DATE: Tuesday, October 7, 1997              TAG: 9710070431

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: FOCUS

                                            LENGTH:   33 lines

FOCUS: ISRAEL'S COSTLY BUNGLE AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN JORDAN HAS BACKFIRED DISASTROUSLY ON ISRAEL'S HARD-LINE GOVERNMENT. HERE IS THE INSIDE STORY OF THE BOTCHED HIT JOB, IT'S AFTERMATH AND THE HIGH PRICE EXACTED BY JORDAN'S ENRAGED KING.

[This story is not available electronically. For complete text, please see microfilm.] ILLUSTRATION: Photos

Graphics

VP

THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

Khalid Mashaal

THE POLITICAL FALLOUT

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...Cabinet Secretary Danny

Naveh...

King Hussein

Sheik Ahmed Yassin...

[For complete graphics, please see microfilm]

Send Suggestions or Comments to webmaster@scholar.lib.vt.edu