Word: minidramas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airport in Kuwait another minidrama ensued. The terrorists demanded a car to drive them to Syria, but then they decided to hold hostage the driver, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Kuwait and the man who had been conducting negotiations. Totally exasperated by the terrorists' conduct, the Kuwait authorities thereupon surrounded the plane with 100 police and a dozen armored cars. The gunmen were finally cowed and meekly surrendered, giving up their four Saudi hostages unharmed and ending their bizarre, fruitless odyssey...