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...last September, Black September gunmen attacked the Saudi Arabian embassy in Paris, took Saudi hostages, and finally surrendered in Kuwait. On Nov. 25, as an Arab summit meeting was under way in Algiers, terrorists seized a KLM jet over Iraq and flew around the Middle East before surrendering in Dubai...
Darting first one way, then the other, a headless eel was loose in the Middle East last week. So some Japanese described the skyjacked J.A.L. 747 as it flew east from Amsterdam to Dubai, then west again to Damascus, and finally to its last landing in Libya in an eerily aimless 87-hour journey that endangered the lives of all aboard and caused Israel to go on military alert. Fearing that the jumbo jet might be used in a kamikaze attack on one of their cities, the Israelis were prepared, if it came too close, to black out their entire...
...crew and the 118 passengers were just as baffled. Shortly after taking off from Amsterdam en route to Tokyo, the plane was seized by the four surviving terrorists-one Japanese and three Arabs-identifying themselves as "Sons of the Occupied Territory." They forced Captain Kenji Konuma to land at Dubai, one of the seven tiny states in the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf...
...INHABITANTS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. At first thought to be coded instructions to the skyjackers, the telegram proved to be a humanitarian plea from a group of concerned West Germans. However naive, the message may have had an effect. Almost 79 hours after landing in Dubai, the plane took off. "The skyjackers were even laughing and joking," recalls Maktum...
...catastrophe. Said shocked Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka: "This is terrible. The government will do all in its power to assure the safety of the passengers." At Tokyo International Airport, worried relatives waited for news. But as the week ended, from the 747 sweltering in the sun at Dubai came word only that the terrorists were "waiting for instructions." From whom? No one knew...