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Captain Kawas radioed Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport, only to be told that it was forbidden for him to overfly Israel. "But I have been hijacked, and the hijacker insists on landing in Israel. I am going to land whether you like it or not." After a 20-minute pause, Lod gave Kawas landing instructions. Moments afterward the plane touched down and Israeli troops seized the hijacker, later identified as Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Toumi, 37, a merchant with a Libyan passport, no ostensible links to any terrorist unit, and an obvious overdose of alcohol. Said a stewardess...
...Palestinian outrage, which occurred only a few days before at Athens International Airport. In that incident, two young members of Black September attacked with guns and grenades a line of passengers waiting to board a New York-bound flight. They had planned to strike at passengers bound for Tel Aviv aboard TWA Flight 806-but by the time they attacked, the Tel Aviv passengers were safely aboard their jet. When the ordeal was over, two Americans and an Austrian lay dead, and 55 were wounded...
...killers escaped from Norway and arrived without mishap in Tel Aviv, though Norwegian police think they may have been responsible for the hit-and-run death of a 16-year-old boy. Two "trailers," who had provided security for the killers, also made their getaway. But others were caught. Acting on tips, police picked up four of the Israeli conspirators at the Oslo airport; they carried large sums of money as well as false passports. Two others were apprehended in the apartment of an Israeli embassy official in Oslo...
...jumbo jet's 123 passengers-all but nine of them Japanese-and 22 crew members were the captives of a terrorist team that evidently included both Palestinians and members of the fanatical Japanese leftist group called Rengo Sekigun (Red Army), which last year staged a massacre at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport that cost 26 lives. Astonishingly, Amsterdam airport authorities had been tipped off beforehand by the Israeli secret service that a skyjacking attempt might be imminent, but they took no special precautions. "We do spot checks sometimes," said an airport policeman, "but not on these northbound flights...
TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter visited Dayan at his home in Tel Aviv for one of his infrequent interviews. "Dayan exudes the air of a man of destiny waiting in the wings," cabled Schecter. "When I arrived, he was just washing his hands after working on a reconstruction of a 3500 B.C. tomb figure. Framed by the archaeological finds in his garden, he took a long look at the Middle East. The next ten years, he predicted, will see the borders frozen along present lines-but there will not be a major...