, 53, editor of the West Bank Arabic...
...Harvard men's heavyweight crew will leave the choppy waters and biting winds of the Charles this afternoon for the balmy air of Mission Bay, San Diego, where a week of double-sessions will prepare them for the 2000-meter San Diego Crew Classic on April Fool...