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...group known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, headed by Ahmed Jebreel, a 35-year-old former army officer, quickly claimed credit for the attack. The same group also boasted three months ago of engineering the mid-air explosion of an Israel-bound Swissair jet in which 47 died. Jebreel wired Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser last week that the bus attack was revenge for the Israeli air raid at Bahr el Bakr. But Al-Fatah, largest of the Arab commando organizations, criticized the guerrilla group, and declared that its own policy prohibited deliberate attacks...
...moment last week Golda Meir was no longer the drill-sergeant Premier of Israel but simply a woman bereaved. Accompanied by President Zalman Shazar, Mrs. Meir attended funeral services in Jerusalem for 20 Jews who were among the 47 people killed on Feb. 21 when a sabotaged Swissair jet exploded and crashed while flying from Zurich to Tel Aviv. As she spoke of Israel's doleful familiarity with "the phenomenon of the common grave," Mrs. Meir buried her face in her hands and wept. Then she dried her tears and in a firm voice urged: "Let us turn...
Internal Embarrassment. Only last week, nearly a month after the Swissair crash and the bombing of another jet operated by Austrian Airlines, mail and passenger service into Israel aboard 16 airlines returned to normal. For an embarrassing two-day period, even Israel's internal airline Arkia refused to handle mail for security reasons...
Both explosions were almost certainly the work of Arab terrorists. In one, a Swissair plane bound for Tel Aviv exploded and crashed after leaving the Zurich airport; all 47 people aboard were killed. In the other, an Austrian Airlines plane was damaged by a similar explosion, but the pilot managed to return safely to Frankfurt. Some dramatic Israeli retaliation against the savage and brutal act of terror seemed inevitable, but by the end of last week, there had been nothing more than a few relatively routine air strikes against Egypt (see following story). The most vigorous protests came not from...
Withering Condemnation. Working together, Austrian, Swiss and German police slowly assembled clues. In the Swiss case, that was particularly difficult; the Swissair plane crashed with such pulverizing force that no piece of wreckage measured more than a yard in length. Nevertheless, investigators determined that each bomb had exploded when the plane reached about 12,000 ft., indicating that altimeters had been used as fuses. Checks of shops in Frankfurt turned up a pair of Arabs who had bought altimeters and tested them in the nearby Taunus Mountains. They were picked up for questioning, and alarms went out for two others...