European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine in the name of political causes the associated press schoolchildren in the diplomats in athletes in West Ger americans in hostages to captives taken in the name of a political human beings turned into victims because they were in the wrong place at the wrong the americans who have been prisoners since iranians took Over the embassy in Tehran last 4 have been held far longer than any other group of they also Are different from other hostages be cause their Captivity has been sanctioned by a gov for a government to applaud mob violence and Ter for a government actually to support and in effect participate in the taking and holding of is unprecedented in human said president less than a month after the embassy until this the longest siege was in 1977 in the it involved a group of South seeking Independence for their a part of indo Nesia that was formerly a dutch one band of terrorist moluccas seized a commuter train another took Over a school about 12 Miles the hostages at school included More than 100 Chil the children were freed on May 27 after four Days of Captivity when they were stricken with a stomach four adults at the school and 51 on the train were held until june when dutch commandos struck in twin six terrorists and two hostages the world reacted with horror and condemnation to the iranian but the horror and condemnation did not bring Freedom for the nor did it prevent further further on 27 a Little less than three months after the iranians stormed the embassy guerrillas invaded a diplomatic reception at the embassy of the dominican Republic in the guerrillas said they were members of a group called which took its name from the colombian presidential elections of april election which m19 claims were the guerrillas took 57 including ambassador Diego they demanded a Ransom of million and publication of their manifesto neither of which they As the Days wore the guerrillas released 38 of the a 39th the ambassador from 61 Days after the occupation the guerrillas left the embassy and flew to four of the remaining 16 prisoners were freed just before the guerrillas left the rest Asencio among them were flown to then less than a week there was another group of six iranian arabs seized the iranian embassy in taking 26 the gunmen said they wanted Freedom for 91 Ara iranians jailed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini government and a flight to the Days wore five hostages were re venezuelan ambassador while captive of terrorists in last the end of the siege came six Days after it the terrorists had abandoned their demand for the release of the prisoners in Iran and British police were hopeful that they could talk the gunmen into giving shortly before 1 on the sixth Day of the shots were heard inside the the gunmen announced they had shot one of the hostages and would kill another one every half hour until their demands were More shots were the body of a dead hostage was shoved out the front door of the eight members of the elite special air service stormed the the 19 hostages remaining alive were All but one of the terrorists were the successful raid recalled other most notably by West German and israeli the West germans formed a special unit to Deal with terrorists after the 1972 olympics in when eight palestinians sneaked into the sleeping quarters of the israeli two athletes were killed and nine were taken the palestinians wanted Freedom for comrades jailed in Israel and a flight to the Middle German officials took the gunmen and their via to a military sharpshooters envoy to Diego in Florida after being freed by january 1981 waited to pick off the but they hit Only two of one of the six other terrorists tossed a grenade into the helicopter where the israelis bound and All nine of the hostages died before the remaining terrorists were the commando unit that was formed As a result of the Munich disaster went into action at Soma in october four Arab terrorists had hijacked a Lufthansa plane in route from Mallorca to Frankfurt with More than 80 people the attack was staged in conjunction with the earlier kidnapping of a West German Industry the hijackers and the kidnappers wanted Freedom for a dozen terrorists in West German the plane flew to Abu Dha Aden and four Days after it was to along the the chief Pilot had been less than 24 hours after the plane reached Togadi the commandos went into they stormed the killed three of the hijackers and freed the 86 the industrialist was found dead the next Day in an israeli commando team rescued hostages in Africa More than a year earlier at on june four terrorists two palestinians and two West germans commandeered an air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris when it stopped at Athens to the plane was refuelled in then flown to Entebbe where the terrorists demanding the release of 53 prisoners from jails in five countries brought in re the hijackers freed 148 but continued to hold 94 jewish passengers and 12 air France Crew Mem on july the israeli commandos burst into the terminal building where the captives were less than an hour the hostages were on their Way one seven terrorists and 20 ugandan sol Diers were a Rescue Effort by egyptian commandos was less Suc the commandos were trying to free hostages taken during an afr asian conference in by in february the terrorists had traded some of their hostages for Safe conduct to Warnaca Airport and took off in a Cyprus airways plane with a Volunteer Crew of four and 11 the terrorists were turned away from several countries in their quest for a Safe Haven and the plane finally returned to egyptian commandos stormed the but cypriot troops opened fire on killing More than a the terrorists had surrendered to the planes Crew and had freed the most of the hostages who have been taken were seized but terrorists also have struck in the United Early in a dozen Hanafi moslem terrorists involved in a feud with a rival Black muslims group took 134 hostages at three separate Sites in the hostages were held for 38 hours before the gun men one person was killed and four were wounded during the the stars and stripes Page 13