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AMMAN, Jordan — Jordanian Army tank stands guard in
front of hijacked Trans World Airlines 707 (left) and Swissair
DC-8 on a desert airstrip near Amman early today. Pales-
Britain holds out on guerrilla demands
By United Press International
Britain held out alone today against Arab guerrilla
demands it free imprisoned Palestinian commandos in
return for release of two hijacked jetliners and more than
200 passengers in them. West Germany and Switzerland
said they would comply with the guerrilla ultimatum.
British Prime Minister Edward Heath called his second
cabinet meeting in 24 hours today to consider what to do.
The West German and Swiss governments announced
Monday they would comply with demands of the
guerrillas who threatened to blow up the Trans World
Airlines (TWA) 707 and the Swissair DCB and the 200
occupants of the planes.
The big jets were parked at a little-used military air
field in the desert 26 miles north of
Amman. They were surrounded by tanks, heavy artillery
and Arab guerrillas with machine guns.
Planes Loaded with Explosives
Thd*guerrillas said both planes had been loaded with
explosives wired for quick detonation in the event any
Georgia girl among hijacked
MACON, Ga. (UPI)-Wow!
Will 13-year-old Jayne Mcßride
ever have a story to tell her
friends when she gets home.
An air trip to Germany and
back with side trips to Paris
would have been enough but a
hijacking to Jordan...?
The parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Mcßride, heard part of
the story Sunday from the State
Department. They were told
that their ninth-grade daughter,
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one of 300 passengers on two
planes hijacked to the Middle
East Sunday by Arab terrorists,
had been released and was safe.
“We are thrilled, delighted...
everythinggood,’’Mcßride said.
The farmer and merchant
who serves on the Lee County
board of commissioners said
the State Department called
him about 9 p.m. with the news
that his daughter was among
the women and children re-
attempt was made to approach them.
The Palestinian guerrillas late Monday released 116
women and children from the planes and took them to an
Amman hotel for the night. But 60 women and children
were turned back to the TWA plane after identifying
themselves as Jews. *
The two airliners were among four seized by Arab
guerrillas Sunday over Western Europe. One, a Pan
American World Airways 747, was blown up on the ground
in Cairo after 171 passengers were cleared from the plane.
An Israeli El Al jet arrived in London after a guard
thwarted an attempt to hijack the plane in a gunbattle that
killed one guerrilla.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP) gave the governments involved until 10 p.m. EDT
Wednesday to comply.
Red Cross Helps
In Geneva, the internatonal committee for the Red
Cross said it had sent a special delegation to Amman to
help local Red Crescent officials negotiate an exchange.
leased from the hijackers’ cus
tody.
“Her mother is feeling better
but she’s still upset and wants
Jayne back home,” Mcßride
added.
Mcßride said Jayne was visit
ing a sister who worked for the
U. S. government in Ramstein,
Germany and was en route
home after a 29-day visit.
‘‘This was her first time
abroad,” Mcßride said. “She
tianian guerrillas released 116 persons aboard the two hi
jacked airliners yesterday but held 210 others inside the
planes. The guerrillas said they would blow up the planes
had visited Holland, Paris, Ber
lin and Austria.”
Mcßride learned that his
daughter was aboard the Trans
World Airlines plane when he
went to the airport to meet her.
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By Jack Crowley
Desk: a wastebasket with
drawers.
Husband peering into coffee
cup: “There are enough
grounds here for a divorce.”
Love makes a man think almost
as much of a girl as he thinks of
himself.
There are two kinds of
cleverness: thinking of a bright
remark in time to say it; and
thinking of it in time NOT to say
it
Expert: an ordinary man away
from home.
Speaking of expertise, at Jack &
Lens we sure know motors.
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with their passengers unless seven guerrillas imprisoned in
West Germany, Switzerland and Britain were freed before 10
p.m. Wednesday (UPI)
The guerrillas demanded release of:
—Leila Khaled, 23, a Palestinian guerrilla who helped
hijack a TWA jet to Damascus on Aug. 29, 1969. She was
subdued by passengers in a foiled attempted seizure of an
El Al jet to London Sunday.
—Mohammed Haidid, 28; Abdel Rahman Saleh, 21, and
Mohammed El Hafi, 24, held in West German jails
awa’iting trial for a Feb. 10 grenade attack on an El Al
Airline bus at Munich Airport.
—Abu el Heiga, 24; Ibrahim Twawfik Yousek, 34, and
Amena Dahbor, 22, jailed in an attack against an El Al jet
at Kloten Airport in Zurich Feb. 18, 1969.
Jimmy Carter
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Governor to be honest and
unselfish? Is it too much to insist that
he speak for a// the people, not just
big business and special interests?
Should a Governor seek advantages
for large corporations while he
raises our taxes?
No, never again, say hundreds of
thousands of Georgians who are
voting for Jimmy Carter September 9.
Jimmy Carter would rather be right
than rich. He puts honesty and
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around. Our next four years can
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Jimmy Carter as Governor.
X “Jimmy
Carter
Our kind of man, our kind of Governor.
Griffin Daily News
QUAKE WRECKS HOMES
NEW DELHI (UPI) - An
earthquake wrecked 30 homes
Sunday night in the Gujarat
state city of Broach, already
heavily damaged from floods
that covered part of its
business district, the Press
Trust of India said today.
Thirty-seven persons died in
another quake in March in
Broach.
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