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...punishment too severe for the criminals responsible." In an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Shultz lamented that "the day has not yet arrived when terrorism has taken its place among other vanquished barbarisms of our time." The U.S. dispatched a secret Delta team to Karachi to be used if a commando assault on the aircraft was required. But the bloody affair ended several hours before the Delta team reached Pakistan...
...Karachi, the drama began early Friday morning as passengers were boarding the plane for the flight to Frankfurt and New York. Most of the passengers were Indians or Pakistanis; the 80 or so Americans on the plane were mainly of South Asian ancestry. Among the travelers was a disgruntled businessman, Jay Grandtier of Parker, Colo., who had left Bombay that morning under the impression that Flight 73 was a nonstop to Frankfurt. "I got even more disappointed as the day went on," he quipped later...
...possible to wear the terrorists down. In the words of Vice Chairman Martin R. Shugrue Jr. of Pan Am, which has been promoting its new, improved security system, every expert on the subject counseled, "Negotiate, negotiate, negotiate. Buy time, buy time, buy time." Indeed, a U.S. diplomat in Karachi who had been involved in bargaining with the hijackers said later, "The game plan was to keep them talking as long as possible...
...hijackers, it was hard to see how their action had remotely advanced any Palestinian political aims, which include the recovery of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. They had failed to spring their allies from prison in Larnaca or even to reach Cyprus themselves, and their murderous misadventure in Karachi had turned into a bloodbath that antagonized Pakistan, a Muslim country that has always been sympathetic to the Palestinians' demands...
...normally the case in dealing with hijackers. Says Dr. David Hubbard, a consultant on terrorism to the Federal Aviation Administration: "The record shows that when commandos storm aircraft, the number of people killed increases. If the terrorists don't kill them, the security forces do." While the hijacking in Karachi last week and one in Malta last December both ended violently, several have been resolved by negotiations. The outcome of some recent hijackings...