14 Friday, hoary 19, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Commandos Demolish a Terrorist Base Following Attack on Maalot Guest 'House Halt to Boycott? REMEMBER • LONDON (ZINS) — The Arabic Press Bulletin in London claims Egypt has taken steps to end her part of the Arab boycott of Israel by beginning negotiations with a number of companies on the boycott list. The companies include Ford Motor, Coca Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Moto- rola and Schwepps soft drinks. THE BLUE BOX AND EVERYTHING. IT STANDS FOB ON EVERY IMPORTANT.OCCASION. 557-6644 • • 1 SCISSORS BUCKLE' FREE BUCKLE! WITH EACH PURCHASE OF $25 OR MORE HAND CRAFTED TOOLED LEATHER BELTS I 1 9 DRESS LEANER BELTS PEARL SCISSORS THE BUCKLE LADY" $6 BUCKLES 4 3 fOR $11 EACH1 NOW OTHERS AT $5, $8 AND $10 IN. STOCK HANDBAGS AND WALLETS! WHOLESALE TO STORES, SHOPS AND DEALERS LARGEST BUCKLE DISPLAY IN MICHIGAN 5 BLKS. N. OF 11 MILE 2240 COOLIDGE - BERKLEY, MI. 48072 FREE PARKING *slay On Saturday 10-6 60 0 ST YLE S 545-6885 HARVEY M. 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He took them into his home where his father prepared food for them and later showed them how to reach Maalot, the police said. The suspects admitted collaboration with the terrorists but said they did so at gunpoint. Israeli soldiers killed the three heavily armed ter- rorists who raided the guest house and convalescent cen- ter just before dawn in an attempt to seize hostages for the release of terrorists im- prisoned in Israel. Miriam Alfasi, 31, of Beersheba was killed trying to escape through a window. Two other women were injured in the same man- ner and a soldier, Cpl. It- zhak Ravivo, 20, was wounded in the ankle in a shoot-out with the ter- rorists. All were taken to Haifa Hospital for treat- ment. 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This was confirmed in a terrorist radio broadcast from Beirut. The U.S, State Depart- ment condemned the at- tack. The fact that Maalot was the target had a pro- found psychological ef- fect in Israel. In May, 1974, that village four miles south of the Lebanese border was the scene of one of the worst terrorist massacres in Is- rael's ‘ histOry. At that rmed terrorists armed from Lebanon seized a school where children on a hiking tour of Galilee were spending the night and slaughtered 28 of them during a battle with Israeli forces. The guest house at Maalot served as both a re- sort and convalescent home, operated by Kupat Holim, the Histadrut sick-fund. It was occupied by about 230 people, most of them el- derly, and also by a group of Egged bus drivers with their families who were spending the weekend there. The terrorists managed to enter the three-story build- ing undetected and took several hostages at gun- point before they were con- fronted by Israeli soldiers. The wounded corporal, Ravivo, said he was in charge of a platoOn that was staying overnight at the guest house. At about 6:30 a.m. he and two other soldiers inspected the build- ing as a matter of routine. "On the third floor I noticed a dark-faced man with a large handbag," Ravivo said. "We asked him who he was. He mumbled something in Arabic, and then grabbed a Kalatch- nikof rifle he had concealed in a dark corner. I grabbed the rifle • from him. Two other terrorists rushed up from the second floor and opened fire on us. We re- turned the fire. "The first terrorist who was closest to us threw a hand grenade. I -grabbed it and threw it back. It exploded, killing the at- tacker. The other two raced downstairs and out of the building. They were gunned down by other soldiers about 150 yards from the. door." Ravivo, the son of a police officer, was promoted to the rank of sergeant while hos- pitalized. In unrelated incidents, police sappers safely dis- mantled explosive devices planted by terrorists at soldier pick-up stations near Jerusalem and Ashdod. A booby-trapped hand grenade was dis- covered just outside Jerusalem on the Tel Aviv highway. An improvised pipe bomb in a plastic - bag was found at a roadstop out- side Ashdod. On Wednesday, police sappers dismantled a pow- erful bomb found in a parked Mercedes car near the Habirah movie house in one of the busiest sections of Jerusalem. Yesterday, a bomb exploded in a Jerusalem market, injuring at least 20 persons. 'Meanwhile, a military court in Rarnallah im- posed long prison terms on two Arabs whose at- tempt to bomb a school in Ramat Gan a year ago failed when the watch they used as a timing de- vice stopped before it could trigger the explo- sive charge. Hassan Abdul Majib, 41, was sentenced to 18 years in prison and Saleh Bangui I, 37, drew an eight-year term. They were arrested when they took the defec- tive watch to a Jewish watchmaker in Jerusalem. for repairs. U.S. Sends Armed Jets to Saudis in Security' Show , WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States an- nounced that it is sending 12 armed F-15- fighter jets and 300 or more American airmen to Saudi-Arabia in a demonstration of "security" for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East "region" that may be threatened by the continu- ing turmoil in Iran. However, the Pentagon said that the F-15s will leave the U.S. Saturday for Saudi Arabia because time is needed to complete logis- tical arrangements, includ- ing permission for over- flights en route. According to the Penta- gon, 250-300 airmen will accompany the planes, in- cluding about 36 pilots. The others will be support per- sonnel as the U.S. has no support base in Saudi Arabia. The Pentagon dis- closed that the "purpose of the deployment will be for the demonstration of the F-15 aircraft." The State Department clarified this later by em- phasizing that it "is not a training mission" but "a 'highly visible fly-in" in which the American jets will "do some highly visi- ble flights." The State Department's chief spokesman Hodding Carter emphasized that the planes were being sent "at the invitation" of Saudi Arabia. Last spring, Saudi Arabia was authorized to purchase 60 F-15s. Carter said-Saudi Arabia "is currently scheduled" to begin train- ing its-pilots in .the U.S. in 1981 and that delivery "of the planes, the most highly sophiSticated fighters in the U.S. arsenal, would be in 1982. • - 12,000-Year-Old Dog Found JERUSALEM (JTA) — What is believed to be the skeleton of one of the world's oldest domesticated dogs has been identified by an Israel scientist. Found in a human grave excavated two years ago by a French team of ar- chaeologists, -the dog's re- mains were identified by Simon Davis, a daeteazal student in Hebrew Univer- sity's zoology department. The discovery is likely to shed new light on the mores of ancient Canaanite corn- - munities. Found in a tomb in the Galilee, the dog is thought to have been a three-to- five-month-old puppy. It supports the hypothesis that man had already domesticated dogs 12 mil- lennia ago. Davis, 29, came to Is- rael from Britain as an undergraduate and has remained here working in research at the He- brew University. His supervising professor, Tchernov, said the domestication of dogs as exampled in this find seems to have preceded that of other animals by some 3,000 years. Tchernov's theory is that dogs were used to help with hunting, and that primitive man found it unnecessary to domesticate today's far- niyard animals for food pur- poses. Some 9,000 years ago, according to the evi- dence, sheep and goat herd- ing began, and this was fol- - lowed by cow herding and lastly, horse and donkey domestication. _Tchernov believes the Jordan Valley basin was the area of man's earliest ex- ' perimentation in the field of animal domestication. Finances Slow Jordan Valley Development JERUSALEM (JTA) — Financial difficulties are - the main reason for th slowdown in the develop- ment of Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley, Shi- mon Ravid, director of the World Zionist Organization Settlement Department, told members of the Labor Party Bureau while touring the area recently. Gen. Moshe. Levy, com- mander of the central region command, told the group the settlements could serve as a contributing de-. fense force should there be a military confrontation.