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Under the leadership of one Salah Ghaled, a psychotic with a wallet full of atrocity photos and a rhetorical style normally found only in real life,* they are working up a terrorist attack on Is rael. From Howell's trembling point of view, the plan - which involves radio-controlled rockets and bombs (in plas tic bags) is all too ingenious. From everyone else's, too, come to think...
...Knesset, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir placed the blame on Lebanon, which she accused of "openly enabling the centers of the terrorist organizations to reside in their midst." Lebanon-recalling that Israel had attacked Beirut airport in 1968 and destroyed civilian planes in retaliation for a fedayeen assault on an El Al plane-braced itself for Jerusalem's revenge. Its 18,000-man army was alerted, and the airport put under tight guard; antiaircraft guns could be seen swiveling beside the runways...
Israel's charge against Lebanon was only partly fair. True, the P.F.L.P. operates in Beirut. The three Japanese terrorists were wearing Lebanese-made clothes, according to the Israelis, who also assert-despite P.F.L.P. denials-that the three had been trained in Lebanon. Yet Lebanon, a half-Christian, half-Moslem country and temporary home for 300,000 Palestinians, could contain the terrorists only at grave risk to its own fragile unity. Every time the government has tried to do so, a political crisis has resulted. Lebanon is the handiest target for Israel, but the P.F.L.P. also has headquarters in Paris...
...first terrorist threat to jets was skyjacking, which is being countered in several sophisticated ways. They include body searches and hand-baggage checks by magnetometers that can signal the presence of metal and alert security men to weapons. Such techniques are not totally effective; last week a skyjacker demanding $500,000 took over a Western Airlines plane en route from Los Angeles to Seattle. Another armed skyjacker, asking for $200,000 in cash, charged aboard a parked United Air Lines jet in Reno...
...canisters into the building. Then, after there were screams from the garage, the police commanded the outlaws to take off their clothes and come out one by one. Clad only in dark shorts, the first to surrender was Holger Meins, 30 (left), a key member of the notorious terrorist gang bossed by West Germany's "Bonnie und Clyde"-former Journalist Ulrike Meinhof, 37, and Student Revolutionary Andreas Baader, 29 (TIME, June 5). After a second man also surrendered, police rushed the garage, where they found a big prize. Baader was lying on the floor with a bullet wound...