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...Refugees, many leading donkeys or pushing wheelbarrows laden with pots and pans, straggled from the city past government tanks and machine-gun positions. At week's end the estimate of soldiers and civilians killed in the civil war had risen to 3,000. There were also reports from Khartoum that Ethiopia had accepted a three-point proposal for a cease-fire in Eritrea proposed by the Sudanese government...
More importantly, at Rabat, Egypt joined with the other Arab nations in endorsing the PLO, the blanket Palestinian terrorist organization committed to the liquidation of the Jewish state of Isreal. The PLO's past achievements are all too familiar. The murders of the children in Maalot, the diplomats at Khartoum and the 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games are merely the first that come to mind...
...Breathing Space. Later, another grisly drama of terrorism was played out at the international airport in Tunis. Bargaining with the lives of 47 persons aboard a hijacked British airliner, three Palestinian guerrillas demanded the release of 13 fellow terrorists-veterans of the 1973 Khartoum and Rome massacres-who were being held in Cairo. After one passenger had been assassinated, Egypt flew five of the Palestinian prisoners from Cairo to Tunis. The Netherlands also met a subsequent demand to release two prisoners. Late last Sunday the hostages were released unharmed...
Among the offshoots of Al Fatah, however, are the notorious Black September teams, whose exploits outside the parent organization include the Munich massacre of 1972, in which eleven Israeli athletes were killed, and the slaying of one Belgian and two American diplomats in Khartoum in March 1973. This secret subgroup took its name from September 1970, when King Hussein forced a showdown with fedayeen groups that had been encroaching on military and political power inside Jordan. The King's soldiers not only chased the commandos out of the country but in the process killed at least 2,000 commandos...
Virtual Release. Numeiry then sent the eight terrorists to Cairo, where they are now said to be in jail, awaiting transfer to another Arab country. In protest against Numeiry's move, Washington angrily withdrew its present ambassador, William Brewer, from Khartoum, citing dismay over "the virtual release of these confessed murderers." Despite Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's recent demonstration of friendship toward the U.S., the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram, which frequently prints his views, hailed Numeiry for "understanding the motives that led the Palestinians to appear before Sudanese courts...