Word: commandos
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...hotel might go the way of the jets on Dawson's Field. But it was still standing at week's end, when the last hostages to be released arrived in Amman and began telling Scott and other newsmen the tales of their long confinement under commando guns and the searing...
...Cover: Photo montage. From the top: jetliners at desert airstrip (by Nik Wheeler); commando press conference (Wheeler); burning 747 at Cairo (Rachad el Koussy for NBC News...
...P.F.L.P. is one of the most militant of some dozen Palestinian commando outfits known collectively as the fedayeen (men of sacrifice). It is Marxistoriented, with touches of Mao. Last week the P.F.L.P.'s leader, Dr. George Habash, was traveling through North Korea on his way home from Peking, where he had sought more Asian Communist weapons and funds. Habash & Co. have been violently opposed to the Middle East cease-fire plan accepted in August by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein. Vowed Habash: "If a settlement is made with Israel, we will turn the Middle East...
Another problem was that no one, in Habash's absence, emerged as a clear spokesman for the P.F.L.P. That made almost any remark by an individual commando appear to be a Front demand. One hijacker aboard the Pan American 747, for instance, told passengers that the Front would demand freedom for Sirhan B. Sirhan, convicted assassin of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The assertion was quickly denied by other Popular Front members...
...swings in behavior and mood that West writes about so well. As a toddler, she painted walls, desks and her own face with pigments blended from inks, instant coffee and Ajax. She would unexplainably put her head through a windowpane. She also plays rough, suggesting to her father "a commando course supervised by an overwhelming midget," a "Gotterdammerung written in mud, rain, and your own bland...