airfield, already occupied by two other big planes, twa and a swiss airline. now there are 298 people held hostage on a bleak, hot, dusty airstrip out in the desert, and they are surrounded by arabs who say they will kill them all if there s any attempt at rescue. the popular front for the liberation of palestine, the plfp, proudly claimed credit for the coordinated actions. the arabs, not just palestinians, look at israel as an occupying force. it s occupying arab land. and they don t believe that israel should be there. that s the basis of the conflict. there is a group from pflp on every plane to explain our problem, the palestinian problem, and to justify the way we are doing things to convince the whole world. to the palestinians, they thought they had no choice but turn to violence because no one s listening to them. the american girl here, can she tell us how the passengers are? we re very crowded. and i think the women and especially the children are very restless
two other big planes, twa and a swiss airline. now there are 298 people held hostage on a bleak, hot, dusty airstrip out in the desert, and they are surrounded by arabs who say they will kill them all if there s any attempt at rescue. the popular front for the liberation of palestine, the pflp, proudly claimed credit for the coordinated action. the arabs, not just palestinians, look at israel as an occupying force. it s occupying arab land. and they don t believe that israel should be there. that s the basis of the conflict. there is a group from pflp on every plane to explain our problem, the palestinian problem, and to justify the way we are doing things to convince the world. to the palestinians, they thought they had no choice but turn to violence because no one s listening to them. the american girl here, can
one of the reasons for the rise of contemporary international terrorism was the development of modern jet air transportation. these were nationally labeled containers of potential hostages at 35,000 feet. good evening. the middle east conflict boiled over today with four airplane hijackings, including one that was aborted at london s heathrow airport. today palestinian commandos took over a british airliner, the fourth successful hijacking in as many days. the jetliner was forced to land at the jordanian desert airfield, already occupied by two other big planes, twa and a swiss airline. now there are 298 people held hostage on a bleak, hot, dusty airstrip out in the desert, and they are surrounded by arabs who say they will kill them all if there s any attempt at rescue.
development of modern jet air transportation. these were nationally labeled containers of potential hostages at 35,000 feet. good evening. the middle east conflict boiled over today with four airplane hijackings, including one that was aborted at london s heathrow airport. today palestinian commandos took over a british airliner, the fourth successful hijacking in as many days. the jetliner was forced to land at the jordanian desert airfield, already occupied by two other big planes, twa and a swiss airline. now there are 298 people held hostage on a bleak, hot, dusty airstrip out in the desert, and they are surrounded by arabs who say they will kill them all if there s any attempt at rescue. the popular front for the liberation of palestine, the plfp, proudly claimed credit for
happening in china. the same was happening in london at the end of last week. how do things look so far today? bleak, absolutely brutal. if we can bring up the european markets. they have been open for eight minutes or so. a sea of red. traders are getting up to go to work, don t bother. stay at home. the ftse down 3%. the cac down 3%. this is a brutal opening for europe and the numbers we have been opening, the ftse erased a lot of the gains for the year. the xetra dax has seen all of its gains disappear. this has been going on over weeks now. we saw the numbers last week from china, shanghai, they were down. but this is getting worse and worse and investors here really trying to take some cover from