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...early afternoon of Oct. 13, Lufthansa air control in Frankfurt sent a terse message to all planes in the Mediterranean area: "Keep us posted with every piece of information you get." Listening to his short-wave set in his Tel Aviv apartment, Israeli Radio-TV Reporter Michael Gurdus immediately guessed that a Lufthansa jet had been hijacked. For the next five days, Gurdus recorded the remarkable radio traffic between Germany, the Middle East and Africa as Flight 181-designated Charlie Echo -flew precariously on to Rome, Cyprus, Bahrain, Dubai, Aden, and finally to Mogadishu, pursued by two other German aircraft...
...Aviv, Ham Operator Gurdus sat huddled before his set.* In Bonn, a member of Schmidt's crisis group recalled later, "You could have heard a speck of dust move...
...Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include the 1972 rescue, at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, of 90 hostages aboard a Sabena jet that had been hijacked by Palestinian terrorists, and last year's daring Entebbe raid. Late last week the U.S. Defense Department said that it too has a special strike force, made up of volunteers from several elite units of the Army, Navy...
Begin is expected to be able to leave the hospital early this week. Even if he does so on schedule, says Dr. Morris Eigan, head of the Heart Institute at Beilinson Hospital near Tel Aviv, he would need "total rest and no physical activity. Intensive physical activities can cause major problems that cannot be cured later...
Hypothetical Japanese paratroopers who landed in Tel Aviv in May 1948 could have legitimately claimed sovereign rights in Palestine, Yehuda Z. Blum, professor of international law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told a group of approximately 50 people last night in Science Center...