Word: sabena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argument against acquiescence is persuasive. Still, there is little to suggest that the tough Israeli approach has discouraged terrorists. Tel Aviv's uncompromising stance did not dissuade a Palestinian guerrilla team from seizing a Sabena jet with 90 passengers at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport last May and trying to bargain for the release of 117 imprisoned fedayeen. It was sheer luck that only one passenger was killed when Israeli security men stormed into the plane with guns blazing to end the extortion attempt. Three weeks later, a trio of machine-gun toting Japanese radicals working...
...Israel; attempted to assassinate Jordan's ambassador to London; and set off damaging explosions in a Hamburg plant making electronic components for sale to Israel, and a Trieste refinery whose crime apparently was processing oil for "pro-Zionist interests" in Germany and Austria. The skyjacking of a Sabena Airlines 707 jet to Israel's Lod Airport by two men and two girls last May was another Black September operation-an unsuccessful attempt to free fedayeen prisoners from Israeli jails. The men were finally shot dead by Israeli commandos; the girls were captured and sentenced to life imprisonment...
...Sabena Flight 517 from Brussels to Tel Aviv was 20 minutes out of Vienna last week when two Arabs waving pistols rushed the cockpit. "As you can see," Captain Reginald Levy calmly informed his 90 passengers, "we have friends aboard." The friends-the men and two women, who produced explosives from under their skirts-were members of a Palestinian guerrilla organization called Black September.* Their audacious plan: to land the Boeing 707 at Tel Aviv and embarrass Israel by threatening to blow up the plane on a Lod Airport runway unless 317 imprisoned fedayeen were released...
...small matter. Alitalia, KLM, Lufthansa and Sabena have appealed for preservation of duty-free shops, which are a source of considerable income for the airports. Also worried is British Railways, which operates ferries that carry 6,000,000 travelers across the English Channel every year. These tourists are such eager spenders that British Railways is building new ships with on-board duty-free "supermarkets" so capacious that passengers will be given self-service shopping carts to push around...
...longer willing to be locked out of this lucrative trade, other West European airlines are pressing for landing rights in West Berlin. Alitalia, SAS and KLM have been particularly active, but Sabena and Swissair have also put out feelers. Much to the consternation of Pan Am, the U.S. is willing to welcome additional carriers, but Britain is so far unwilling to agree...