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...killed and several oth ers wounded. Desperate to escape, the raiders fought their way to the control tower, guided an incoming Air India 707 to a landing and commandeered the plane. They forced the Air India pilot to fly them 2,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to Durban...
...flights to countries that harbor hijackers. As expected, the loudest protests came from Seychelles President Albert René. After forlornly requesting extradition of the raiders, he asked the United Nations to conduct an inquiry and charged again that Pretoria had organized the coup. That accusation was buttressed by a Durban newspaper report that several of the mercenaries were South African policemen...
...board as mortar and machine-gun fire blazed around them. "You'll just have to wait." Three hours later, the surviving soldiers of fortune, carrying the body of a dead comrade, trooped onto the plane and ordered it to fly to South Africa. Arrested upon landing at Durban, they now face prison terms of five to 30 years for hijacking...
Just before the nation's schoolchildren were let out for a five-day holiday to join in the festivities, the resentment turned into outright violence. Sections of railroad were blown up by terrorist bombs outside Johannesburg and Durban. In East London, black nationalist guerrillas lobbed a hand grenade into a police station and raked the building with automatic-rifle fire. Two days later, other saboteurs set off an explosive device at a South African Defense Force recruiting center in Durban...
...been claimed that on or about Dec. 27 the Salem anchored offshore at Durban, South Africa's largest port. By then the crew had painted over the name Salem on the hull, making it read Lema-a simple three-letter switch. The vessel then slipped out of Durban around Jan. 2, Lloyd's believes, with its tanks full of sea water to simulate a full load. Two weeks later, when the ship was almost back on its original schedule, it sank off the Senegalese coast...