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...detailed plan which is bound to end in a blood bath? I possess irrefutable proof that he intends to liquidate the Palestinian resistance." In Amman, Damascus and Baghdad, guerrilla radios suddenly began crackling with curiously coded messages. "The dinner is hot," said one. "Ghazi is marching to Haifa," said another. In plainer language, the fedayeen command advised its men to "keep your finger on the trigger until the fascist military rule has been removed." In Amman, shopkeepers, who have suffered through previous confrontations, shuttered their stores. Schools closed, offices emptied, and civilians huddled in the basements of limestone houses...
...control of yet another plane. A Swissair DC-8 was over France on its way from Zurich to New York when French ground controllers were surprised to hear a woman speaking on the Swissair frequency. "Swissair Flight 100 is in our complete control," she said. "Our call sign is Haifa One. We will not answer to any other code." Meanwhile TWA Flight 741 had also issued a new call signal. It was Gaza...
They could not have imagined what was actually taking place. Gaza One and Haifa One were not headed toward a major airport. Instead, they were on a course toward a broad expanse of flat desert some 25 miles northwest of Amman. After World War II, the British had used the area as a training airfield, and its name?Dawson's Field ?was taken from the British commander who sent units there...
Forty minutes later, Haifa One started its descent into the darkness. As soon as his DC-8 touched down, Swissair Captain Fritz Schreiber hit the brakes and applied full reverse thrust on the four engines, raising a cloud of desert dust and sand, which was sucked into the ventilation system. "The cabin was filling up with cloudy stuff that smelted like smoke," recalled Cecily Simmon of Utica, N.Y. "You could hardly breathe." Many passengers leaped through emergency doors before it became evident that there was no fire. When the dust settled, the Swissair passengers saw the reason for the fast...
...commandos ever killed in one fight on Israeli territory. Three other major Arab thrusts came from southern Lebanon. Rockets killed a father and daughter in the east Galilee town of Kiryat Shemona; three Israeli soldiers died in an ambush on the foothills of Mount Hermon, and Israeli police near Haifa trapped a Fatah band, claiming four kills while suffering three wounded. In the wake of those attacks, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned: "Israel must take action across the border." Late in the week, Israeli jets struck at fedayeen-controlled areas in south Lebanon...