Jewish Hostages Separated by Terrorists
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up and asked to state their Ziames,
nationalities and religion. Only the
non-Jews were allowed to board
the bus. Only a few of the Jewish
passengers are said to be Israelis.
An unspecified number of others
reportedly hold both Israeli and
C.S. passports.
Secretary of State William P.
Roger; on Tuesday conferred with
Israel Ambassador Itzhak Rabin.
Britain's Ambassador John Free-
man and charges d'affaires of
West Germany and Switzerland.
Present at the conference at which
the situation was explored were
Assistant Secretary of State for
Near Eastern Affairs Joseph J.
Sisco. Undersecretary. of State L'
Alexis Johnson and various spe-
cialists on the Nfiddle East and
international aviation expert s.
President Nixon remains in close
touch with the situation.. White
House press secretary Ronald
Ziegler said "We are doing all in
our power to bring about the re-
lease of the passengers and the
aircraft."
Sources in Washington said that
short of "sending in the Marines"
there was little the C.S. could do
except continue to resort to di-.310-
macy. One State Department offi-
cial said, "we are responsible for
them to the degree we can be of
help to them." It was obvious that
Washington officials feared that
precipitate action might cause the
terrorists to blow up the three
planes now in Jordan with all pas-
sengers aboard as they have
threatened to do. The U.S. re•
2ortedly asked the Jordanian gov-
ernment to refrain from provoca-
tive action.
The impotence of the Arab gov-
ernments in this situation and their
apparent fear of arousing the ire
of the Palestinian commandos and
the street mobs who support them
indicated that these governments
might be less than free agents in
any peace talks in which they
might participate. Militarily' the
Arab governments have the power
to subdue the guerrillas and cut
off their supplies of arcs and other
equipment. But in countries like
Jordan and Lebanon such action
Hi jacking Fails
to Still Enthusiasm
for Israel Visit
Five days after she, her husbar.d
and three children were involved
in a foiled hijacking attempt by
two Arab terrorists, an Oak Park
woman still insists: "Israel is a
fabulous country; I'd go back
again."
The Josef Feuereisen family of
Rosemary Ave. is probably home
today because of the presence of
an Israeli security guard aboard
the El Al plane that was carrying
them home from Israel. When the
would-be hijackers attempted to
take over the plane Sunday, the
security guard subdued the pair.
One was killed, and the other, a
woman, was disarmed. She is now
being held in London.
There were 144 passengers on
would be almost certain' to pre-
cipitate civil war. President Nas-
ser of Egypt has a firmer grip
than his colleagues ir. A -r-an and
Beirut but is unlikely' to antagonize
the guerrillas and risk the leader-
shpi position in the Arab world
to which he aspires. Washington
sources said.
Israel continues to plead with the
world powers not to yield to ter-
rorism and blackmail. A spokes-
man for the foreign ministry warn-
ed: "Once this sort of blackmail
becomes successful, there will be
no end to it."
The managing director of El Al
Airlines. Mordecai Ben-Ari. issued
similar warnings and urged re-
jection of blackmailers' demands.
If proper precautions are taken,
air piracy can be prevented, El Al
and Israel government officials
insist.
Detroiters Join in Plea on Behalf of Hijacking Victims
Western Union in Detroit report-
ed a flood of telegrams Tuesday
night after Jewish Community
Council President Lawrenre GI:-
bor.; issued an appeal to Council
member organizations to wire the
President secretary of state and
congressmen requesting the i :-
action against hijackings and to
secure the release of the hostages.
Several thousand telegrams had
been sent out by Wednesday night.
The Council alio held an emer-
gency meeting of the executive
committee Wednesday night to
map efforts on behalf of Israel.
JERCSALEM (JTA)--The Knes-
set called on the world's human-
itarian organizations and on public
opinion Nfonday to ensure humane
treatment for Israeli prisoners cf
war in Egyptian and Syrian
hands. A resolution adopted by •he
Knesset's security and foreign
affairs committee urged the "en- ,
lightened nations of the world. -
the International Red Cross and
similar groups to see to it that the
prisoners are treated in strict com-
pliance with the Geneva Conven-
'tion rules.
The committee said that accord-
ing to its information Israeli pri-
soners in Egypt and Syria receiv-
ed inhumane treatment. The com-
mittee called on the Israeli gov-
ernment to increase its efforts to
have the prisoners returned.
The problem of the hijacked
planes and the hostages held by
terrorists in Jordan was discussed
in top-level government circles but
no plan of action was reported.
Israel is awaiting the results of
Red Cross representations. The
official position here is that efforts.
to secure the release of the host-
ages and the aircraft are the re-
sponsibility of the governments
wh ose carriers were hijacked.
Israel holds the Jordanian go•-
ernment fully responsible for the
safety of the hostages. The foreign .
ministry announced Monday that
Israel has made diplomatic repre-
sentations to several governments
urging them to put pressure on
Jordanian authorities to honor
their international obligations. But
Israeli officials concede privately
that the Jordanian government is
powerless to intercede even if It
wanted to.
efforts to free the hostages. The
Swiss Embassy in Tel Aviv and
the Swiss ambassador's residence
in Ramat Gan received anonymous
bomb threats Monday. Police
rushed to the ',scene and found
nothing_
Israelis are contrasting the re-
sistance that foiled an attempt to
hijack an El Al airliner over Bri-
tain on Sunday with the submis-
sion of the two hijacked American
planes and the Swiss airliner. One
of the American planes. a Pan ,
_American jumbo jet forced to
land at Cairo, v-- as blown up by the
terrorist minutes after its passen-;
gers and crew were evacuated. A
TWA. a Swissair and now a BOAC
jet are in terrorist hands in Jor-
dan. Israelis say that this situa-
tion would not have occurred if
other governments and airlines
employed security measures simi-
lar to those that saved the El Al
plane.
The El Al hijack attempt was
foiled when security guards on the
plane shot and killed one of the
hijackers and subdued his female
companion. An Israeli steward
was wounded in the scuffle. But
Cast. Uri Barley, who was piloting
the El Al 707 jet when the hijack
attempt was made, refused to say
who shot the hijacker. "If we are
in Tel Aviv today and not in Am. :
man or Damascus, it is thanks to .
the entire crew. All of them acted!
marvelously," Capt. Barley said.
He said no crew member carried
arms. .He made no reply when
asked by newsmen about the two
armed security guards on his
flight. Capt. Barley said the hi-
jack attempt occurred 21 minutes
after his plane took off from
Amsterdam on a flight to New
York, when it was about 13 nau-
tical miles from the British coast.
A stewardess, Jeanette Dar-
magene, said the tv.•o hijackers
shot the steward when the pilot
refused their demand to open the
door to his compartment.
According to one source, there
were 12 Israeli passengers
aboard the TWA jet hijacked on
a flight from Frankfurt to New
York. Among them reportedly
were a Rabbi Joseph Raful-
Harari and his five children,
Mrs. Tova Cohen and her two
children and a Mrs. Goren with
two children. Several Jews of
U.S. nationality were said to
have been on the plane. They
were identified as a Mrs. Fried-
man and Rabbi Itzhak Hutner of
the Haim Berlin Yeshiva in New
York, his wife, daughter and
son-in-law.
Israelis were infuriated by re-
ports Sunday that the governments .
of Switzerland and West Germany
were ready to surrender to terror.
ist demands for the release df
Arab prisoners held by them in
return for their own nationals. The
public was not mollified by later
reports that the two countries
Minister of Transport Shimon
decided not to make a deal with , Peres said Sunday night that Is-
the terrorists pending diplomatic , rael was demanding the extradition
of Laila Khaled, the female hi- nationals from a British airliner
at Lydda Airport was responsible
jacker aboard the El Al jet.
The El Al Boeing 707 jet with for this wave of hijackings.
148 passengers aboard landed at Comdt. Jacques Landragin, an Air
Kennedy Airport early Monday France pilot, disclosed that he
morning, 12 hours late. had cabled Israeli Foreign Minis-
A crowd of about 500 relatives ter Abba Eban urging the release
and friends of the passengers of the Algerians last week and
galh-ered at Kennedy Airport be. warning him that Arab comman-
fore dawn. They screamed and dos would retaliate. He said he
cheered as the jet landed and never received a reply from Eban.
pushed into the international ar- "We have had a period of relative
rivals building for emotional re- peace up to now, since the Arab
governments had pledged not to
unions with their kin.
Capt. Barley flew home from receive hijackers," the French
pilot
said. "But with the detention
London after reporting briefly to
of the two Algerians last month
Premier Golda Meir and Defense
the
Arab
commandos found a way
Minister Moshe Dayan by tele-
phone. The two security guards to put the Arab governments in a
very
delicate
position." Comdt.
also returned to Israel after being
Landragin implied criticism of the
interrogated by Scotland Yard.
Israeli
crew
that
foiled the hi-
Miss Khaled, who was born
in Haifa, and her male com- jacking of the El Al airliner. "T'ne
panion boarded the El Al flight Israeli crews have the same psy-
at Schipol using Honduran pass- chology as the Palestinians. For
ports. Security checks at the Dutch the rest of us, the safety of our
airport failed to detect the arms passengers is paramount," lie
said.)
they carried.
In addition to the two Algerians,
Miss Khaled was taken into cus- Israel is holding several dozen
tody when the plane made an Egyptian prisoners of war, and
emergency landing at London. some 2,000 Palestinian guerrillas
Peres said the crime was com- are serving time in Israeli jails.
mitted aboard an Israeli aircraft
Last week Israel rescued the 24-
and therefore technically on Is- man crew of a burning Greek
raeli soil. (British authorities re- freighter, 14 of thrm Egyptian na-
portedly have the Israeli extradi- tionals who have been detained.
tion demand under consideration.
According to reports from London Popular Front's Stature to Rise
there was some inclination to re- if It Wins Freedom of Commandos
lease the girl in order to save the
LONDON (JTA) — Observers
hostages in Jordan from terrorist here said that if the Popular
reprisals. The guerrillas have de-
manded the return of Miss Khaled
to Jordan along with the body of
the slain hijacker.)
Israel officials pointed out that
the landing strip at Zerka was
Jordanian territory, though admit-
tedly under control of terrorists
who are backed by Iraqi troops at
Mafraq where King Hussein's
authority is ignored. One official
who asked not to be identified
said, "I am pretty sure they
would not kill the passengers and
crew, and as for the planes, they
are of much less importance than
human lives." A senior official of
El Al said the rash of hijackings
was a direct result of the Greek
government's recent surrender to
terrorist demands. He referred to
the release in Athens last month
of seven Arab terrorists who were
serving jail terms for fatal attacks
on an El Al airliner and the El Al
office there. They were released
after the hijacking of an Olympic
Airways jet and terrorist threats
to kill all of its passengers and
crew.
(In Paris, the vice president of
the French Airline Pilots' Asso-
ciation claimed that Israel's seiz-
ure last month of two Algerian
Front succeeded in freeing Arab
guerrillas jailed abroad, its stock
would soar in the Arab world. The
Front, though far from the largest
of the guerrilla group, is the most
militant and leans to the left. Its
leader, Dr. George Habash, a
self-proclaimed Marxist, has been
described by journalists who have
interviewed him as a "fanatic who
is determined not only to destroy
Israel but to overthrow Arab re-
gimes of which he does not ap-
prove." Success for the Front is
also viewed here as the 'probable
death knell for the regime of King
Hussein of Jordan, whose authority
in his own country is diminishing
rapidly.
Egyptian leaders also apparent-
ly fear a rise in the Popular
Front's stature. The semi-official
Cairo daily AI Ahram was critical
of the hijackings, though did not
go so far as to condemn them.
The paper, a mouthpiece of Presi-
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser, said
Tuesday that "One of the main
goals of the battle (with Israel) is
to gain world public opinion on
the side of the Palestinian strug-
gle and not to lose it. It is evident
that the attack on international
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the plane. Besides the terrorists,
a stewardess was wounded in
the struggle.
The trip to Israel represented
the culmination of a dream for
the Feuereisens, who spent their
three-week vacation visiting rela-
tives.
Their two youngest, Sherrie, 15,
and Andrew, 13, started back to
17,
school Wednesday. Walter,
starts to Wayne State University .
in October.
How do her children feel about
returning to Israel, now that
they'vt , seen the dangers that the
state confronts'.' Mrs. Feuereisen
said her teen-agers would love to
return for a visit, but not to live.
They have six days of school in
Israel. - she explained.
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here guarding two hijacked passenger airplanes in the desert near Amman. At the left in the
and at the right the Swissair DC-8.
Jordanian army vehicles are shown
48—Friday, September 11, 1970 I background is the TWA
707