Word: nahariya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predawn darkness, Israeli naval officers spotted the rubber dinghy heading south toward the northern Israeli resort town of Nahariya. Ducking fire, the craft made for the Lebanese shore near the border, where the crew leaped onto the limestone rocks, scrambled to the cliffs above and deployed for battle. As illumination flares from Israeli helicopters lit up the area, the would-be invaders attacked Israeli troops with Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades. When the shooting ended three hours later, two Israeli soldiers were dead and nine wounded. The bodies of four terrorists, one of them clad...
...turning to fat. He nervously chain-smokes cigarettes and has a reputation as a woman chaser. He can be charming when he chooses, but is often said to be merciless to his enemies. He is believed to have planned a particularly brutal raid on the northern Israeli resort of Nahariya in 1979; the four Israelis who died included a four-year-old girl whose brains were dashed against a rock. Abbas has a considerable sense of selfimportance: during his days as a guerrilla commander in the P.L.O. state-within-a-state in southern Lebanon, he rode around Beirut...
Among other things, the Palestine Liberation Front was responsible for the 1979 attack on the Israeli coastal town of Nahariya, where an Israeli man and his five-year-old daughter were murdered. Abbas' branch of the P.L.F. has cultivated increasingly close military links with Arafat's Fatah organization. In 1982, Abbas moved to Tunis, where he now commands about 1,500 fighters. Abbas is a member of the executive committee of the Palestine National Council, a post he could not hold without Arafat's backing...
...happened. The hijackers, who had identified themselves as members of the P.L.F., demanded the release of the 50 prisoners being held in Israel. Among these was Sami Kuntar, a well-known terrorist who in 1979, with three others, had staged an attack on the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, killing three people. If their demands were not met, the hijackers of the Achille Lauro warned, they would blow up the ship...
...technically they are not children of war?not of war as it is fought in Belfast, Nahariya, Ramallah, Beirut, or in the jungles outside Phnom-Penh. There are no gun battles or street riots in Viet Nam any more. One side has won, one has lost; and the children of the losers have the choice of "re-education," hunger or the sea. The children of Viet Nam have known war, and they have also known the consequences of war. They thus offer an opportunity to pose the one question that has been hovering over all these children, which...