Word: khartoum
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...blue and silver White House jet left the dusty airport of Khartoum, a Sudanese brass band played Auld Lang Syne, slowly and starkly so that it sounded almost like Taps. When the jet landed at chilly, wet Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C., an Air Force band played The Star-Spangled Banner while cannons fired a 19-gun salute. Thus, with poignant ceremony, were the bodies of Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr. and Deputy Chief of Mission George Curtis Moore returned home last week...
...days later the two American victims of the Black September massacre in Khartoum were buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Sadness over the ugly deaths of Noel, Moore and Belgian Diplomat Guy Eid was worldwide. But amid the sorrow there was some solace that with the coldblooded killings the Palestinian terrorist movement of Black September may have inflicted a serious wound on itself...
...killed eleven Israelis at the Munich Olympics last summer, countries such as Saudi Arabia and Libya continued to bankroll the movement. Indeed, the murderers of Munich were hailed as heroes in rabidly anti-Israel Arab capitals like Tripoli. But nobody seemed eager last week to honor the killers of Khartoum...
...Arab leader who reacted strongly to the Khartoum killings was King Hussein of Jordan. Among the killers' key demands during their 60-hour occupation of the Saudi embassy was the release of 17 other Palestinian guerrillas who had been arrested in Jordan last month for plotting to overthrow Hussein's regime. Among these 17 was the man they openly called "our leader," Abu Daoud, one of Al-Fatah's highest-ranking leaders. Hussein adamantly resisted the guerrillas' demand, even though his own chargé d'affaires in Khartoum was the guerrillas' fifth hostage. Last...
...automatic weapons at random. The departing diplomats scurried for cover. "Run, run, run for your life!" shouted the Dutch charge d'affaires. Some, including the Russian and British ambassadors, managed to escape. The French ambassador got away by scaling a seven-foot garden wall. The Papal Nuncio in Khartoum slipped out a side gate...