Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rescue operation began. While two of the terrorists were in the cockpit talking with the German diplomat in the control tower, 28 commandos-their faces blackened and bodies camouflaged-stealthily approached the hijacked plane. Suddenly, there was an explosion on the runway-a diversion, and a signal for the attack. Smashing the emergency exits and blowing open the main doors with special explosives, the rescuers lobbed their stun grenades into the cabin. "Hinlegen! Hinlegen!" (Lie down! Lie down!) they shouted as they streamed aboard...
...least one group is frankly mercenary: the Japanese Red Army will do other terrorists' dirty work-if the price is right. The participation of the Japanese in such incidents as the 1972 attack at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport and the 1974 takeover of the French embassy in The Hague in order to free a compatriot from prison points to an alarming central fact about contemporary terrorism: the growing links of these organizations. A number of West German radicals, for example, got their combat training at Palestinian-run camps in Lebanon and Southern Yemen. Libya, which seems willing...
...skyjacking of four passenger jets, three of which were later blown up in the Jordanian desert. Haddad also planned the 1975 terrorist raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, which forced the oil-producing states to pay $25 million to ransom their ministers. The commander of that attack was Haddad's sometime deputy, the notorious Venezuelan known as Carlos (real name: Ilyich Ramírez-Sánchez). Carlos has served as the liaison man between terrorist groups in Europe and the Middle East...
DIED. Arthur Bernon Tourtellot, 64, vice president and general executive of CBS and noted historian; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Tourtellot served as associate producer of The March of Time films and adapted General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe for a TV series. He was the author of Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius, and William Diamond's Drum, The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution-a widely praised account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord-and other popular histories...
...trouble has been greatly aggravated by Carter's televised assault on the oilmen who oppose his energy program as profiteers out to "rob" American consumers and stage "the biggest rip-off in history" (TIME, Oct. 24). Nervous executives in many industries other than oil saw that attack as an indication that Carter may after all be an antibusiness Georgia populist rather than the fiscal conservative he has often seemed. Says Frank Borman, the former astronaut who now heads Eastern Air Lines: "He is casting suspicion on business in general, and that is unfortunate. He doesn't have...