Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              6 Arab Prisoners in Europe
Included in Deal—Last of
U.S. Hostages Are Home
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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"
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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'
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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
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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