Terror Plot Foiled at Rome Airport

20—Friday, March 23, 1973

THE .DETROIT JEVHSH NEWS

Khartoum murderers had in the main hall of the "Cite
BY BEN JUAREZ
name also was in the diary duced a ball of fire 25 feet in response to questions follow- finished and left the Leban- Universitaire."
JTA. Rome Correspondent
and was mentioned by a
The London monthly "Free
that rose to 50 to ing a claim by the Black Sep- ese base.")
ROME (JTA)—Police said French woman who also is diameter
In Brussels four Jewish Palestine," which is spon-
75
feet.
"Anyone
within 100 tember terrorist organization
Wednesday they believe four undergoing questioning.
yards would have been that it was responsible for students were injured when sored by the Palestine Liber-
briefcases containing subma-
erupted between pro- ation Organization and run
Milan police have arrested killed," he said.
Glitzer's murder because he fighting
chine guns and grenades a nephew of the late fascist
Palestinian
pro-Israeli by El Fatah, announced that
According
to
the
FBI,
al-
was an Israeli agent. Glitzer's groups at the and
found at Leonardo da Vinci leader Halo Balho in connec-
University
of the national chairman of the
airport Monday were brought tion with a series of bombings Jawari arrived in the U.S. body was flown home March Brussels.
Young Liberals, Peter Hain,
from
Canada
in
January.
An
14
for
funeral
services
March
here by at least three Arabs in Italy in 1969.
The groups clashed when will contribute an article to
Arab informer reportedly 15.
flying from Tripoli, Libya.
more than 100 Arab and left-
The man is Claudio Orsi, 42,
The body of Alexander wing students attacked a its next issue on the sub-
They said the suspects have known for his past devotion identified al-Jawari as the
ject, "Why I Support Pal-
key
person
in
the
terrorist
Levin,
a
security
officer
at
aready left the country.
Jewish student stand set up estinians."
to right-wing, anti-Semitic plot.
the Israeli Embassy in Paris
• The police said they still do and,
more recently, Palestin- Heavy Security for QE2
who accidentally shot himself
not know whether the brief- ian causes.
Passengers Bound for Israel to death March 9, was flown
cases were brought here for
The arrest comes in the
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Elabor- home for burial March 14.
pickup by a terrorist gang course
of investigation into ate security precautions will Tekoah Raps Egypt
which never kept the appoint- the murky
series of events be in effect aboard the Queen for Exploiting Tragedy
ment or whether the suspects that culminated
with the Elizabeth 2 when the giant of Airliner Disaster
themselves planned a terror- bombing of a Milan
bank in liner arrives in Israeli waters
ist action but abandoned the
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
December 1969, with the loss next month with 1,700 passen- (JTA)—Israel
weapons because of strict se- of
has accused
16
lives.
gers who will attend Israel's Egypt of using the Feb. 21
curity measures at the air-
In Paris, two persons, be- 25th anniversary celebrations. Libyan airliner disaster for
port.
to be members of the
According to information "purposes of continued prop-
The briefcases were found lieved
September gang, who from Cunard Line headquar- aganda
between chairs at three exit Black
against Is-
AT MT. CLEMENS
were arrested by French ters in London. the ship will rael" and warfare
gates. Each contained a Ster- criminal
charged
that Egypt
police
last
Saturday
ling submachine gun, four may be the terrorist organi- carry a team of •anti-terrorist had no intention of cooperat-
Completely Remodeled and Under New ManagemeAll
clips of ammunition with 48 zation's leaders in France, experts. Armed guards will ing in arrangements "that
rounds to a clip, a hand gre- according to unconfirmed re- be stationed on the bridge, in would avert such 'disasters in
the engine rooms and in the the future."
nade and a smoke bomb.
wireless cabins. Magnetic and
Police here do not exclude ports.
The charges were made in
OPENS PASSOVER 1973
Sources
close
to
French
electronic checks will be a letter to the Security Coun-
the possibility that an attack
• All luxurious, modern rooms with RCA Color TV,
counter-intelligence agencies made of passengers' baggage cil from Yosef Tekoah, Is-
was planned at the Rome said
Direct-dial Phones, Private Bathroom, and Individ-
it was highly unlikely
Airport itself, where two El that the Black September has when they board at South- rael's ambassador to the UN.
ual Heat and Air Conditioning Controls.
The letter was in reply to a
Al airliners were parked at established its headquarters ampton, April 15.
• Kosher Dining Room Supervised by the Detroit
The 66,000-ton French liner March 12 letter to the Secur-
about the time the briefcases or even operational bases on
Council of Orthodox Rabbis.
France is also due at Haifa ity Council from the Egyptian
were discovered on Monday. French territory.
during the 25th anniversary UN mission charging Israel
RESERVATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED
However, as is usual prac-
There has been no official
WRITE OR CALL NATHAN LITVIN, MGR. DIR.
tice, the Israeli aircraft were confirmation of the general celebrations with more than with intentionally downing
kept some way away from the belief that Saturday's arrests 1,000 passengers. There has the Libyan airliner.
(A report to the Christian
main terminal building and stemmed from the detention been no information from the
surrounded by special anti- last week of two Arabs de- French Line regarding se- Science Monitor from• Beirut
30 South Gratiot • Mt. Clemens, Mich. 48043
curity precautions.
by John K. Cooley reveals
terrorist squads.
scribed as Jordanians who
1(313)468-6812
The QE-2 and the France, that on March 15 there was
Suspicion rested on the were carrying large quanti-
three Arabs after police ques- ties of explosives in their car the world's largest passenger an unsuccessful attempt to
tioned all airline and airport with the alleged intentions of ships, will be the largest pas- attack an Israel El Al air-
employes on duty that day. blowing up the Jordanian and senger vessels ever to call at liner carrying Jewish emi-
grants from Russia at An-
A Pan American ticket clerk Israeli embassies in Paris. Israeli ports.
According to reports from kara airport. The report by
said men carrying briefcases
According to one report,
identical to those found had the Jordanians were deliver- London, some members of Cooley was from a story in
arrived from Tripoli with tic- ing the explosives to the two the QE2 crew have asked the the Beirut newspaper Al-
kets to Belgrade, one aboard persons arrested Saturday. National Seainen's Union to Nahar which stated that
demand a "danger bonus" Turkish security forces
the Libyan Arab airliner and
An El Fatah spokesman in from Cunard for the trip. thwarted
the plans of a "sui-
two aboard Alitalia.
Beirut said that the pair ar-
crewmen have report- cide commando.")
The clerk said that after a rested with the carload of ex- Some
•
• per person double occupancy.
heated discussion, the men plosives were not members dly asked permission to sign Eagleton Says Diplomat
plus 10% tax and service
off
for
the
voyage
to
Israel.
Slain
in
Khartoum
Because
asked him to give them seats of his organization and had
Any substantial defection He Sought a Dialogue
for Beirut instead of Bel- not been entrusted to carry
by crew members might
BOSTON (JTA) — Sen.
grade. He said his suspicions explosives for El Fatah.
cause the cruise to be can-
F. Eagleton (D.,
were aroused when they re-
Security at all embassies in celed, costing Cunard nearly Thomas
Mo.) said here that "There is
fused to use the ongoing por- The Hague hds been rein-
1.200,000 pounds sterling in evidence" that George C.
tions of their tickets but in- orced. Additional protection charter
fees.
Moore, one of the two Ameri-
stead changed money and has also been provided to all
Israel
and American air- can diplomats murdered by
bought new tickets. He thus Dutch ofices and businesses line officials
have been Black September terrorists in
had no way of checking whe- considered likely terrorist
that Palestinian ter- Khartoum, Sudan March 1,
ther the Arabs' names they targets. Stepped-up controls warned
rorists- may try to hijack or "was actively engaged in ef-
gave were correct. They iden- have been ordered on the Bel-
bomb a plane in the next forts to begin a dialogue be-
tified themselves as Jordan- gian-Dutch border.
few weeks.
tween Sudan and Israel
ians.
An international manhunt
warning was issued by through the United States."
Since there are four brief- is under way for an Iraqi cit- the The
Federal Aviation Admin-
Eagleton, who was Sen.
cases and only three sus- izen and one or more co-con-
pects, police say another spirators charged by the FBI istration in the form of an George McGovern's original
man may be involved but and the U.S. attorney gener- alert. It •cited information running mate in the 1972
they have no indications as al's office with rigging bombs from what is termed a reli- presidential election cam-
able source that the plot paign, made that remark in
yet to his identity.
in three cars in New York
In another incident at the planned to detonate at noon would take place somewhere the course of an address at
airport, an Ethiopian airliner March 4 when Israeli Pre- in Europe and would be car- the leadership dinner of the
with 29 persons aboard was mier Golda Meir arrived in ried out by terrorists dis- •Combined Jewish Philanthro-
guised as priests or dressed pies of Greater Boston last
forced to turn back after an the city.
as women.
week.
anonymous telephone caller
A federal warrant was is-
Eagleton said he did not
said five bombs were aboard sued for Khalid Dahham al- The alert stressed, how-
it. A search revealed nothing Jawari, 27. who reportedly ever, that despite the reliable believe "that the attack on
source for the informotion it our diplomats in the Sudan
abnormal.
left the U.S. after helping to
was simply a question of
Meanwhile, in Rome, police plant explosive devices in was unconfirmed.
Israeli authorities have their taking advantage of an
have . arrested a second Ital- three separate cars parked
ian citizen in connection with near the El Al airlines freight been alerted to a possible opportunity. It was a well-
the bomb destruction of much terminal at Kennedy Airport. terrorist attempt to hijack an p•anned attack and it was
of an oil transhipment center in front of the Israel Discount El Al plane and land it in designed to interfere with a
Libya in reprisal for the
at Trieste last August.
Bank and near the First Is- shooting down of a Libyan dialogue that might eventual-
ly lead to peace negotiations
The man is a 33-year-old rael Bank and Trust Co.
airliner by Israeli fighters in the Middle East," he said.
art restorer, Pierluigi Man-
The finding of explosives
(Under the heading "The
etti. He has no police record in cars at the first two sites over Sinai last month.
Warnings of the terrorist Ironies of Khartoum," News-
and his only known connec- was reported earlier. The dis-
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tion with the case, according closure • of the third bomb- plot have reached Israel from week states in this week's the Americas, on American Airlines from Detroit Metropoftitan.Air-
issue:
several
sources
of
informa-
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Foreign Ministry Says
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Black September member
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John F. Malone, assistant
JERUSALEM
(JTA)
—
A
prevented
the
massacre
of
recently arrested in Paris in director of the New York of-
• frorn Dec. 16 to January 15, add $90.00
• add $70.00 per person for M.A.P.
foreign
ministry
official
said
three
diplomats
in
Khartoum
the course of a murder in- fice of the FBI, said the car
to E. P. rates for Holiday Supplement
that
Simha
Glitzer,
the
Is-
vestigation.
near the El Al terminal had raeli leather merchant mur- by Arab terrorists. The guer-
Manetti was arrested on the Black September literature. dered in Cyprus by a Jordan- rilla bases in Lebanon were
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The other Italian arrested however, that when police ex-
government depart- would move against Israel's
in connection with the case is perts detonated one of the other
ment.
envoys. Their ccanmandos,
Ludovico Codella, whose born bs the explosion pro-
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