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...20th day of cold fear together, a grisly endurance record of its kind. At a primary school in the nearby village of Bovensmilde, four other Moluccan terrorists kept four schoolteachers prisoner. Deployed around both the train and the school was an estimated 2,000-man army of crack Dutch commando marines, a special squad of sharpshooters, and armored military-police units...
...another tense day of stalemate. Apparently convinced that the terrorists were prepared to hold out indefinitely despite the exhausting psychological toll on their unwilling prisoners, the Dutch government decided to end the hostages' agony. In the most dramatic rescue operation since Entebbe, a Dutch military team mounted a commando-style dawn assault on both train and school. Six of the 13 Moluccan terrorists and two of the hostages were killed. One terrorist, two marines and nine of the prisoners were wounded. It was a heavy toll, but at least the long ordeal had ended...
...Robert Kennedy a few weeks after the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, according to Moyers. Its mission: to destroy the Cuban economy and assassinate Castro. Over the years, while the Miami police, the FBI and the Coast Guard looked the other way, tens of thousands of commando groups set sail from "safe" Miami waterfront homes for Cuba. Some of the group still in Miami were responsible for Watergate crimes; others continue to pursue an unofficial campaign of anti-Castro terrorism today. That campaign has included a number of recent bombings, both...
...during his capture and has gotten nothing but divorce and psychological grief since his return to the States, is brilliantly manic as he engineers the blimp-massacre to strike back at America for himself and to aid the terrorists at the same time. Robert Shaw plays a professional Israeli commando tailing the Black September group who is on the verge of beginning to soften and see the other side's point of view, and he conveys the tension between self-doubt and the need to stay tough for appearances with great finesse. Only Marthe Keller, as the bitter Palestinian woman...
...playing. Practically everybody, however, agrees that his threat to the Americans was designed to divert attention from the murders last month of Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum and two Cabinet ministers, and from the continuing massacre of Christian Ugandans. Some observers were convinced that Amin, still smarting from the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe airport last July, feared an attack, this time from the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, which was standing by off the Kenya coast. At one point, he is said to have considered putting all the Americans aboard a plane and sending them home...