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Watched by several hundred Bangkok citizens who swarmed into the narrow street outside the embassy. Thai, Israeli and Egyptian officials raced to the scene. Thailand's Deputy Foreign Minister Chartichai Choonhaven and Air Chief Marshal Dawee Chullasapya, as well as the Egyptian Ambassador to Bangkok, Mustafa Essawi, entered the embassy to negotiate with the terrorists. Israeli Ambassador Amir remained outside, in direct contact with the Israeli Cabinet in Jerusalem through a hastily installed telex machine...
...hostages. After an hour of talks, they agreed to these terms and were rewarded with a meal of curried chicken and Scotch whisky supplied by the Thai government. At dawn, they left for Cairo on a special Thai International flight, accompanied by the two ranking Thai negotiators and by Essawi. The Egyptian diplomat, in a rare instance of Arab-Israeli cooperation, had clearly played a key role in saving the hostages' lives. Even rarer was the fact that the terrorists had listened to reason. The incident marked the first time that Black Septembrists had backed down...
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