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...shoved the barrel of a pistol against the captain's head. The terrorists in the cabin instructed all passengers to surrender their passports. One of the men was particularly rough. "He was pulling people's papers out of their pockets and throwing them around and shouting," Loretana Chafik, an Egyptian passenger, later recalled. "When he got to an Israeli girl, he put his hands all over her. It was horrible...
...point the man approached a passenger who turned out to be an Egyptian security agent, Medhat Mustafa Kamal. The agent produced a pistol and shot and killed the hijacker. In the ensuing fire fight, the other hijackers shot and wounded the agent and two stewardesses. Panicked, the passengers dived for cover. The shots pierced the fuselage, causing the plane to lose pressure. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling, and Captain Galal began an emergency descent from 35,000 ft. to 14,000 ft. One of the terrorists ordered him to fly to Libya, but Galal convinced him that, with...
...identified by Maltese authorities as Omar Marzouki, a 20-year-old Tunisian. At week's end Marzouki was known to be at a hospital in Valletta, recovering from gunshot wounds in the chest and abdomen, and could not be questioned. Although he was under heavy guard, Egyptian security officials feared he might be targeted for assassination by his mysterious mentors. In the meantime the Egyptians requested his extradition, a move that they expected Malta to honor...
...Egyptian assault on the Malta hijackers was the third indication in eight weeks that governments have decided that the best way to beat terrorism is to fight fire with fire. So far the results have been mixed. In the celebrated air interception of the four Palestinians who took over the Achille Lauro, U.S. anger and decisiveness yielded a spectacular victory without bloodshed. But in the Colombian government's Nov. 6 assault on M-19 terrorists holed up in the country's Palace of Justice, and again in Malta last week, the responses produced triumphs that could just as easily...
...Shanghai are in the department of economics because the need to feed and shelter families has become an acute financial problem for the Chinese. Turkey assigns its birth control clinics to the Department of Labor, believing that a lower birth rate will mean fewer unemployed in future generations. The Egyptian government includes family planning in its Department of Family Health. Jules F. Rosenbaum Houston...