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Dirty Action. Whatever faction of Black September or other Palestinian extremist group had committed the atrocities at Rome and Athens, it could hardly have anticipated the wave of shock and anger that erupted from Arab capitals. Even leaders of the major Palestinian commando organizations chimed in; one branded the killings a "dirty action." Many leaders were distressed that the attack damaged the image of the Arabs at a time when their cause was gaining international sympathy. As Cairo's influential Al-Ahram noted, it was difficult "to imagine any benefit from an operation that makes the people of Europe...
...which would become the all-encompassing Histadrut (labor federation) of modern Israel. He was elected chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, political arm of the World Zionist Organization. At one point in his career, Ben-Gurion believed that Jews and Arabs could live side by side in peace; but extremist passions on both sides made such a plan impossible, and he soon sensed it. After 1935 he thought only in terms of Palestine as a Jewish state rather than as a homeland for both Jews and Arabs, and devoted himself to planning the immigration and armed strength necessary to accomplish...
Less Charitable. Police said that the deadly efficiency of the ambush indicated it was the work of the extremist, self-styled Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Army, which this time was out to kill, not kidnap. This same organization last May fatally wounded a Ford-of-Argentina executive and slightly wounded another. After threatening more terrorism, the group demanded and got $1,000,000 from Ford for ambulances and medical and school supplies for the Argentine poor. This time the motive was less charitable. The shooting was seen instead as part of a systematic effort to scare off foreign...
...Federation of Builders and Related Trades of Greece condemned the Polytechnic incidents of Friday and claimed the students had been led astray "by extremist elements." The federation said its 250,000 members had nothing to do with the disturbances...
...terrorists identified themselves as "the Eagles of the Palestine Revolution." That sounded like yet another unknown guerrilla splinter group, but Middle East sources reported that the kidnapers were almost certainly members of the extremist Black September movement. At the airport, the terrorists demanded that Austrian officials produce a passenger plane to carry the remaining Jewish hostages - two men and a woman - to an unspecified destination in the Arab world. But Austrian officials, after consulting with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, closed the airport and stubbornly refused to let the kidnapers and their hostages leave...