Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will return to Harvard this Fall to live in Quincy House...
...emptied of some 300 men, women and children who had been held hostage in them for as long as six days. But at least 40 of those passengers remained in the hands of their captors, waiting under threat of death for a political bargain that would free them in return for the release of Arab terrorists imprisoned in Israel and elsewhere. The rest were free to fly away...
...capitals of the nations whose citizens were being held prisoners in the desert, stunned governments started the long job of getting them home. Early Monday, Switzerland made the first diplomatic move by offering to free the three Arab hijack convicts it was holding in return for the release of the passengers and crew of the Swissair jet. But the offer was hastily withdrawn later the same day after it was privately criticized by Secretary of State William Rogers. At a Labor Day meeting with representatives of Switzerland, West Germany, Israel and Britain, Rogers stressed that one-plane deals with...
...release of some women and children from Amman's hotels. They also acquiesced in a firm bargaining position, which had already been worked out by the P.L.O.: to hold only Israelis "with military capability" for a separate deal involving Arab prisoners in Israel. All others could be freed in return for hijackers held in Europe...
Officially the U.S. still views the colonels with mild distaste and exerts gentle pressure on them to return to some semblance of democracy. But the Greek regime now seems certain to get those tanks sooner or later-and probably sooner. A team of U.S. civilian and military advisers headed by G. Warren Nutter, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, flew into Athens last week for two days of talks with Papadopoulos and other officials. Nutter, who is the highest-ranking U.S. emissary to visit Greece since the 1967 soup, was mainly interested in Greece's posture...