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...came to the White House to introduce himself to Jimmy Carter back in 1977, he brought with him a detailed, top-secret inventory of favors that the Israeli intelligence services had rendered the U.S., such as sharing captured Soviet-made weapons and intelligence reports from agents who had penetrated terrorist organizations. The just-elected Prime Minister intended the catalogue to be Exhibit A in his first call on the U.S. President-documentary proof of Israel's contribution to the political and military interests of the West. Begin believed that Israel could count on the U.S. only as long...
...guidelines for Israeli forces serving in the occupied territories. Henceforth, they should avoid entering Arab schools in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights; roadblock checks should be as civil as possible; and efforts should be made not to treat large segments of the Arab population as terrorist sympathizers. The orders amounted to an admission that the dour, ironfisted occupation policy of the previous 16 months, during which demonstrating Arab youngsters were occasionally fired upon by Israeli soldiers, was a failure...
...sparsely settled northern sections of both states. In Utah the truck convoy that would carry the bombs 40 miles from Dugway Proving Ground, where the planes were scheduled to land, to Tooele was well rehearsed: drivers and guards had traveled the route three times, foiling nine different mock terrorist attacks along...
...favorite cities. But suddenly last week, with no explanation, he canceled his trip. Four days before, a Palestinian guerrilla named Mohammed Daoud Mohammed Auda was shot while sitting in a Warsaw hotel café, but survived. The two incidents reflected the violent and convoluted world of the terrorist, where motives are often murky and alliances shift rapidly. Indeed, intelligence experts believe that the week may also have marked the reappearance, after seven years, of Black September, the notorious band of Palestinian terrorists whose attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich led to the deaths...
...past. Experts on terrorism believe that the leader of the revived group is Salah Khalaf, better known as Abu Iyad, the P.L.O.'s "Interior Minister" and, as it happens, one of Arafat's top aides. In September 1970, Abu Iyad first launched the Black September terrorist group as a result of bitter fighting that year between Palestinian fedayeen and Jordan's King Hussein, a conflict that had led to the P.L.O.'s expulsion from Jordan...