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...about the time that the shooting stopped at Leonardo da Vinci, three men in dirty pants and combat jackets ran up the steps to the second-floor departure area at Vienna's Schwechat Airport. They opened fire with AK-47s. Passengers waiting to check in for E1 A1 Flight 364 to Tel Aviv threw themselves on the floor or leaped over ticket counters in panic. Police and E1 A1 security guards returned the fire, but the terrorists managed to get within 30 ft. of the counter. They rolled three hand grenades across the floor like bowling balls toward their victims...
Eckehard Kaerner, 50, an Austrian high school teacher headed for some vacation study in Israel, died of multiple wounds under a brightly lit Christmas tree near the E1 A1 counter. "Suddenly there was this terrible noise, not single shots but real explosions," said a Viennese man who jumped behind a counter. "Three or four meters to my left, three people had fallen to the ground. There was a small child, all bloodied, its mother, who was also wounded, and a man who lay bleeding and seemed dead. To my right, another man had fallen and did not budge anymore...
...precautions. At Rome's airport, a balcony overlooking the ticket counters had been closed. Both the Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports outside Paris were being watched by extra squads of national police. Undercover detectives drifted among the crowds near check-in counters at London's Heathrow. Every taxiing E1 A1 airliner at major European airports was trailed by armored cars carrying police with machine guns. Screening measures were in effect last week at Rome and Vienna, but to little avail: the massacres occurred well away from the passenger gates...
...While E1 A1 appeared to be the target of both attacks, the terrorists in Rome evidently did not much care whom they hit. In addition to the five Americans, the victims included at least three Greeks, two Mexicans, one Algerian and two men whose nationalities were not known...