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...ordered Claussen to refuel in Cyprus and again at Zagreb; over the plane's intercom he announced the purpose of "Operation Munich": to free the imprisoned Black September trio and fly them to a friendly Arab country. By the time the 727 reached Zagreb, the West Germans were on full alert, and government officials had agreed to release the prisoners in exchange for the passengers and the plane. After taking on fuel, the plane left Zagreb and headed for Germany. Munich's Riem Airport was surrounded by policemen, border troops, armored cars and thousands of Bavarian Sunday drivers...
While the 727 circled the Yugoslav airport, the skyjackers broadcast a new demand-that the three prisoners be flown to Zagreb and released there. Meanwhile the Germans had worked out a set of conditions. If possible, they wanted the skyjackers arrested "without endangering the passengers and crew" of the jet. If that was not feasible, they told Yugoslav officials, the three prisoners were to be exchanged for the hostages. But if the skyjackers would not agree to the terms, the prisoners were to be returned to West Germany. In preparation for the deal, Lufthansa Board Chairman Herbert Culmann...
When he walks, he gallops. When he eats, he gobbles down two and three full-course meals at a sitting. He wears suits made for him by a tailor in Zagreb, Yugoslavia; all dressed up, he is the picture of a Russian Deputy Minister of Power and Electricity. Bachelor Bobby does not have time for dating. He once said that when God gets ready, he will drop a girl in his lap. Most often, he rises late in a day that almost invariably ends with chess, chess, chess until dawn. Then he dozes off to the soothing swoosh...
...mini-invasion took place at an exceptionally tense time for Yugoslavia. The government's announcement that it had routed the raiders came two days before four young Croat nationalists were to have gone on trial in Zagreb, the Croatian republic's capital. Although that trial has now been postponed until August, a second trial, involving seven other youths, began last week. Both groups are charged with instigating last year's strike by 30,000 students at Zagreb University, and plotting to separate Croatia from the Yugoslav federation by force...
...most extreme and violent dissidents have set up headquarters in Sweden. Croatian terrorists assassinated the Yugoslav ambassador in Stockholm last year, claimed responsibility for blowing up a Belgrade-bound airliner and a train headed for Zagreb in January, and planted a bomb at the Yugoslav tourist office in the Swedish capital in March. Swedish tourists have begun to shun Yugoslavia, particularly after one group promised to plant more bombs on planes flying to Belgrade this summer...