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More Bizarre. Many of the new precautions were introduced after last Feb. 18, when four Arab terrorists from Lebanon began shooting up an El Al jetliner as it taxied toward a takeoff in Zurich. Last week three of the attackers were sentenced in a Swiss court in Winterthur to twelve years' hard labor. A 23-year-old Israeli guard who leaped from the plane and gunned down the fourth was acquitted of murder. Terrorists have also taken aim at El Al on the ground. Israeli airline and shipping offices in London, Bonn and Athens have been bombed in recent...
There is fear that more-and possibly even more bizarre-attacks may be in the offing. Two weeks ago, a Portuguese Jewish banker was seized and ransomed for $250,000 in Geneva by masked bandits who said it was for "our brethren in Winterthur." Last week British newspapers printed accounts of an Arab plot to kidnap wealthy British Jews for ransom. According to the reports, representatives of Al-Fatah hired members of the London underworld to drug the victims and smuggle them out of Britain to the Middle East. The list of proposed victims included Charles Clore, chairman of Selfridge...
...Swiss town of Winterthur, where three terrorists went on trial last week for the machine-gunning of an El Al jet in Zurich last February, an Arab spokesman warned darkly that the Athens blast and the Swiss trial were "all connected." The Arab terrorists seemed totally uninterested in defending themselves. Backed by a claque of Arab lawyer-spectators from Algeria, Jordan, Libya and Egypt, the three denounced their court-appointed Swiss attorney and refused to answer all questions...
...well-chosen art collection is a work of art itself; it has integrity and takes the pulse of an era. Such a collection is that of Dr. Arthur Hahnloser, who lived in Winterthur, near Zurich, until his death in 1936. In his Villa Flora, a large and angular house behind an iron fence on a faceless street, he gathered one of the choicest private hoards of post-impressionist art in the world (see following pages...
...blue police Volkswagen bus pulled up in front of the courthouse in Winterthur, Switzerland one day last week, a ripple of anticipation ran through the waiting crowd. "Here he comes," yelled a photographer-and out stepped a curly-haired Englishman, bound for the most sensational trial Switzerland had seen in years. But the prisoner's names -Donald Hume alias Donald Brown alias John Stephen Bird-were not on the tips of Swiss tongues alone. In Britain, Hume is Scotland Yard's most notorious enemy -and just about the slipperiest the Yard has ever...