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Diana
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ladelphia in the fall of 1959 she
was a tall, bony girl with short
blonde hair and long aristocra
tic hands. A Midwestern
Republican, she was against
Social Security, federal banking
regulations and everything else
which smacked of “liberalism”
or “big” government. In 1960,
she supported Richard M.
Nixon against John F. Kennedy.
She ardently defended her
father’s ownership of tenant
farms in Lickskillet, Ala., since
sold, arguing that he treated
his tenants well and fairly.
During her first year, Diana
was known as a light-hearted
girl, always clowning around,
and the kind of person you
came to if you wanted to be
cheered up. She was never
scholarly and studied reluctant
ly, but still managed to get A’s
and B’s. At examination time,
she would entertain with caviar
and sour cream and then
memorize her notes on the way
to the test. To force herself to
get up in the morning, she
sometimes wrapped three
alarm clocks in newspaper and
placed them across the room
beneath a sign that read, “Get
4), you bitch!”
If there was a Princeton or
Yale weekend, Diana was
always on the bus, sometimes
having arranged dates with two
different boys.
“It wasn't that she was
particularly beautiful,” said one
man who knew her. “She had a
round face, and a funny nose
but she was so sharp and kind
of glowing that everyone fell
half in love with her.”
Family was Proud of Her
Back home in Dwight, she
was the pride of the family.
James Oughton pointed to
Diana as an example for her
sisters and took keen pleasure
in her quick mind and her
ability to grasp and understand
ideas long after others were
still absorbing them.
In 1961, when she was 19,
Diana went off to Germany to
spend her junior year at the
University of Munich. Living
with a German family, she
immersed herself in the culture
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and picked up the language
quickly. She spent time leam
ing different dialects so she
could talk to any German she
might meet, whether a Bava
rian beer garden owner or a
Swiss-German businessman.
Diana made dose friendships
with German students and
would sometimes remain late
into the night at student cases,
discussing over cigarettes and
coffee the social problems in
the United States which she
later was to feel could be
solved only by violence.
Her letters to her parents
were filled with accounts of
people she met and their
conversations. She talked of the
crush she had on a Romanian
refugee, “my new unreachable
— wonderfully conscientious,
melancholy and romantic.”
She described how happy she
felt when strangers were warm
and kind, how she had taken
candy to a German woman who
had picked up some books
which dropped from her bi
cycle.
She spoke of conversations
with a German boy, Peter: “He
said something which made
sense. He said the trouble with
America was it had lost its
pioneer spirit ... it put women
in the wrong place and they
were becoming neuter. Hurrah
for socialism!”
Develops Consciousness
While in Germany, the 19-
year-old Diana began to develop
a new consciousness of her
country, its people and its
problems. When she met some
relatives in Rome toward the
end of her stay, she suddenly
saw them in a different light
although she had known them
since childhood.
“I just sat wide-eyed and
listened,” she said in a letter to
her parents in the spring of
1962, a few months after her
twentieth birthday. “I didn’t
known people like that existed.
She (the relative) doesn’t like
anyone who hasn’t a proper
pedigree ... talking about poor
me surrounded by all these
German peasants, that Nurem
berg was the center of world
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Yaron Raab of Trenton, N. J. poses
with automatic rifle-holding Arab
guerrilla as passengers were freed
from hijacked jetliners. (UPI).
Palestinians hold 50 hostages
Threaten unimaginable reprisals
By United Press International
Palestinian guerrillas holding
some 50 hostages in Amman
have threatened “unimaginable
reprisals” if Israel continues its
communism. I was amazed.”
Politics were still incidental
to Diana’s life, however. She
had not yet started the slow
process of radicalization which
was to make her a revolutiona
ry. She was still a fun-loving
college girl, gay and cocky. She
began her letters to her family
with “Mes Chers Parents” and
closed them “muchest love,
Me.” She refused to wear
glasses out of admitted vanity
and had trouble spotting people
more than a few yards away.
She was casual and scatter
brained and once made a
special trip to Wurttemberg
only to blurt out when she got
there, “My God, I’ve seen this
castle before.”
Diana’s senior year at Bryn
Mawr in 1962-63 was a year of
change for young people
throughout the country. John F.
Kennedy’s promise in 1960 to
“get the country moving again”
had ended once and for all the
silence of the fifties. Young
people began to think about
America and found it fell short
of what they had always been
taught to believe it was. They
went on freedom rides in the
South, joined voter registration
projects and picketed stores
which discriminated against
Negroes. Students of fashiona
ble schools like Bryn Mawr
talked about social justice and
racial prejudice and turned
away from deb parties and
champagne in the back of a
fast car.
During the same period, a
kind of genteel bohemianism
was becoming fashionable in
the colleges. Diana was among
the small advanced class of
students, inspired by the
beatniks of the 19505, who grew
their hair long and traded their
shirtwaists and circle pins for
sandals and suede jackets.
A book which made a deep
impression on thousands of
white students was John
Howard Griffin’s “Black Like
Me,” an account of a trip the
author made through the Deep
South disguised as a Negro.
Diana was strongly affected by
it and joined a project in
Philadelphia to tutor black
ghetto children.
Tutors Three Children
Although tutors were sup-
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mass arrests of Arabs in
occupied territories.
Over the weekend Israel
arrested 450 Arabs in the Gaza
Strip and the west bank of the
Jordan River. Indications were
the Israelis were using the
arrests to exert pressure on the
guerrillas to release the re
maining hostages held from
three jetliners hijacked last
week, then blown up Saturday
after the passengers were
removed.
The guerrilla organization
that carried out the hijackings,
posed to be limited to one child
each, Diana soon had three. She
took a train from Bryn Mawr
into the city two days a week
and spent more and more time
with the children she was
helping. There are few Negroes
in Dwight; there was only one
in her class at Bryn Mawr.
Inevitably, the Philadelphia
ghettoes began to show Diana
that the prosperous tranquility
of Dwight was not the rule in
America.
On one occasion, she told her
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Wreckage of three hijacked jets after they were blown up. (UPI)
the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),
said in a statement late Sunday
“Israel’s barbaric wave of
arrests will simply strengthen
our insistence on the demands
set for the release of hostages.”
It added, “If Nazi Israel’s
campaign of terror’ continued,
the PFLP would retaliate with
“unimaginable reprisals.” It
did not elaborate.
Just how many of these
aboard three hijacked airliners
were still in the hands of the
guerrillas was in doubt. A
sister Carol how amazed she
was that seventh-grade children
could not read.
Like thousands of other
students touched by the new
mood in the country, Diana
often spent long evenings
discussing what was wrong and
how to make it right. She began
going out with what one frind
called “sad-souled men” and
showed less interest in the
Princeton football players who
still came to see her. She
spokesman for the PFLP said
today they were holding 49 of
the passengers, including some
of them “suspected to be
Phantom (Is-aeli jet) pilots.”
Lists compiled by the three
airlines involved, TWA, Swis
sair and BOAC, put the number
unaccounted for at 57.
Red Cross Withdraws
The International Red Cross,
which sent a three-man team to
negotiate with the PFLP,
withdrew Sunday night.
Red Cross President Marcel
Naville said the governments,
shunned college mixers and
proms and listened to Joan
Baez albums by the hour.
At graduation, she was
listless about commencement
activities and more embar
rassed than pleased by the
elaborate party given by her
parents in a Philadelphia hotel.
The message beneath Diana’s
picture in her college yearbook
read: “The milkmaid from
Dwight who’s always on a diet
... traveler far and wide but
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involved, the United States,
West Germany, Britain and
Israel, will maintain a common
stance in future negotiations.
However, after meeting with
representatives of the four
countries in Berne, Switzerland,
he said “the governments have
agreed on further steps which
we propose.”
He said “it is too delicate a
problem to provide more
information on these steps,”
and did not say what role the
Red Cross might assume.
The Vatican also might help
never knows where she’s been
... loves Bryn Mawr but has
never spent a weekend here.”
Those who knew her best saw
qualities emerge in Diana
during those four years which
were not described in the
yearbook. Beneath the frothy
exterior, there was an increa
singly serious, somewhat trou
bled young woman who was
gradually growing away from
the protected and privileged
world of her childhood.
Monday, Sept. 14,1970
7
in the mediations. Pope Paul VI
has given full mediating powers
to his representative, Msgr.
Jean Rodhain, president of the
Vatican relief organization,
Caritas International. Rodhain
is in Amman.
Israel, although indirectly
represented by the Red Cross
negotiating team, has said it
would not have direct dealings
with the guerrillas. It also has
taken a hard line, warning
Palestinian Arab leaders in
Jordan it will take stern
measures against guerrilla pri
soners unless the hostages are
freed.
A squabble among the
guerrilla organizations also
appeared to complicate the
situation. The PFLP said in a
statement today it would
disregard earlier guarantees for
the hostages’ safe release
unless it was reinstated into the
guerrilla movement. The PFLP
was expelled from the central
guerrilla organization, the
Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion (PLO).