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...weeks, West Germany's government had been uneasily aware that the Black September movement, which struck so viciously in Munich two months ago, would almost certainly strike again. The Arab terrorists' objective this time: freedom for the three young fedayeen who had been confined in separate Bavarian prisons since they were captured during the Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes and coaches. Last week Black September acted-and took the Germans by surprise. In one of the boldest skyjackings so far, two Palestinian terrorists commandeered a Lufthansa 727 with eleven other passengers aboard and forced the release of their...
...that the skyjackers had come from there. Perhaps they had, since Syria is one of the few Arab states that still provide the fedayeen with camping space and money. Nonetheless, Lufthansa Flight 615 was empty when it left Damascus at 5:35 a.m. last week scheduled to Beirut, Ankara, Munich and Frankfurt. At Beirut, 13 passengers came aboard after a routine handbag and luggage check. Ten miles north of Cyprus, Captain Walter Claussen, 37, felt a gun muzzle at his neck and a soft-spoken Arab behind him on the flight deck. "I am the captain now," said...
...ordered Claussen to refuel in Cyprus and again at Zagreb; over the plane's intercom he announced the purpose of "Operation Munich": to free the imprisoned Black September trio and fly them to a friendly Arab country. By the time the 727 reached Zagreb, the West Germans were on full alert, and government officials had agreed to release the prisoners in exchange for the passengers and the plane. After taking on fuel, the plane left Zagreb and headed for Germany. Munich's Riem Airport was surrounded by policemen, border troops, armored cars and thousands of Bavarian Sunday drivers...
Danger in Europe. So went the continuing underground war between Arabs and Israelis. After the massacre of eleven Israelis at Munich (TIME cover, Sept. 18), an Israeli diplomat was killed in his London office by an exploding letter bomb. Four weeks later in Rome, an Al-Fatah propagandist who worked as a translator for the Libyan embassy was killed by a dozen shots that hit him as he walked out of his apartment house. Rome police have still not been able to decide whether his assailants were Israelis or members of the anti-Palestinian Jordanian intelligence service...
West Germany, with the tragedy of Munich fresh in mind, has taken harsher measures against Arabs than has any other European nation. Bonn has banned the 1,000-member General Union of Palestinian Workers and the smaller General Union of Palestinian Students. The government, conscious of 55,000 Arabs living in the country, said it had acted to prevent "the transfer of violent conflicts" to West Germany. Bonn also expelled 44 Arabs suspected of political activity contrary to German law, tightened up visa requirements and established an elite police force to deal specifically with subversion and terror. But Bonn...