Word: skyjacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draft treaty glossed over a serious weakness, one that caused the failure of a special meeting on skyjacking held in Washington last month by members of the International Civil Aviation Organization. There, the Soviet Union demanded that all skyjackers, without exception, be returned to their country of origin. The U.S. and Western European nations oppose any resolution that might end the traditional right to grant political sanctuary. Even Israel, the strongest advocate of anti-terror measures, would be in a quandary if Soviet Jews were to skyjack an Aeroflot plane and fly it to Tel Aviv...
Only a few top officials knew the mission of the Royal Air Force Comet that took off from a base in England last week and streaked through the night toward the Continent. Aboard the plane was Leila Khaled, 24, the Palestinian guerrilla who attempted to skyjack an El Al airliner over Britain last month. Her mission failed and a male companion was killed, but three other planes were skyjacked by guerrillas that day and their crews and passengers taken hostage. Now, in a strange postscript to terror, the last of those hostages were being exchanged for Leila and six other...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, organized in Beirut by a Palestine-born Christian physician named George Habash. Habash s P.F.L.P. has recently become the fastest-growing guerrilla organization because of the group's well-executed and widely publicized raids on airlines, culminating in the quadruple skyjack two weeks ago. Among Arabs, Habash is equally notable for having made ideology a paramount concern among the fedayeen for the first time. Rooted in Marxist dogma strongly tinctured with Maoism, the P.F.L.P. wants not only to attack Israel but also to topple what it considers backward, corrupt and conservative Arab governments...
While world attention focused on the drama of a quadruple skyjack last week, the greater crisis of peace or war hung unresolved over the Middle East. Israel's two top international spokesmen plan to visit the U.S. this week. Foreign Minister Abba Eban will fly to Manhattan, where he will confer with United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring. Eban hopes to get the stalled Middle East negotiations started again, preferably on Israel's terms. The Israelis demand the removal of the Soviet-supplied missiles that have been placed in the Egyptian standstill zone since the cease-fire went into...