Word: saids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that someone is going to come to their rescue and they will recover their lost territories. They are becoming the spoiled nations of the world. They can permit themselves to do anything they want, thanks to oil interests and big-power politics. Suppose we Israelis demanded unconditional surrender or said we would not return an inch of soil. We would be accused of lack of realism...
Airliners are particularly vulnerable. The P.F.L.P. promised a follow-up to the Athens attempt and issued a "final warning to tourists." It said: "Do not travel to Israel. Israel is under fire. Do not visit or come near Israeli embassies or offices of El Al Airlines anywhere in the world. Bombs may be waiting for you. Stay neutral. Be safe. Keep away...
...Police said the group, led by a stunning 22-year-old girl who used to teach school in Lebanon, had apparently intended to divert the Tel Aviv-to-New York flight to Tunisia. There the Boeing 707 was to have been evacuated and blown up in an attempt to persuade TWA to stop flying to Israel. Though the plot failed and the three now face possible life imprisonment under Greece's tough new anti-explosives law, it was one more example of how Arab terrorists are increasingly exporting violence to the airports and office buildings of Europe...
There is fear that more-and possibly even more bizarre-attacks may be in the offing. Two weeks ago, a Portuguese Jewish banker was seized and ransomed for $250,000 in Geneva by masked bandits who said it was for "our brethren in Winterthur." Last week British newspapers printed accounts of an Arab plot to kidnap wealthy British Jews for ransom. According to the reports, representatives of Al-Fatah hired members of the London underworld to drug the victims and smuggle them out of Britain to the Middle East. The list of proposed victims included Charles Clore, chairman of Selfridge...
...rash of requests for asylum. By Christmas, the last day of the tour, the tourists were sharing anguished doubts whether they should go through with it or return to the familiarity-and growing repression-of their homeland. Pointing to some of the eleven children on the tour, one man said: "Some of us parents are too old to really ever be happy in a new country. We are doing it for our children. They must have the chance." A blonde, her eyes red from weeping, worried about her mother at home. "If I were the only one, I wouldn...