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...most dramatic exploits of the week was the raid on the Beirut branch of the Bank of America by five terrorists who said they belonged to the Lebanese Revolutionary Socialist Movement. They held more than 30 prisoners hostage overnight while demanding that all Palestinian guerrillas be freed from Lebanese prisons and that the bank donate $10 million to the Arab war against Israel. Next morning police stormed the building and freed the hostages. Five people were killed: three guerrilla's, one hostage, one policeman...
...Would the fourth round of fighting have come so soon, and would it have been fought with such Arab tenacity, had not the Egyptians felt a just grievance at the loss of their lands east of Suez, and believed that what was held by the sword could only be freed by the sword...
...with the rest of the people. Later they will have to go before the military court and it will have to decide what to do to them. I don't know what charges can be made against these people. Many of them, I think, will have to be freed...
...gesture came after three Russian Jews, on a train nearing Vienna and the Jewish Agency's layover facilities at Schönau Castle, had been taken prisoner and hustled to Vienna's airport by two armed Arab fedayeen (TIME, Oct. 8). Kreisky managed to get the captives freed unharmed, but the ransom was high: he announced that he was closing down Schönau. His decision raised consternation. But international criticism could not change Kreisky's mind, nor could Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who rushed from a Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg to Vienna to reason...
...Example: Richard Nixon in 1970 paid at least $81,000 interest on $1,000,000 borrowed to buy his San Clemente property. He could have written that off against his $200,000 salary as President of the United States - and that, combined with other deductions, might have freed him from paying any income tax on his presidential salary...