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...past, Greek authorities have been lenient with captured terrorists. One reason: the presence of large Greek communities in Arab countries. But to the Greeks, increasingly angry over the terrorist habit of using Athens as a convenient hunting ground (six incidents in five years), this most recent atrocity was the breaking point. The two captives -Shaif al Arid, 22, and Tallal Kantourah, 21, both from Jordan-were quickly indicted for premeditated murder. They face the death penalty, which in Greece is by firing squad...
...entire Cabinet and installed a new one containing the chiefs of the army, navy, air force and the paramilitary carabineros. The immediate crisis was sparked by a nationwide truck owners' strike that began on July 26 and has partially isolated Santiago's 3,000,000 residents. Terrorist bands have blown up gasoline pipe lines and dynamited highways. Armed troops now guard gas stations, while Santiagoans in queues several blocks long wait for dwindling supplies of everything from matches to meat. Militant workers have taken over 30 factories in Santiago's "industrial belt," which produces most of Chile...
...agony and outrage over the murder of its athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Israeli government organized a 15-man group of killers to liquidate the leadership of Black September. As Prime Minister Golda Meir bluntly announced: "We would do all we could to strike at the terrorist organizations and their bases wherever we could reach them." In a series of chillingly executed missions, the counter-terror squad has since gunned down at least 13 Arab conspirators in such cities as Paris, Rome, London, Stockholm and Beirut. The team has also aborted, by its estimate, 37 plots against Israel...
Tears and Fire. Fifteen minutes from the city, the skyjackers radioed for permission to land and were refused. Arguing heatedly, they threatened to blow up the plane in the air. Libyan officials finally relented. The Japanese terrorist told the passengers that the skyjacking had been done for the "whole of the world." It was also intended to expose the "imperialism" of Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Japan. Then he started to weep and apologized for "causing everyone so much inconvenience." When the last passenger had left the plane, the skyjackers set fire to it. Reports TIME'S Joseph Fitchett...
With those words, the first Palestinian skyjack of 1973 was under way. The jumbo jet's 123 passengers-all but nine of them Japanese-and 22 crew members were the captives of a terrorist team that evidently included both Palestinians and members of the fanatical Japanese leftist group called Rengo Sekigun (Red Army), which last year staged a massacre at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport that cost 26 lives. Astonishingly, Amsterdam airport authorities had been tipped off beforehand by the Israeli secret service that a skyjacking attempt might be imminent, but they took no special precautions...