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6 Arab Prisoners in Europe Included in Deal—Last of U.S. Hostages Are Home cila| the Palestinian woman' jcommando who tried unsucc'ess-j (fully to hijack an airliner 2-1 ..days ago, was released from ;!prison tonight and flown out, jjof the country. The Royal Air. Force plane j carrying Miss Khaled headed for West ■ Germany and Switzerland to pick up the six- Palestinians who had becn detained there. The developments followed ■jan agreement tonight by thc '.jlJritish, Swiss and West German '.Governments to release the "j;seven Palestinians they held! j|and fly them to Cairo.' The three Governments had vowed; not to free the Pales-1 tinians until the guerrillas hadj released the last of the airline) hostages they had held in Jordan. ', (The last five hostages re- tiirned to New York Wednesday, to be met by police cars that whisked three of them home before sundown and the start of the Jewish New Year.] Tight-Security Operation After the last six hostages were handed over yesterday to officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Amman, the tight-security operation to fly the freed Palestinians to Cairo was set in motion. The British, West German; and Swiss Governments had| been working closely on the' prisoner question since the; Palestinian guerrillas hijackec" ■th~i-eeJe^'fi="l"T hxhei-XJX I fmort hosta" 1 ' _^„ ^. „ . . _! mediately to their homes in West Germany has held Mo- Jfirooklyn, and a third Orthodox I hammed Hadidi, 24; Mohammed ljew> after pausing to talk jel-Hamafi, 24; and Abder Rah-] ,bricfly with newsmen, was man Saleh, 21, in Munich since [driven to a friend's house in Feb. 10 after they were cap-! {white Plains, tured at Riehm Airport there 1 Dr. Gerald Berkowitz; a following bomb attacks in the chemistry professor, was met transit lounge and at an air- I by his wife. Ruth and their, port bus. An Israeli was kilted "2-year-old daughter, Talia. Be-' and several were wounded in ,[fore the Berkowitz family set! [the attacks. The public prose-; j0ff for Westchester, he joined' cutor bad been preparing, jthe two other passengers. Dr.| Robert N.-Schwartz and James L. Woods, in talking aboutj their experiences as captives' ransoE VAN Gt'-'f ians cudeatb, ff^U MissAverses i t teacher.Athen *"* Sept. rMSSLm jack a J.Uho^'s airliner. \ mpu-*-"5 killed by U The aboard laiA " Bn< then flew Mfflffigj 'charges against them. | The three detained by the; iSwiss were Mohammed Abu al-, jHaija. 24; Ibrahim Tawfiki Jin "northern Jordan. Youssef, 34. and Miss Aminal Dahbur, a 22-year-old teacher. All three have been serving 12- year sentences since last De-1 cember after being convicted of, launching a machine-gun and1 grenade attack on an El Ali airliner at Zurich in which an: Israeli crew member was killed, j Miss Khaled, who had been' detained in a windowless cell1 ■' under armed guard at Ealing' about eight miles west of Lon-, don, was smuggled out in an ordinary police van under the. noses of more than 100 waiting newsmen. She was driven to nearby Northolt Airport, where she boarded a helicop-j ter for Lyneham. Government officials were claiming for Prime Minister! Heath a large share of the| credit in concluding the diffi-. cult exchange. At the same! time it was pointed out that Britain had little if anythingi to gain by holding Miss Khaled. Israel had sought her extra-. dition. The seized planes, a Pan' American World Airways Boe-J ing 747 was blown up Sept. 6. at Cairo International Airport. Thc others, a Trans World Airways 707. a Swissair DC-8 and a- •.. a. m a i ... a./- . The five men, including Rab-' bi Abraham Harari-Rafoul and Rabbi Yascf Harari-Rafoul, had been taken off their iairliner. Sept. 7. • The sixth man 'n the group,' John A. Hollingsworth. an American diplomat in Algiers,'- flew to • Bonn yesterday after, his release. Dr. Berkowtiz said he be-; lieved that the civil war in' Jordan had-been the principal' reason for the delay in the-re-j lease and that one attempt toj move thern to Amman last' week .failed because the roadj was under.fire. . ,• "There was never any sug- gestion'that we would not get home safely," he1 added. He said also that he believed the Egyptians had played a key role in organizing the release because a second secretary at the Egyptian Embassy acted as intermediary.' The-six hostages were kept in a house across the street from the Irbid headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Dr. Schwartz, an employe of the United States Defense Department in Bangkok, said that the Jordanian Army "shelled] .a British Overseas Airways VC- |and strafed the ^ without ,10 hijacked Sept. 9 were ,any particuiar care.» He said iblown up Sept. 12 on the des- the guerrmas appeared to be )ert airstrip about 40 miles from |..fairly well organized." Dis- Amman. The passengers were set free at irregular intervals by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the militant group responsible for the hijackings.' Home in Police Cars By DAVID SHIPLER The Oast hostages held in' cipline was good, they allowed no women, no alcohol, no gambling," he said. | Dr. Berkowitz stressed that they were treated well and "never searched" and that the Jews in the group were given "food we could eat." The choice of six men. Dr.* Schwartz said, was 'made on' Jordan "since their jets were hi-'Jthe basis of location, in the jacked Nearly this month re-"case of Dr. Berkowitz and the turned - vesterday,-to be met Hwo rabbis, who he said were by police cars that whisked ^sitting in the first seats in the three, of; them' home before' sundown and the; start of the' Jewish_ New Year.' ■ ' • | I The " fiVe hostages stepped' from a Trans World Airlines ,flight from Athens at 5:40 P.M.' |Two of them, both Orthodox [rabbis, .were driven off im-,' plane's tourist section. The others were chosen, he said because they each carried t United States Government pass' port. 1 He said the commandos were not interested in us as persons who had any special job." . Delay in Israeli Move Seen ] JERUSALEM, Sept. 30—There was no sign here than any pris-', oners would be released, despite persistent reports that the Is-' raelis plan to release two A1-, J geriahs and 10 Lebanese as "a (humanitarian gesture." Z-Ait\ OcXT ff9* i ft was'-ccnain-flTat'-notning ■would be done during the ob- 'servances; that began at sun-' down ."tonight, but it was ex-| peeled that' after an interval thc Israelis would release some .prisoners. *■• j
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Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972 |
Box Number | 136 |
Folder Number | 05 |
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Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
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Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972 |
Box Number | 136 |
Folder Number | 05 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
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Transcript | 6 Arab Prisoners in Europe Included in Deal—Last of U.S. Hostages Are Home cila| the Palestinian woman' jcommando who tried unsucc'ess-j (fully to hijack an airliner 2-1 ..days ago, was released from ;!prison tonight and flown out, jjof the country. The Royal Air. Force plane j carrying Miss Khaled headed for West ■ Germany and Switzerland to pick up the six- Palestinians who had becn detained there. The developments followed ■jan agreement tonight by thc '.jlJritish, Swiss and West German '.Governments to release the "j;seven Palestinians they held! j|and fly them to Cairo.' The three Governments had vowed; not to free the Pales-1 tinians until the guerrillas hadj released the last of the airline) hostages they had held in Jordan. ', (The last five hostages re- tiirned to New York Wednesday, to be met by police cars that whisked three of them home before sundown and the start of the Jewish New Year.] Tight-Security Operation After the last six hostages were handed over yesterday to officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Amman, the tight-security operation to fly the freed Palestinians to Cairo was set in motion. The British, West German; and Swiss Governments had| been working closely on the' prisoner question since the; Palestinian guerrillas hijackec" ■th~i-eeJe^'fi="l"T hxhei-XJX I fmort hosta" 1 ' _^„ ^. „ . . _! mediately to their homes in West Germany has held Mo- Jfirooklyn, and a third Orthodox I hammed Hadidi, 24; Mohammed ljew> after pausing to talk jel-Hamafi, 24; and Abder Rah-] ,bricfly with newsmen, was man Saleh, 21, in Munich since [driven to a friend's house in Feb. 10 after they were cap-! {white Plains, tured at Riehm Airport there 1 Dr. Gerald Berkowitz; a following bomb attacks in the chemistry professor, was met transit lounge and at an air- I by his wife. Ruth and their, port bus. An Israeli was kilted "2-year-old daughter, Talia. Be-' and several were wounded in ,[fore the Berkowitz family set! [the attacks. The public prose-; j0ff for Westchester, he joined' cutor bad been preparing, jthe two other passengers. Dr.| Robert N.-Schwartz and James L. Woods, in talking aboutj their experiences as captives' ransoE VAN Gt'-'f ians cudeatb, ff^U MissAverses i t teacher.Athen *"* Sept. rMSSLm jack a J.Uho^'s airliner. \ mpu-*-"5 killed by U The aboard laiA " Bn< then flew Mfflffigj 'charges against them. | The three detained by the; iSwiss were Mohammed Abu al-, jHaija. 24; Ibrahim Tawfiki Jin "northern Jordan. Youssef, 34. and Miss Aminal Dahbur, a 22-year-old teacher. All three have been serving 12- year sentences since last De-1 cember after being convicted of, launching a machine-gun and1 grenade attack on an El Ali airliner at Zurich in which an: Israeli crew member was killed, j Miss Khaled, who had been' detained in a windowless cell1 ■' under armed guard at Ealing' about eight miles west of Lon-, don, was smuggled out in an ordinary police van under the. noses of more than 100 waiting newsmen. She was driven to nearby Northolt Airport, where she boarded a helicop-j ter for Lyneham. Government officials were claiming for Prime Minister! Heath a large share of the| credit in concluding the diffi-. cult exchange. At the same! time it was pointed out that Britain had little if anythingi to gain by holding Miss Khaled. Israel had sought her extra-. dition. The seized planes, a Pan' American World Airways Boe-J ing 747 was blown up Sept. 6. at Cairo International Airport. Thc others, a Trans World Airways 707. a Swissair DC-8 and a- •.. a. m a i ... a./- . The five men, including Rab-' bi Abraham Harari-Rafoul and Rabbi Yascf Harari-Rafoul, had been taken off their iairliner. Sept. 7. • The sixth man 'n the group,' John A. Hollingsworth. an American diplomat in Algiers,'- flew to • Bonn yesterday after, his release. Dr. Berkowtiz said he be-; lieved that the civil war in' Jordan had-been the principal' reason for the delay in the-re-j lease and that one attempt toj move thern to Amman last' week .failed because the roadj was under.fire. . ,• "There was never any sug- gestion'that we would not get home safely," he1 added. He said also that he believed the Egyptians had played a key role in organizing the release because a second secretary at the Egyptian Embassy acted as intermediary.' The-six hostages were kept in a house across the street from the Irbid headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Dr. Schwartz, an employe of the United States Defense Department in Bangkok, said that the Jordanian Army "shelled] .a British Overseas Airways VC- |and strafed the ^ without ,10 hijacked Sept. 9 were ,any particuiar care.» He said iblown up Sept. 12 on the des- the guerrmas appeared to be )ert airstrip about 40 miles from |..fairly well organized." Dis- Amman. The passengers were set free at irregular intervals by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the militant group responsible for the hijackings.' Home in Police Cars By DAVID SHIPLER The Oast hostages held in' cipline was good, they allowed no women, no alcohol, no gambling," he said. | Dr. Berkowitz stressed that they were treated well and "never searched" and that the Jews in the group were given "food we could eat." The choice of six men. Dr.* Schwartz said, was 'made on' Jordan "since their jets were hi-'Jthe basis of location, in the jacked Nearly this month re-"case of Dr. Berkowitz and the turned - vesterday,-to be met Hwo rabbis, who he said were by police cars that whisked ^sitting in the first seats in the three, of; them' home before' sundown and the; start of the' Jewish_ New Year.' ■ ' • | I The " fiVe hostages stepped' from a Trans World Airlines ,flight from Athens at 5:40 P.M.' |Two of them, both Orthodox [rabbis, .were driven off im-,' plane's tourist section. The others were chosen, he said because they each carried t United States Government pass' port. 1 He said the commandos were not interested in us as persons who had any special job." . Delay in Israeli Move Seen ] JERUSALEM, Sept. 30—There was no sign here than any pris-', oners would be released, despite persistent reports that the Is-' raelis plan to release two A1-, J geriahs and 10 Lebanese as "a (humanitarian gesture." Z-Ait\ OcXT ff9* i ft was'-ccnain-flTat'-notning ■would be done during the ob- 'servances; that began at sun-' down ."tonight, but it was ex-| peeled that' after an interval thc Israelis would release some .prisoners. *■• j |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
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