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Married. David Carradine, 36, film actor (Bound for Glory) and son of saturnine-visaged Movie Veteran John; and Linda Gilbert, 27, of Malibu, Calif.; in Munich, where Carradine has been making an Ingmar Bergman film (see CINEMA). Both Carradine and Gilbert had been married before, she to Roger McGuinn, founder of the rock group the Byrds...
...says Director Ingmar Bergman. "For the first time in my life, the movie theater in my mind dimmed its lights. I slept without dreams. I was choking ... gasping for air. I had no choice but to flee." Harassed by Swedish tax authorities, Bergman and his wife Ingrid settled in Munich, where he began working on his first non-Swedish film...
...storm was Abu Daoud, 39, a member of the Revolutionary Military Command of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Abu Daoud (real name: Mohammed Daoud Mohammed Auda) is a mysterious figure in the P.L.O.'s terrorist operations who is widely believed to have had a key role in the 1972 Munich massacre in which 17 people died, including eleven Israeli athletes (see box). Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon denounced Abu Daoud as an "arch-terrorist" last week; curiously, Israeli intelligence officials-who might have had a special interest in seeing a notorious terrorist apprehended-insisted that since Abu Daoud...
Israel charged that France had broken its extradition treaty, withdrew its ambassador to France, Mordechai Gazit, and called in the French ambassador, Jean Herly, to deliver a "vigorous protest." In Tel Aviv, a crowd of 1,000 that included families of the Munich victims hurled rotten eggs at the French embassy. Summed up Jerusalem's daily Ma'ariv: "With cowardice, meanness of spirit and cynicism, the government of France has raised the white flag to the oil suppliers and Mirage purchasers...
...summer of 1972, Abu Daoud was given the most important assignment of his underground career. He was sent to Munich as an advanceman for the Black September terrorists who carried out the Olympic Games massacre. Traveling under the nom de guerre Sa'ad ad-Din Wali, he spent several weeks in Munich, securing and stashing guns and scouting the Israeli quarters in the Olympic Village. It is not clear whether he remained in the city for the attack on the village and the Shootout at a military airbase near Munich...