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...around the world, focusing interest on the difficult question of how the rights of Jews and others can be protected against the schemes of terrorists. Kreisky's dramatic gesture came after three Russian Jews, on a train nearing Vienna and the Jewish Agency's layover facilities at Schönau Castle, had been taken prisoner and hustled to Vienna's airport by two armed Arab fedayeen (TIME, Oct. 8). Kreisky managed to get the captives freed unharmed, but the ransom was high: he announced that he was closing down Schönau. His decision raised consternation...
...Vienna-born Mayor Teddy Kollek protested in a telegram to Kreisky: "Anyone who applies different standards to Jews than those he applies to others stands accused of antiSemitism, whatever his origin." But the Chancellor, a nonpracticing Jew, denied that his action was discriminatory. He pointed out the Schönau facility was allowed to exist as a special favor to Israel so that Soviet Jewish emigrants could be processed in an orderly-and secure-manner on Austrian soil. For the Austrians, the facility was a troublesome presence. It had to be guarded by a force of 150 Austrian police with...
...Austrian oversight, however, was that neither Kreisky nor others who favored closing Schönau fully recognized the symbolism involved. Said an Austrian diplomat: "We did not realize the emotional importance of Schönau for Israel and therefore for the Arabs...
...feel confident about being able to handle the fedayeen. Others have good reason to fear their random outbursts of terrorism. Among the guerrillas' priority targets are Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel at the rate of 30,000 a year. Twice this year fedayeen groups set out to attack Schönau Castle in Vienna where the refugees, who travel from Russia to Austria by train, are quartered midway in their exodus. Both times the attackers were spotted beforehand and arrested. Two months ago, another terrorist band killed four innocent travelers at Athens airport when it confused a TWA plane...
...release of the hostages, Kreisky, a Jew, also made an incredible concession: the government agreed to close down Schönau Castle and no longer let Israel use Austria as a way station for emigrating Soviet Jews. If he holds to his word, the two fedayeen responsible for the Israeli-Arab conflict's first train-jacking had scored an astounding coup indeed...