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...past seven months, a major goal of the Palestinian guerrilla movement has been the release of Abu Daud, an Al-Fatah official, from a Jordanian prison. Last February he was arrested on charges of plotting against King Hussein's regime. A month later, a band of terrorists killed three Western diplomats in Khartoum in a gruesome attempt to force Daud's release. Early this month, another group of guerrillas threatened to throw hostages out of a plane over Saudi Arabia if Daud was not set free. Both times Hussein stood firm. But last week, with nobody holding...
Long a man marked for assassination by Palestinian terrorists, Hussein insouciantly dramatized his forgiveness by sipping coffee with Daud and a few other guerrillas before their release. Outside Amman's dour Mahatta prison, in a swirling dust and under a blazing sun, hundreds of Palestinian refugees and sympathizers danced to the lilting music of a shepherd's flute as they waited for the first prisoners to be freed. Encouraged by television cameramen, many in the crowd chanted "Long live King Hussein...
...fedayeen, though, may have been as troubled by the turn of events as Daud. During his imprisonment, he was presented on Jordanian television "confessing" to guerrilla activities and identifying Black September as an arm of Al-Fatah. Other Al-Fatah officials insisted that the "confession" was somehow extorted by Jordan. But last week Israelis were putting out the line that Daud's fedayeen brothers really believed that he made the statements and were waiting to exact vengeance...
...four others, all Saudis, onto the plane and took off. After flying to Kuwait, where they exchanged the Caravelle for a Kuwait Airways Boeing 707 capable of flying 6,200 miles, they headed for Saudi Arabia. Circling over Riyadh, the Saudi capital, they warned that unless Jordan released Abu Daud they would "throw out the hostages one after the other...
...last March, when guerrillas who took over the Saudi Arabian embassy in the Sudan demanded freedom for Abu Daud. In retaliation, those terrorists killed one Belgian and two American diplomats who were being held as hostages...