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...image that summed up the frustrations engendered by the terrorists' rampage was an airplane: TWA Flight 847, helplessly ferrying its 153 captives around the Mediterranean after being taken over by two Muslim Shi'ite extremists. The U.S. endured 17 days of prime-time humiliation before the last 39 American hijack victims were released. One American, Navy Diver Robert Stethem, was killed...
...there to see him and his family off on a vacation trip to Frankfurt. Miranda Acosta and Cisneros were probably the first to be killed. Then the attackers raked the 820-ft.-long terminal with bullets, hitting people waiting for an E1 A1 flight and others at nearby TWA and Pan Am counters. The men jumped up and down in a frenzy, screaming as they fired, and security guards shot back. "People were falling all over the place," recalled Anna Girometta, who operates a gift shop near the coffee bar. "It seemed to go on forever." Five minutes later...
...Leonardo da Vinci, Daniela Simpson was outside the terminal walking the family dog while her husband Victor, the Associated Press news editor in Rome, was checking bags and obtaining boarding passes for the couple and their two children for a TWA flight to New York. "Suddenly there was a shattering noise . . . and two distinct machine-gun bursts," recalled Mrs. Simpson, who reports in Rome as a TIME stringer. "And then silence. I rushed in to screams and cries, and saw my husband dripping blood from his hand and my son on the floor, shot in the stomach. They were...
...been as big a problem as simple logistics. Based at Fort Bragg, N.C., the Army's elite Delta Force has been too far from recent targets of terrorism to play a role. By the time Delta Force troops reached the Mediterranean to respond to the seizure of TWA Flight 847 last June and the hijacking of the EgyptAir flight to Malta in November, they were too late for a successful rescue operation. One of the Holloway Commission's recommendations is for the "forward deployment" of some special-operations forces and equipment overseas...
...morning of Dec. 27, the news flashed to Athens international airport, where a scheduled flight of Israel's El Al airline was preparing for takeoff. Moments later, a police dragnet began searching for possible terrorists. For the much criticized Athens facility, where Shi'ite extremists last June boarded TWA Flight 847 before hijacking it to Beirut, times had changed...