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...theater. Next the fedayeen pitched grenades in the direction of a nearby hall where a wedding reception was in progress. Caught in the attack were the terrified bride and groom, who ran for their lives. As Israeli police returned the fire, the fedayeen ducked into the 28-room Savoy Hotel on Ge'ula Street, where they took hostage a dozen surprised guests. By the tune Israeli paratroopers liberated the four-story building in a carefully coordinated predawn raid, seven of the fedayeen had died, along with eight hostages and three Israeli soldiers. Eleven other persons were wounded...
What effect would the Savoy Hotel raid have on Kissinger's latest mission? In part, the answer depended on Israel's reaction to the raid. The terrorist attack was the ninth major foray into Israel by the Palestinians since Qiryat Shemona last April. All together, 62 Israelis have been killed, 170 others have been wounded; almost all were civilians. After previous attacks, the Israeli government reacted with eye-for-eye ferocity, usually with devastating air raids and armored attacks on Palestinian refugee camps or fedayeen outposts in southern Lebanon...
...concern for security. If Rabin appears willing to give away too much, he will be sharply attacked by hawks within his own Labor Party and by the opposition. Ironically, Rabin's sharpest critic in the Knesset, Likud Bloc Leader Menachem Begin, had a curious tie to the Savoy Hotel. Begin used the hotel as a hideout in the days before Israeli independence, when he battled the British as leader of the Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi...
TIME'S Jerusalem correspondent, Marlin Levin, and Reporter Daniel Drooz were both on the scene during the fedayeen raid and Israeli counterattack on the Savoy Hotel. Their report...
Passing the large seafront Ambassador Hotel, the guerrillas turned down a side street to the colorful but seedy 28-room Savoy, a favorite spot for higher-priced prostitutes. By then the whole neighborhood was aroused. Alya Me-shali, 18, heard the noise and stepped out of her home to see what it was. A bullet struck her, blowing away most of one leg. Sofia Gamliel, an Arabic-speaking native of Morocco, went to the window and was surprised to hear the guerrillas talking below. "They went across the street to the hotel," said Mrs. Gamliel, "and then I saw through...