Word: schwechat
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...about the time that the shooting stopped at Leonardo da Vinci, three men in dirty pants and combat jackets ran up the steps to the second-floor departure area at Vienna's Schwechat Airport. They opened fire with AK-47s. Passengers waiting to check in for E1 A1 Flight 364 to Tel Aviv threw themselves on the floor or leaped over ticket counters in panic. Police and E1 A1 security guards returned the fire, but the terrorists managed to get within 30 ft. of the counter. They rolled three hand grenades across the floor like bowling balls toward their victims...
Such draconian restrictions could well become commonplace. Across Western Europe last week, special precautions went into effect in response to the Rome and Vienna bloodbaths. Austrian officials strengthened the special antiterrorist unit that guards Vienna's Schwechat Airport but ruled out isolating the El Al check-in area in a remote corner of the airport because, as one spokesman put it, the airline did not want to operate in "a ghetto." Highly visible armed police patrolled El Al check-in areas at Frankfurt, Munich and Paris airports. Passengers on the twice-weekly El Al flight between Tel Aviv and Madrid...