Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...augment reporting done on the scene earlier, Scott monitored rival claims broadcast by Amman radio and by fedayeen outlets in Damascus and Baghdad. His efforts were supplemented by the contributions of both news and analysis from Correspondents James Bell, John Shaw and Wilton Wynn in Rome and from Marlin Levin in Jerusalem and Monica Dehn in London. Drawing on State Department sources in Washington, Diplomatic Correspondents Herman Nickel and B. William Mader were able to supply important assessments...
...Flight 219 at Amsterdam. They were Leila Khaled. 24. a stunning Palestinian ex-schoolteacher, and a male companion, still unidentified. In her brassière Leila carried two hand grenades. She had become a guerrilla heroine in August 1969, when she helped hijack a TWA Boeing 707 to Damascus Airport, where a bomb demolished the cockpit after the passengers and crew had debarked. Later she wrote to several passengers on the flight, explaining that the Popular Front was trying to strike at America's Middle East policy and that the hijack "was not meant against them personally...
Baathist leaders in Baghdad and Damascus for continuing their feud in spite of the Israeli threat, and has criticized the fedayeen commando groups for lack of unity-while plying them with several million dollars in donations and training facilities in Libya...
...reform Arab society. The most outspoken of these is George Habash, 44, a physician who heads the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The P.F.L.P. seeks to pressure the U.S. to back away from Israel or suffer economically: P.F.L.P. guerrillas have already hijacked a TWA jetliner to Damascus and blown up the Tapline through which U.S. oil companies move Saudi Arabian oil to the Mediterranean. Most significant, it was Habash's guerrillas who provoked the recent battles with the army in Amman and who took the American hostages...
...added up the casualties in three days of civil war. The Red Crescent (the Arab Red Cross) estimated 200 dead and 500 wounded. "There was so much shooting," said one medical worker, "that we couldn't even bury the dead." About 50 wounded were treated in hospitals in Damascus, where they were taken by ambulance when Jordanian hospitals became overcrowded...