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...Hint of Danger. Even as these special precautions were under way, 103 students, aged 14 to 17, from a religious high school in Safad?along with a rabbi, nurses, teachers and two security guards?prepared for their
...students' first day was routine. The only hint of danger came when a side trip into a wadi, or dry river bed, had to be canceled after an army patrol told the teachers that Palestinian guerrillas might be hiding there. At dusk, the school caravan reached Ma'alot, and the travelers bedded down in sleeping bags in the town's three-story concrete school building. Students and teachers took turn staying awake along with the guards. But the weapons that the adults had brought along?an Uzi submachine gun and some bolt-action rifles?were left in a truck outside...
...past cases of terrorism, the Israelis have staged retaliatory attacks on guerilla bases in neighboring Arab lands. Meir's remarks were taken as a hint by American observers that another such attack might follow this second terrorist strike inside Israel in a little over a month...
...President then turns the conversation to how Dean could be kept from telling the prosecutors too much. In a potentially damaging portion of the transcript, the President suggests that Ehrlichman hint to Dean that only Nixon can pardon him. For his part, Ehrlichman implies that a plan is needed to ensure that the testimony of Dean and others does not involve the President. The crucial segments...
Having even less hint of a purpose than most of Gilbert's plots makes Ruddigore not just more consistent but consistently funnier and better humored (since Gilbert generally mistook seriousness for irritability) than it would be otherwise. And it lets almost everything in the Agassiz production work well, from Peter Kellogg's direction of the presumably mousy chorus of professional bridesmaids as though they were so many mice to a somewhat shabby-looking first-act set whose slightly bedraggled ocean seems cheerfully appropriate to everything else...