Word: rome
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...threw a grenade toward a nearby espresso bar and hamburger counter, where General Donato Miranda Acosta, the military attaché at the Mexican embassy in Rome, was sipping coffee with his secretary, Genoveva Jaime Cisneros, who was there to see him and his family off on a vacation trip to Frankfurt. Miranda Acosta and Cisneros were probably the first to be killed. Then the attackers raked the 820-ft.-long terminal with bullets, hitting people waiting for an E1 A1 flight and others at nearby TWA and Pan Am counters. The men jumped up and down in a frenzy, screaming...
Interpol, the Paris-based anticrime organization, had warned early in December that terrorists, "probably of Arab origin," might strike an airport during the Christmas holidays. Officials in a few West European countries had already taken precautions. At Rome's airport, a balcony overlooking the ticket counters had been closed. Both the Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports outside Paris were being watched by extra squads of national police. Undercover detectives drifted among the crowds near check-in counters at London's Heathrow. Every taxiing E1 A1 airliner at major European airports was trailed by armored cars carrying police with machine...
...Leonardo da Vinci, Daniela Simpson was outside the terminal walking the family dog while her husband Victor, the Associated Press news editor in Rome, was checking bags and obtaining boarding passes for the couple and their two children for a TWA flight to New York. "Suddenly there was a shattering noise . . . and two distinct machine-gun bursts," recalled Mrs. Simpson, who reports in Rome as a TIME stringer. "And then silence. I rushed in to screams and cries, and saw my husband dripping blood from his hand and my son on the floor, shot in the stomach. They were...
Also killed in the terminal was John Buonocore, 20, an exchange student from Pennsylvania's Dickinson College, who was about to return from a semester's study in Rome. Three other Americans failed to survive their airport wounds and died in hospitals. They were Don Maland, 30, a native New Yorker who had been working for Ford Aerospace in Cairo; Frederick Gage, 29, a member of the board of Capital Times Co. in Madison, Wis., and Elena Tomarello, 67, a returning vacationer from North Naples...
While E1 A1 appeared to be the target of both attacks, the terrorists in Rome evidently did not much care whom they hit. In addition to the five Americans, the victims included at least three Greeks, two Mexicans, one Algerian and two men whose nationalities were not known...