Word: raying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schmidt also sent his chief troubleshooter, State Secretary Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 55, to the Middle East. Aboard Wischnewski's 707-code-named Oscar X Ray-were 31 additional troops of G.S.G. 9 as well as the unit's commander, Ulrich Wegener. At dawn Saturday, Wischnewski reached Dubai and went to the control tower to talk with the hijackers by radio; he had no success...
...Oscar X Ray headed for Aden in pursuit, but it too was refused permission to land. Bonn advised Wischnewski to try to buy his way in: "Reach the Southern Yemen authorities. If landing permission given, clarify that negotiations will include development plans for Southern Yemen. Major development plans and funds for Yemen. Did you understand?" Southern Yemen still refused, and Wischnewski flew on to Jidda in Saudi Arabia. Before landing he received another urgent message from Schmidt: "The minister [Wischnewski] has a free hand in all the negotiations with all countries. Is that clear?" This may have been a coded...
From Wischnewski's plane 500 yards away, his pilot described the scene to Frankfurt in a running narrative. "This is Oscar X Ray. I can see the doors of the plane are open and the guys are entering the plane." Frankfurt headquarters: "O.K., go ahead...
...Please wait. Will come with the number." Minutes later: "Frankfurt, here is Oscar X Ray. Three terrorists killed, one badly wounded." Mahmud and two others had been killed outright; the fourth, a woman, suffered a thigh wound and was taken to a Mogadishu hospital. One commando, one stewardess and four passengers were slightly injured. Except for the murdered Captain Schumann, all the hostages survived...
Accommodating the Carter crowd has posed some delicate problems for the Green Book's new publisher, Jean Shaw Murray, 50, whose late mother Carolyn Hagner Shaw and grandmother Helen Ray Hagner have made the rules for Washington's social games as the register's publishers since 1930. Carter Appointee Mary King, for example, is certainly the deputy director of ACTION, which oversees such volunteer programs as the Peace Corps and VISTA, but Mrs. Murray sternly ruled that King be listed simply-and only-as the wife of Peter Bourne, special assistant to the President. In the Green...