ARABS HOLD 150 HOSTAGES IN SEIZED JETS IN DESERT; GUERRILLAS SEEK A TRADE

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Associated Press Hijacked Trans World Airlines and jets standing on a desert plateau in Jordan

U.S. and 4 Nations Seek Joint Stand on Detention

By TAD SZULC Special to The New 'lock Times WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 - affecting the entire Middle East Secretary of State William P. situation. Rogers met urgently here to- Coinciding with 's with- day with diplomats from .four drawal from the peace talks in other governments whose air- protest against reported viola- craft and citizens were in- tions of the month-old truce by volved in the Arab commando the United Arab Republic, the hijackings yesterday. hijackings raised basic questions The session was aimed at a about the ability of the Arab joint policy toward the Pales- governments to participate ef- tinian guerrillas' demand for fectively in the peace efforts. the release of imprisoned com- American officials, who be- mandos in return for at least lieve that the aim of the com- 150 passengers on two seized mandos is to hamper the peace airliners. negotiations, noted the in- Later in the day, Mr. Rogers ability of the Egyptian Govern- discussed the hijackings with ment to prevent the guerrillas President Nixon at the White from blowing up a jet of Pan House. American World Airways at As the Middle East drama in- the Cairo Airport and the help- terrupted the Labor Day holi- lessness of the Jordanian army day in Washington and turned to protect two Other airliners the State Department into a in the desert. center of activity, the Adminis- Among the demands report- tration saw the hijackings and their possible consequences as Continued on Page 17, Column 3 U.S. Seeks Joint Stand on Hijackings

Continued From Page 1, Col. 7 Alexis Johnson, and the Assist- to bring about the release of ant Secretary of State for Near the passengers and the air- edly made by the commandos Eastern and South Asian Ai- craft." was the freeing of Palestinian fairs, Joseph J. Sisco. Although the Administration commandos now in Israeli The problem racing the offered no details about its ef- prisons. Israel's insistence that was to evolve a forts to free the two jetliners governments must not "submit common approach to the guer- —the of Trans to blackmail" left the prospects rillas' demands, but after the World Airlines and the DC-8 for a prompt liberation of the day's conferences the State De- of Swissair—and their passen- passengers highly uncertain. partment said the United States gers and crews, State Depart- Other demands by the com- had not yet formuated its own ment officials said there were mandos included the freeing position. no contingency plans for action of their companions in Switzer- Officials said matters might by United States armed forces land, West Germany and Brit- have been better coordinated if to move to their rescue. ain. While Switzerland agreed Switzerland had not acted State Department officials earlier today to let go the three alone, but they recognized her said contacts with the Jordan- Palestinian guerrillas held since right of sovereign decision- ian Government at this stage 1969, Bonn was withholding making in a situation in which covered only the case of an its decision pending Consulta- her citizens and aircraft were unidentified United States Army tions in Washington, and Brit- involved. sergeant who was reportedly ain turned down the demand. Israeli sources said Israeli kidnapped by the guerrillas in Reporting on Mr. Rogers's traditional policy was to oppose on Saturday. conference with diplomats from "horse-trading" practices with There were no known meet- Israel, Britain, West Germany the Arabs. They indicated that ings today with Jordanian Em- and Switzerland, State Depart- unless the Israeli Cabinet de- bassy officials, and the State ment officials said no decisions cided to reverse this policy for Department said the dealings have been reached. humanitarian reasons, the Gov- with Jordan were being han- In the five-nation meeting at ernment was unlikely to release dled by the United States the State Department, Mr. Rog- any of the 3,000 guerrillas and charge d'affaires in Amman, ers conferred with Ambassador other prisoners in its hands. Harry Odell. Itzhak Rabin of Israel, Ambas- Mr. Nixon and Mr. Rogers The impression given here sador John Freeman of Britain; returned to Washington late was that Mr. Odell was not the West German charge d'af- last night from the Western trying to discuss the hijacking faires, Hans H. Noebel, and the White House at San Clemente, situation with Jordanian au- Swiss chargé, Charles Muller. Calif. thorities on the ground that the Attending the conference The White House press secre- Amman Government seemed to were the Under Secretary of tary, Ronald L. Ziegler, said, have little contro% over the situ- State for Political Affairs, U. "We are doing all in our power ation. Pan Am Is Optimistic About Improved

METHODS TO AVERT .5', 1970 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER HIJACKING STUDIED Screening of Use Would Be Limited and L IT Some Airline Officials Are Dubious About Prospects Passengers and Baggage By RICHARD WITHIN The perfection of several de- vices to intensify the screen- several approaches to the prob- believed to be characteristic of ing of passengers and baggage lem of interrupting hijacking hijackers. during loading of airliners is attempts without undue risk. One puzzling aspect of the "just around the corner," the One approach calls for feed- hijackings Sunday was why se- curity precautions had not been director of security of Pan ing a basically harmless gas into the passenger-cabin venti- effective. American World Airways said lation system and temporarily Officials of Trans World Air- yesterday. incapacitating the hijackers lines, which has been a prime The official, Frank Cardman, along with the rest of the oc- victim on international routes said too that the airlines were cupants. The cockpit crew and has put in force one of the most comprehensive screening developing systems for putting could protect themselves with gas masks. systems, indicated that it was down hijacking attempts in Another approach involves in use at Frankfurt. flight. dart guns that would inject As for Pan American, whose But in the aftermath of the hijackers with a substance that jumbo jet was hijacked after hijacking of four United States- would temporarily paralyze take-off from and then blown up on the ground at bound planes by Arab guerril- them. A third alternative would be Cairo, Mr. Cardman said he did las Sunday, he emphasized that, use of so-called "stun guns" not know if magnetometers had to minimize chances of injuring being tested by the police in been in use. bystanders or causing a crash, Berkeley, Calif., for riotcontrol An Israel source in. such measures would be used work. The guns fire small bean said Sunday that the two hi- bags at the speed of a pitcher's jackers of the plane had only when it was felt that they had their belongings checked. insured maximum safety for fast ball. The blow is enough to incapacitate the person hit Efforts were under way to find passengers and crew. but, because it is distributed out how their weapons had "It's not fair to say we're over an =area the size of the gotten by the airline's pro- just going to keep turning air- flexible bag, it is not enough cedures, considered the tough- to kill or inflict serious injury. est in the business. Swissair, planes in the direction the hi- was also seeking to determine jackers want to go," Mr. Card- The main reason for opposi- tion to the use of armed guards how the hijackers of its plane man declared. is the danger that a bullet had escaped detection. Others Less Confident might .destroy the plane, either One problem the airlines ap- parently did not have to worry Other industry sources ap- by causing an explosion in the pressurized cabin at high alti- about immediately was the peared less confident about tude or by severing a control cost of damage to their planes. soon finding relatively safe cable or other vital linkage. All were reported totally in- sured. On the other hand, it ways to stop hijacking once Sniffing for Explosives they get started. And there was expected that insurance The highest hopes for inter- rates would go up. was almost universal opposition cepting hijackers as they board Any passengers injured in a to copying the Israelis' tactic, il- are attached to devices for hijacking could apparently col- lustrated on an El Al plane Sun- sniffing the presence of almost lect limited• payments for day, of carrying armed guards any explosive. It is known that damages regardless of whether and having them use guns in some experimental sniffers are any airline negligence could be already in service, apparently overpowering hijackers. proved. Some passengers were by El Al if not others. reported injured in evacuating To avoid. simplifying the task Over the last year or more of would-be hijackers, the Pan the Pan American jet in Cairo, widening use has been •made for instance. American official declined to of magnetometers, which detect detail the devices being worked the presence of a gun or other on. There has been consider- metallic object as a passenger able talk in the industry about walks by. They are commonly used in conjunction with visual observation of passengers, usually when they buy tickets, to see if they betray traits KENNEDY ARRIVAL IS JOYOUS FOR 148

300 Greet El Al Passengers With Tears and Laughter

By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN With tears, kisses and laugh-1 ter, with spontaneous singing and dancing, 148 passengers sped through customs at Ken nedy Airport this morning, 18 hours and 15 minutes after they were pitched into anxiety by two terrorists who tried to seize their plane, an El Al jet- liner, on route here from Tel girl behina. Aviv. Alfred Khazzam, who was It was 2:30 A.M. when the sitting behind Mrs. Schenk and first of the passengers stepped who speaks , remembers into the lobby of the Interne- that before the man screamed tional Arrivals Building to the he said one word to his accom- cheers and applause of some plice — "Yallah!" Arabic for 300 people. Most of the wel- "Come on!" comers were friends and fam- Within the next minute or ily of the travelers, but there two, all passengers agree, three were others who said they soft pops sounded. There was knew nosone aboard Flight 219, scuffling in the first-class com- one of four United States- partment and the plane went bound planes hijacked Sunday into a sharp dive. and the only one to escape. The man with the gun was Phil Horn, a 32-year-old so- shot and subdued by security cial worker from Teaneck, N. J., agents. Shlomo Vider, a was one of those, and two steward, was wounded. The friends were heading home in woman was felled by some pas- their car when they heard on sengers and her ankles and the radio that the plane was hands were bound. landing. Hurriedly painting Mrs. Schenk noticed the signs saying "Shalom" and "the young woman's purse on the People of Israel Live," they seat. "I thought maybe there went to Kennedy. "We came to were explosives in it, so I bear witness," said Mr. Horn looked," she said. "All I saw "and to say 'Well done' to those was a Honduran passport. Then that lived through these har- we heard we would be going rowing to London." A Feeling of Pride Ralph Alnelah, a 17-year-old student at Forest Hills High School, said: "All day long, I've felt very proud. I mean, I'm Jewish, and well, I felt, here's a people, we dealt with them." One of the passengers, Mrs. Max Schenk, president of Hadassah, told how the hijack- ars boarded in Amsterdam and were seated next to her. "The man was reading The London Times and I was read- ing The Observer and I thought I would ask him to switch when we finished, but I never got a chance," she recalled. "Suddenly," she went on, "after no words at all were said by the couple, he rose and shouted, a scream, a bellow, an animal sound that I will probably always remember and hear in my dreams. He had a small silver pistol and walked up toward the cockpit with the Unilcd Press INS rational

CELEBRATION: Passengers from the hijacked El Al Boeing 707 dancing the hora, an Israeli folk dance, with relatives and friends at Kennedy International Airport. The plane flew from London and arrived here early yesterday morning.

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RECEIVING TREATMENT: A passenger being aided by an official at the airport in Cairo yesterday for minor injuries inflicted during rapid disembarkment from hijacked Pan American 747 jumbo jet. Passengers were told that jetliner would be blown up eightcraft. minutes after landing. Explosive charges went off two minutes after everybody left Israel Urges Rejections of Hijackers' Demands In this mood, there was no special car at the bottom of the By PETER GROSE willingness here to release any steps of their plane and taken gheeIC to The New Toet Ttmee guerrilla prisoners held by Is- into a private airport room JERUSALEM, Sept. 7— where Israel's Minister of The Israeli Government told rael, as the hijacking organiza- tion was 'reportedly demanding. Transport, Shimon Peres, and its ambassadors in Washington top officials of El Al were and major European capitals But dipl&nats said reports were waiting. today to urge government firm- coming in too fast and were too ness against guerrilla demands. Within minutes, according to Officials deplored the Swiss and disjointed for anyone to be sure Israeli sources, they were West German Governments' ap- what was being demanded of called to the telephone to speak parent willingess to free Pal- whom. with Premier Golda Meir in estinian prisoners in exchange So far, Israeli officials refuse Jerusalem, and with Defense for the passengers of two hi- tot accept any responsibility for Minister Moshe Dayan. jacked planes. the three planes successfully Israeli officials are tight- A Foreign Ministry spokes- hijacked yesterday—two of lipped about discussing the pre- man said all concerned should which had earlier flown into cautions against hijacking , hold the Government of Jordan and left Israel's Lod Interna- taken on El Al flights. The two security men were reportedly responsible for the security and tional Airport. They cited the return of the Swissair and. unsuccessful hijacking attempt required to sign papers before Trans World Airlines planes yesterday of a jetliner of El Al, leaving the waiting room pledg- and their passengers, grounded Israel's national airline, as proof ing that they would not discuss at a remote spot in Jordan. that air piracy could be pre- their experiences. The spectacular hijackings vented if adequate precautions The pilot, Capt. Uri Bar-Lev, were a direct outgrowth, Israeli were taken. ducked all questions about se-, officials argued, of the Greek Two Israelis, identified here curity matters when he and the Government's willingness to as security guards on board the drew of the New York-bound free Arab prisoners last month plane returned this evening. El Al flight, were reportedly "None of the crew carries after a Greek Olympic Airlines flown back to Lod Airport after plane had been hijacked and brief questioning 'by Scotland guns," was all he would say held as hostage. "Once this sort Yard in London. about •the reported in-flight of blackmail becomes success-. Arriving shortly after mid- battle that took place between ful," said one official, "there Anisterdarn and London. will be no end to it." night, they were rushed into a Sirhan Has Expected to Be Traded

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Sirhan 13rishara Sirhan - The slim, dark-haired Jor- danian immigrant, convicted whose release was mentioned last year of the murder of in some accounts yesterday Senator Robert F. Kennedy, as an Arab commando de- is in a small cell on death mand in return for the free- row in California's San dom of some 150 hijacked Quentin Prison. He is appeal- passengers—has said in in- ing his death nntk-,:tm. terviews that he expected to During his four-month trial be freed at some time in sim- last year, Sirhan repeatedly ilar fashion. told of his intense hatred of The Popular Front for Senator Kennedy for his es- the Liberation of Palestine, pousal of the Israeli cause which held the hostages, offi- and for his pledges to send cially denied, however, mak- additional United States war ing such a demand. planes to Israel. commandos for the fighting. An official Government spokesman said the commandos had started a mass search of houses in one area of the city and had de- tained several Jordanian sol- diers. He said military and ci- vilian vehicles had been stolen. Television and broadcasting stations outside Amman came under machine-gun and rocket fire and a police post at Wadi Sir, north of Amman, was at- U.S. AIDE SEIZED tacked, the spokesman said. Guerrillas in the center of the city seized a vehicle and its IN JORDAN CAPITAL two occupants, including the driver, while a traffic policeman Sergeant Believed Held by Palestinian Commandos

AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 7 ,Iteuters)—An American ser- geant assigned to the United watched. The guerrillas then States Embassy' here has been drove off through the crowded kidnapped, the embassy an- hilly streets followed by jeeps to nounced today as new violence carrying armed guerrillas and — flared in Amman between Arab the occupants of the captured commandos and Jordanian vehicle. troops. At Al-Wandat refugee camp, main guerrilla stronghold in The sergeant, who was not the Amman area, tension identified, has been missing mounted after commandos since Saturday, and the Jordan- built roadblocks of sandbags. ian Government was trying to King Hussein denied in a get him released, the embassy broadcast last night that he said. was trying to liquidate the ' An embassy spokesman did commando movement. Observ- not identify the kidnappers, but, ers said they believed the un- 74! they were believed to be Pales- scheduled broadcast, the King's tinian commandos. third in eight days, was During commando clashes in prompted by the weekend June, Morris Draper, first sec- clashes. retary at the embassy, was kid- Shortly before the broadcast napped by commandos but re- over Amman radio and tele- leased unharmed after 24 hours. vision, automatic fire and ex Fighting in Amman plosions were heard in the 'Meanwhile,' tialestine com-1 Jebel al-Nuzha area, north of A the city. — mandos and Jordanian security The newspaper , organ forces clashed today in Amman of one Palestinian group, re- and its suburbs despite a two- ferred today to a number of day agreement to ease tension shooting incidents in Amman i in the capital. yesterday and accused the Jor- Most stores were closed and danian authorities of responsi- 1 people stayed in their homes as bility for them. "The Palestin- fighting broke out in various ian revolution will not keep 1i parts of the city. There were re- silent for long and will strike ports of casualties, but no ex- at the heads of the conspiracy," act figures. it said. The two sides agreed Satur- day to pull back forces in Am- man after several clashes last week. Fighting began in various provincial towns during the weekend and later spread to Amman. Weekend fighting added 70 casualties to the 200 reported in Amman last week. The Government blamed the get the answer, but not now.- Continued From Page 1, Col. 8 Swiss Accept Terms 137 of those aboard. Two re- The commandos later added to their terms. They said that mained in Cairo and 30 in the release of an unspecified , where the flight made a number of Arab guerrillas held Stopover. in Israel. A commando spokes- Swiss Accept Plan Spokesmen for the Popular man said that about 3,000 guer- Front in Amman said that the rillas were interned in Israel to Free Comthandos remaining Swissair and T.W.A. and that the exact number passengers — or at least the whose freedom would be re- —Bonn Said to Yield American, British and West quired would be stipulated German men — would be held later. There were indications hostage for the imprisoned that the release of Israeli pas- commandos. They set a dead- sengers and of passengers hold- By LINDA CHARLTON line of 10 P.M. Wednesday, ing dual Israeli and American Arab commandos held as hos- New York time. The exchange citizenship might be linked ape- tages in the , Jordanian desert of the Israelis was a later de- tifically to the freeing of the mand. guerrillas held by Israel. yesterday at least 100 of the There were early reports The Swiss federal and can- passengers aboard two of the from commando spokesmen in four New York-bound jetliners- Beirut that the release of Sir- they Lacked Sunday: As ran7 han B. Sirhan, the assassin of som, the commandos demanded Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the release of Arab guerrillas was also a condition for the Onion& htlerael, Britain, release of the passengers. held - But these reports were de- 5*W:eland . *eV West Oar- nied by the Popular Front in Amman last night. The Beirut spOkesman acknowledged that .The Stabeetteadla..the final decisions for the guerrilla mand, and the West Germans organization were made in Am- reportedly seined .to do 5, man. In Jardello.• 127 The commando demands believed to bis.worace and forced a day of intense diplo- dren, Wee Meted at the matic negotiation in both Eu- rope and the United States, ert plateau • Where the including a meeting of repre- landed, abOut . 70 Miles sentatives of Britain, Israel, Amman, The tereengers were Switzerland and West Germany then taken to a hotel in the with Secretary of State William Jordanian capital,- • P. Rogers in Washington. The tWn planes held in. *no- Return of Body Sought dan were . among the four The release of one of the two jacked by members of the El Al hijackers, 24-year-old The New York Times Sept. 8, 1970 Popular Front for the Libeta- Leila Khaled, was among the Hijacked planes were held tion of Palestine. The aircraft, initial demands made by the on a desert plateau (cross). commandos. Miss Khaled was were: largely responsible for the hi 9A Swissair DC-8 from Zu- tonal (state) governments an- jacking of a T.W.A. 707 to nounced early yesterday that rich, with 155 passengers and Syria in August, 1969, an oper- they had agreed to the terms crew, diverted to the Jordanian ation that was, until Sunday, and had asked the International desert. retarded as the Popular Front's Committee of the Red Cross to *IA Trans World Airlines mast successful undertaking. negotiate the exchange. A spe- The returtV of the body of the cial mission left for Amman ing 707 from Frankfurt, Miss 'Chafed* male CO410egile, 1.51 passengers and crew, ah later. who was shot and killed dur- A spokesman for the West diverted to the "revoluthm ing their attempt to seize the German Interior Ministry said airstrip." jet shortly after it took off from Amstercliun, was another con- after an all-day meeting of liAn El Al Israel Airlines 707 dition set the commandos. Cabinet officials that the Gov- from Amsterdam, whose crew They also demanded the re- ernment "had decided to take and passengers thwarted a mid- measures to counter the ulti- lease of three, Arabs jailed in matum of the kidnappers." air hijacking by two youhg Switzerland for their part' in Later, an authoritative source Arabs, one of whom was killed. an attack on an Israeli air- liner at Zurich's airport last said unofficially that the West All 148 passengers, and a new year, and of three guerrillas German Government planned to crew of 10, arrived in New jailed in West Germany for an release the three commandos. York early yesterday from Lan- attack last February on' Israelis In London, Prime Minister don, where the jet made an at an airport lounge in Munich. Heath met with advisers to emergency landing after the In return, the commandos discuss the British response. No decision was announced abortive :hijacking. offered to free the passengers and crew of the T.W.A. Boeing last night, and another meet- 41A Pan American World Air- 707, valued at about $8-million, ing was scheduled for this ways 747 jumbo jet, hijacked and of the Swissair DC-8, which morning. first to Beirut and then -to an airline spokesman said had T,W,A,'s president, F. C. Cairo, where the $23 - a value of about $10-million. Wiser, said in New York yes- As for the aircraft, a spokes. terday that he was in continual aircraft was blown up on the man in Beirut said: "You win communication with officials of runway minutes after the 169 the State,Department in Wash- passengers and' crew members ington to facilitate the return were evacuated. Late yester- of passengers on the hijacked day a special Pan Am flight flight. T.W.A. released a list of was bringing ,back to New Yolk Continued on Page 16,Columite passengers aboard its flight, and later a list of those pas- sengers who had been taken from the plane to Amman. Swissair declined to release its passenger list on grounds that publication of the• names could endanger the people who are being held. Excited by the success of voice said over the plane's , three of their four hijacking loudspeaker: "Good evening. ' attempts. Sunday, officials of You now have a new captain." the Popular Front seemed to be The passengers, said that the trying to gain as much tactical planes had been undamaged and propaganda advantage as during the desert landing, but possible yesterday. Addressing that two passengers—one with reporters in an information cen- a broken wrist and another ter in downtown Beirut, a spokes- with a broken leg—bad been man said the commandos had treated at Anunan's hospital& blown up the hijacked Pan The released passengers also American jumbo jet in Cairo said they had spent the night to "symbolize our protest strapped into, the plane seats. against the acceptance of the Representativea-Of the Inter- tl American peace plan by the national Committee of the Be United Arab Republic." This Cross were reportedly allowe called for a 90-day cease-fire, to bring blankets and other which began Aug. 7, to allow supplies to thepassengers re- '' indirect peace talks, which have maining in the planes. broken down. Selective Basis Possible Jordanian a Negotiator Spokesmen for the Popular The release of some of the Front indicated that passengers Swissair and T.W.A. passengers might be released on a selec- tive basis, by nationality, with was made, a commando spokes- nr" man said, because "they could British, American and West German men passengers held not endure" conditions aboard in r' the planes. The spokesman said until the young woman held Britain and the three Arabs they were free to go as they ,0 pleased from Amman. Their re- held in West Germany were re- leased, as well as the Arabs in lease came after negotiations Swiss custody. The implied de- ,1 between the commandos and mend for the Israeli exchanged „ was made later. All other passengers would be released, the spokesmen said, and two Indian men were among the passengers allowed Lieut. Gen. Mashur Haditha, to leave for Amman yesterday. the chief of staff of the Jor- In London yesterday, a tele- danian Army. phoned bomb scare led to the The planes, according to Mi- removal of 80 passengers and• chael Clayton of the British crew members from the first El Broadcasting Corporation, are a Al flight from New York, but two-hour drive from Amman, no explosives were found "on a hard plateau, not on an aboard the Boeing 707. The airstrip." bomb threat was received after "Palestine commandos aro 0. the jet arrived and was standing by the aircraft with parked away from the terminal, guns," he said. "The passengers ringed by police cars. AU bag. are inside the aircraft under bage was taken off and the blazing sun amid the bak- - fi searched, and the passengers, ing expanse. In a complete ring who had already reboarded for outside the commandos are the flight to , debarked more than 50 tanks and again. armored cars of the Jordanian In a comment on the foiled Army. Both sides are playing El Al hijacking, a guerrilla an appalling game of bluff. spokesman in Beirut yesterday There is a threat of battle if protested the presence of armed either side makes a false move.", security guards abroad El Al -" There was no formal com- flights as "in a gross violation ment from the Jordanian Gov- '`4 of international law." ernment about the hijackings, o' and no move by the Jordanian ;--0 Army to try to rescue the pas- -1; sengers or to take possession of the planes. The released prisoners were brought to the Hotel Jordan Intercontinental in Jordanian Army buses. One passenger on the Swissair flight, Gerry Tomiatti, a beautician from Queens, said her first indication of a hijacking came when a Some Hijacking Victims Begin To Reach Amman From Desert

AMMAN;Jordan, Sept. 7 (AP) airstrip 25 miles northeast of Tired, dusty and thirsty, some Amman, "dust clouds filled the of the women and children pas- cabin and everyone thought sengers, of Swissair and Trans the plane was on fire," she World Airlines jets hijacked said. "About half the passen- yesterday ,began arriving in gers went down the emergency Amman tonight after being escape chute before we realized freed. by their, Arab guerrilla there was no danger." captors. The 145 passengers and crew They . had. been confined to spent the night with their seat- the planes. under a blistering belts fastened at the guerrillas' sun in the desert northeast of orders. Early today a delegate Amman for 15 hours before the of the International Committee guerrillas decided that about of Red Cross arrived and per- 120 women and children could suaded the guerrillas to permit leave. However, 150 men—Is- the passengers to go to the rest raeli, American, British, West rooms, Miss Tomiatti said. German and Swiss—were still A New York passenger, who hostage by the guerrillas. asked that her name not be Gerry Tomiatti, a beautician used, said that the Swissair from Queens, asked for a drink plane had made a bumpy land- of water when she arrived in ing and stopped quickly to the Jordanian capital. She was avoid colliding with the TWA returning to New York on the plane already down at the Swissair flight when the plane field. was seized by the hijackers. "We had no idea where we The first she knew of the act, landed," 'she said. she said, was when someone A German woman was taken said over the public address to Amman's Italian Hospital system:. "Good evening. You with a broken wrist. Guerrillas now have a new captain." said a man had been treated When the DC-8 landed at the for a broken leg. Associated Press HIJACKERS: From the left, Samir Abdel Maguid, Mazen Abu Melmid and Aly Sayed Aly at Cairo airport after destroying plane. Egyptian authorities held them for questioning. Passengers on T.W.A, Jet

Following is a list of the pas- BOARDED AT FRANKFURT World ALFRED KADABA sengers aboard Trans ADASSI LAPEZ Airlines Flight 741 when it was ADASSI VASQUEZ BORMEISTER McBRIDE, Jana hijacked to Jordan Sunday. The BORMEISTER ORTLINGHAUS names of passengers on another CULLEN PELIKAN, Miss CULLEN PITTARDO, C. plane hijacked to Jordan, a DESCHKE, R. B. POLLET, R. B. Swissair jet were not available. DESCHKE ROGERO DESCHKE ROGERO According to reports from Jor- DESCHKE SWANSON dan, about 80 women, children FALLDINE SMITH FREDEA STRAUSS, D. and old people have been freed HOLLINGSWORTH TEMEL and some male passengers will HOLLI NGSWORTH WARNOCK names HAMDAN ZAUN ER be released later. Their BOARDED AT were not disclosed. BURNETT, T. T. CAIN, J. A second list, which appears BURNETT, Mrs. T. T. CAIN, Mrs. RI DENHOUR, Walter CAIN, (Infant) after the main list, contains RIDENHOUR, Mrs. P. JACOBSON, Mrs. S. names of passengers on Flight BOARDED AT BOMBAY 741 who, according to T.W.A., DAVE GUP RAO JABBEN are now housed in the Inter- RAO MORSE continental Hotel in Amman, RAO MECKONI MOHAN KOTHARI Jordan. Discrepancies are due PALCONDIMAR KANATANI to fragmentary nature of re- THIMAS KANATANI GUPTA PALGONIA ports. GUPTA PATEL GUPTA OMPRAKASH BOARDED AT TEL AVIV BERKOWITZ (infant) BOARDED AT BANGKOK HARARI, Rafoul, SCHWARTS, R. N. Rabbi JANKOLOVITZ (child) WOODS, J. L. HARARI, Rafoul, Mrs. JANKOLOVITZ (child) HOUSED N HOTEL HARARI, Rafoul JANKOWLOVITZ, ADASSI, Daiwish KANATANAT, Shirley (child). Mrs. E. ADASSI, Yvonne KOTHARI, Jaya S. HARARI, Rafoul SPUNGIN, Mr. A. BORMEISTER, Marlys McBRIDE, Jayne (infant). SPUNGIN, Mrs. Z. GAIN, Lennett MOHAN, Kumar), HARARI, Rafoul MELTZER, Mr. M. CAIN, L. L. (infant) MOHAN, Lakshmi (infant). RAAB (child) CAIN, Mary ORTL I NGHAUS, Rose HARARI, Rafoul RAAB, Mr. M. CULLEN, Heidi PALONDICAR, M. C. (infant). RAAB, Mr. D. CULLEN, Ingebora PATEL, Ashvin N. HARARI, Rafoul RAAB, Mrs. M. DAVE, Rainikant PELIKAN, Christel (infant). RAAB, Y. (child) GUPTA, M. C. POLLET„ Sofia HARARI, RAW RAAB, T. (child) GUPTA, Mantu PORTER, Nancy (infant). FI N KELSTE I N, GUPTA, Menu PRAKASH, 0. M. BERGER, Miss M. Miss E. GUPTA, Santush SMITH, Ruth HERMAN, Miss M. FINKELSTEIN, HAMDAN, Abdullas SWANSON, John DAYAN, Miss J. Mrs. E. JABBEN, Zahera THOMAS, Saraia LESTER, N. (child) SEDER, Miss R. KANATANAT, Santosh WARNOCK, Sheila LESTER, N. (child) TRACHMAN, J.(child) GRUBLER, Miss E. MORAINE, T. (child) MALKA, Miss S. FUND, Mr. M. Denmark Won't Extradite KOSOKOWSKI, Mrs R. DRILLMAN, Rabbi Y. ROTH, Miss HUNTER, Rabbi Y. GOREN, Master A. HUNTER, Mrs. Y. Pole Who Hijacked a Plane GOREN, Miss N. DAVID, Mrs. J. MILLER, Mr. B. DAVID, Rabbi J. COPENHAGEN, Sept 7 (AP) HOROWITZ, M. HODES, Miss (infant) HODES (child) —The Danish Government de- FINSTEIN, Mr. CHESLIER, Miss P. cided today against extraditing EINSTEIN, Mrs. PORTER, Miss N. EINSTEIN, Miss MENSCH, Miss B. Zbigniew Iwanicki, a 29-year- NEWTON, Mrs. H. SIEGEL, Miss A. old Polish butcher who hijacked United Press International NEWTON, Mr. J. SHAIN, Mr. M. GOLDSCHMIDT, GROSSMAN, A. a Polish airliner with 23 pas- FOILED IN REPEAT HIJACKING: Leila Khaled, 24, after Miss D. (child) sengers and forced it to land in ROSMAN, H. (child) GROSSMAN, Mrs. T. she helped hijack a T.W.A. jet to , Syria, last ROSMAN, L. (child) GROSSMAN, M.(child) Copenhagen on June 5. The de has appeared many times ROSMAN, Mrs. E. HOROWITZ, Mrs. J. cision was made in the face of August. The photograph above KAHN (child) EINSTEIN, Mrs. B. KAHN (child) EINSTEIN (child) official pressure by Poland. in European and Israeli publications. Her male colleague KAHN, Mrs. T. HIRSCH, Mr. Justice Minister Knud Thes- BERKOWITZ, Mrs. G. HIRSCH, R. (child) was shot and killed during attempt to seize El Al jetliner trup said that however much on Sunday and she was taken into custody in London. Her BERKOWITZ Dr. 6. KOSTEI2, M7.. V. the Danish Government de- release was demanded by the Popular Front for the Libera- nounced hijackings there would tion of Palestine. She belongs to the organization. A GIVE A KID A CAMP. be little preventive effect from VIA FRESH AIR FUND. extraditing the Polish hijacker. Honduran passport was found in a purse she was carrying.

Legal Help for Hostages Is Lacking posed by the kidnapping of out, on the grround that they By JAMES M. NAUGHTON two Americans, Dan A. would be used to protect Amer- Special to The New Vat Tama Mitrione and Dr. Claude L Fly, icans. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—In by Uruguayan rebels last But in the airline hijacking the view of legal experts, the month. the State Department is said to United States appeared power- In that instance, the United believe that it would not help less today to obtain the release States response was limited to to send troops to the resucue. of some 150 airline passengers diplomatic overtures toward Jordan Not in Control and crew members held hostage the Uruguayan Government, The situation is complicated by Arab guerrillas in Jordan. which refused to meet a guer- by the apparent inability of the "I think of the law as simply rilla demand for the release Jordanian Government to con- having a hole here," said Frank of political prisoners. Mr. trol the .Palestinian guerrillas. E. Loy, a vice president of Pan Mitrione was killed and Dr. The Tokyo anivention.cover- American World Airways who Fly is believed to be held still by ing air piracy, which went into was, until this year, a. State the rebels. The United States did nothing effect last year, stipulates that Department legal expert on air a nation in which a hijacked piracy. to discourage two other Latin- plane lands must permit pas- The chief concern of the American governments from sengers and crew to continue United States was for the meeting the demands of kidnap- pers in earlier cases involving their journey as soon as prac- safety of the Americans aboard ticable. the Trans World Airlines and capture of American officials. C. Burke Elbrick, the Ameri- The United States is a party Swissair jets hijacked yester- to the international agreement, day over Europe. can Ambassador to Brazil, was released after 78 hours of cap- but Jordan is not, and the guer- Short of armed intervention tivity in exchange for the free- rillas have no legal standing in- in Jordan, which the State De- dom of 15 political prisoners. ternationally. partment said was not being An Air Force attaché in Santo Mr. Rabin called again for contemplated, there was little Domingo, Lieut. Col. Donald J. some sort of new international' the United States could do ex- Crowley, was freed in March compact under which airlines cept continue to resort to after the Dominican Republic would agree to boycott those diplomacy. countries that failed to deal released 19 political prisoners. firmly with hijackers. Limitations Underscored The only direct American For the present, however, "We are responsible for them, alternative when another gov- ernment refuses to meet de- the safety of the captured pas- to the degree we can be of help mands of rebels, or, in the case sengers in Jordan appeared to to them," a State Department of the airplane hijackers, Arab depend largely upon the guer- spokesman said. His comment guerrillas, would be to send rillas and Israeli responses to underscored the limitations on United States troops to guaran- their demands. the amount of American help tee the safety of citizens or "The dilemma is clear," said that could be made available. secure their release. a State. Department official. Among the guerrilla demands President Johnson sent troops "Either surrender to their terms is the release of an unspecified to the Dominican Republic in or don't. Hopefully, we can find number of commandos held in 1965, after civil turmoil broke some options in between." Israeli prisons. But Itzhak Ra- bin, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, indicated follow- ing a meeting with Secretary of State William P. Rogers that his Government would not ac- cede to the demand. "No one should Submit to blackmail," said Mr. Rabin. "We look upon governments whose carriers were hijacked for the release of all passen- gers." The State Department thus appeared to have been placed in a dilemma similar to that 16 THE NEW YORK T ES, TUESDAY, Hijackers in ar) They ..,Blew

SEPTEMBER 8, 1970 in Retaliation for U S. Support of Israel to escape fast after landing, asking them to take off their shoes for the slide down the Warn That Oil Property chute. We put the shoes in blankets to throw them, but some got lost." Egyptian au- thorities gave Shoes to passen- Of Americans Is Next gers who arrived in the terminal in their stockings. By RAYMOND IL ANDERSON The hijackers were "very friendly," and showed "exem- • *wig to The New Tort Time plary manners" to the pas- CAIRO, Sept. 7—Left-wing sengers, Mr. Van Aalst said, Palestinian guerrillas wh ohi - except tnree—two injurer pas- adding that, one helped carry an jacked a Pan American jumbo sengers and the husband of one. injured woman in a blanket jet to Cairo and blew it up on' The wreckage of the $23-mil- from the plane. the runway minutes after land- lion jet was being cleared from ing this morning told passen- the runway this afternoon. The Motives Were Explained gers the action was in retalia- only sections still intact of the Dr. James Helme, a pediatri- tion for support of Israel by 355-ton, six-story-high plane cian from Nashville, said that the United States and warned were the tail and a portion of the hijackers, nervous at first, that American - operated oil the left wing. had soon calmed down and be- wella would be next. The jet was hijacked by two gan talking with pessengers. The was torn by guerrillas of the Marxist- They explained their motives explosions less than two min- oriented Popular Front for the and the objectives of the Pales- utes after the 173 passengers Liberation of Palestine. The hi- tinian movement. and crew members, as well as jackers, described by passen- "We are going to blow up the two Palestinan hijackers and gers as "perfect gentlemen," this plane and after that it will an explosives expert who joined said that the seizure of the be the American oil wells," the plane in Beirut, had slid plane was coordinated with oth- one of the hijackers told Dr. down escape chuteS and scram- er hijackings yesterday. Helme. bled away across the surround- The popular Front for the One of the planes was hi- ing desert sand. Liberation of Palestine is jacked, the Palestinian said, so About half a dozen passen- frowned upon by the Egyptian it and its passengers could be gers were injured in the escape leadership. Dozens of its mem- held as hostages for the release and some were hospitalized. bers have been expelled from of Sirhan B. Sirhan, the Pales- The hijackers had said the ex- Cairo in• recent weeks because tinian immigrant to the United plosives would not go off until of hostility to Cairo's accept- States who was convicted of eight minutes after Ihe evacu- ance of the United. States set- the murder of Robert F. Ken- ation of the plane. tlement initiative. nedy. There were conflicting re- The treatment accorded the Dr. Alan Shalita of the New ports about the number of per- three coMniandos who brought York University Medical Cen- sons on the 747, but John G. the plane here is uncertain. Al ter said the hijackers had check- O'Neill, the Pan American Abram,, the semiofficial Cairo ed passports of all the passeng- World Airways manager in ers, and had asked passengers Cairo, put the total' at 155 pas- newspaper obliquely criticized their occupations. They also sengers, 14 crew members and the hijacking, saying that the asked if there were any Israeli four "Pan American personnel." should seek the citizens aboard. Waiting in Lounge support of world opinion, not "They told us they didn't like antagonize it. the United States but liked the Apart from those hospital- American people, didn't like ized, the passengers and crew The plane landed in Cairo at 4:23 A.M., local time (9:23 P.M., Israel but had no hatred of were taken to the airport tran- Jews," Dr., Shalita said. sit lounge to await a special Sunday, New York time.) Capt. J. W. Priddy, the chief flight from London to take "The hijackers told us the pilot, who had taken his wife them to New York, the destina- plane would be blown up, but for her first flight on a jumbo tion, of the jet when it left Am- they said it so politely and with jet, said that the hijackers had sterdam yesterday. such smiles that we couldn't forced him to fly low over The special flight left Cairo take this, too seriously," re- Cairo several times before al- late this afternoon with all the called Cornelius Van Aalst, the lowing him to land, suspicious passengers,, and crew members jet's flight service supervisor, in that he might have flown to the airport restaurant this some other city. morning. He added: we got everyone ready

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