Palestinian guerrillas grab © busload of Israeli sightseers MARCUS. ELIASON AVCV (AP} — It was 4 p.m.’ Saturday afternoon, ‘and 63 Israeli sightseers boarded their bas in high ‘spirits after spending the ‘Sabbath touringa # a stalemite eave, | In Tel Aviv, Bus No. 901 revved up, took on 20 passengera and headed north ‘or Haifa. Sixty kilometres to the north, two rubber dinghies emerged from the choppy Mediterranean and were beached on the rugged _Tsraeli ‘coast. Eleven Pale- minlan guerrillas—nine men anid two women—jumped out and unloaded guns, ex- ‘plofives ud ammkknition 4 few hundred metres from the: Tel Aviv-Haifa coastal ex- pressway.. The terrorists hed in- tended to sail farther south, forced them the little fishing village of Michaels. _ Gail Rubens phidlographer jo emigrated from New York City five years ago, came _ upon them. The terrorists shot and killed her without attracting: any attention, then -hiked to the highway through a nature preserve. They thumbed down'a taxi and killed ite passengers. ¢ "I thought they were an arnly patrol, because they khaki fatigues,” sald the cab- driver, Shlamo Cohen. SWAM FOR LIFE Cohen, 47, said he escaped by diving into a fishpond and swimming for his life. Betind him, he heard the rattle of gunfire. The shots were directed at Bus 901, which had reached Mangan Michaels, “The terrorists jumped on the bus shouting, ‘Palestine! “Arafatt'* said Rina Nini, 45, one of the passengers. “They pointed a gun at the driver's head and told him to go to Te] Aviv.” The bus made a U-turn while the hijackers shouted at the passengers to keep calm. Some of the Israelis had been wounded in the initial burst of gunfire, and the rest were too scared to read the leaflets the at- tackers handed out. _ “It was something about coming to liberate Palestine fram the Ziontsta," Mra. Nint Meanwhile, the tourist bus returning from the ftalagmite cave had reached the town of Givat Olga, 50 kilometres north of Td Aviv, Pherae driver ae Bus 902 stopped and people milling around it, he slowed down and caught a blast of bullets from the terrorists: MOTHER SHOT “7 lookednow, the window” and: saw some’ people shooting at us,” said -year- oldnRonnie Boshkevitz. “My mother slumped in her seat, bleeding. We started jum- ping out “My father dragged my mother out the door.ol Wan shouting and running across sand dunes. Bullets whistled past me. I fell again and closed my eyes.nThey must have thought I was dead because the shooting stop- Guerrilla raid called courageous By THE ASSOCIATED PRESE Both moderate and hard- line Arab coountries hailed the Palestinian guerrills raid into Israel, with Saudi Arabia calling it a “courageous operation” de- monstrating the weakness’ ‘of Israeli security. Western governments con- demned Saturday’s raid and Soviet Jews in Moscow staged a brief demonstration Sunday to denounce it. Yasser Arafat's Palestine ‘Liberation . Organization (PLO) said in Beirut its Al Fatah branch carried out the raid, in which. at least. 32 Israelis and nine of 11 terrorists were killed. The PLO called it ‘our answer to Israeli arrogance.” Z Egypt's foreign minister, Butros Ghali, said the attack “proves that security in tarael will not be attained ‘through settlements or the addition of new lands.'” ¥He added that “There can . determination’ for the Palestinians. Ghali under- lined two key Egyptian de- mands in peace negotiations with Israel. But he said that despite the: attack “let us bope the peace process will continue.” ; - Peace overture to Israel. ATTACK CONDEMNED US. President Carter, in a statement Saturday in Washington, called the at- tack “‘an outrageaus act of lawlessness and senseless brutality." U.S. rder ‘es Lar It is “mi ‘Cantot be t é, justifi ae Other Western | con- demnatlons came from the British, French and West German governments. Saudi. Arabla said the Talders in their ‘courageous operation” showed Israel _ that “security: is impossible . a-Jong as Palestinians are :- without a homeland.”’ _ The Syrian newspaper AL Baath, organ of the ruling: Baath Socialist party, said the attack wag staged "ta plans," a term the Syrians use to refer.:to Egyptian President. Anwar Sadat's Libya said in a govern- ment radio broadcast: “All doors should be opened to the legal and just Palestinian struggle to enable it to strike hard al the enemy inside occupied Palestine.’” CHOSE VIOLETS Violets were Napoleon Bonaparte’s favorite flower. Sadat would — rather Meir “NEW YORK. (Reuter) — tian:;President Anwar t daid in a television- siunerview broadcast here Sunday night that former’ Israeli premier Golda Meir and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayannmight do more for © Middle East peace than t Premier Menachem begin said ‘former US. state secretary Henry... er had warned him ee aad be “hit by the Pentagon” If he tried to wipe outan Israeli pocket of tanks ° rid troopa in Egypt during thé 1973 war. Sadat was ‘interviewed on . the CBS 60 Minutes program in;connection with the for- theoming publication of his autobiography. Ho said his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was a eeply suspicious man, dures, whose presidency wraps ‘were committed, . including phone tapping, concentration camps and the seizure of propery. . * ‘He had-a respect, “even a kind of affection,” ‘Mrs, Meir, whom he calledn''the old lady.” Asked whether. Mrs. Mer might do.more ‘for peace than Begin, Sadat replied: - “I'm ‘sorry to eay, y -: Begin may be hurt byt this, but yes,” He added that Dayan also might domorefor peace ifhe were premier... - But he. said Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu - assured -him. Begin was “genuine for peace ... and well, he told me, have some patience." we Sadat was asked about his assertion in it wat pod gyptians who were stop; from wiping out a pocket of Israeli tanks and troops and not the accepted view that Israel. might have an- nihilated the Egypttan 3rd Army if there had not been a. censefire in the 1973 war. “7 told Henry (Klesinger) je tean’ tafford to have them in this pocket,” he aaid. ‘Immedeately he told me, ‘I need not ask the Pentagon or the president. You will be hit by the Pentagon because we shall never permit the Russian arms to make victory: again. You' shall be hit by the Pentagon and very severely." °° The: interveewer said Kissinger ‘hadnno comment on Sadal’s version. - . State. etarx Cyrus, Vance eaid ih ped." The terrorests herded the 15 passengers from Bus 901 on to the sightseeing coach, ngiving them a total of 70 hostages. They tied the men to their seats with ropes, “To Tel Aviv!" they told the bus driver. By now the police force were beginning to realize that something serious was happening on the highway. It was just after 5p.m., and the sightseeing . bus was barrelling full speed down the road, machine-gkn fire and grenades spewing from its windows. Hitch-hiker Ezra Bismi saw .@ driver stop in amazement. He was shot in the head.. Maya Sosinsky turned around to ‘see the back seat of her car pocked with bullets and her parents wounded and bleeding. Just before the town of Ne- tanya, with Tel Aviy still 35 Kilometres away, an Israeli police Jeep gave chase. The terrorists smashed the rear window of the bus and warded off their PUrsLers . with gunfire. HIT BY MOTORIST. At. Netanya, a policeman tried ta block the road with * his. car. The bus swerved. ‘past it, and the policeman was hit by a confused motorlst. The police set up a road- “block of Jeeps 15 kilometres “north of Tel Aviv outside a country club. An anti- terrorist commando squad took up positions along the route. n - Prime Minister Menachem Hegin callednin his top. advisers, and together the officials fol- lowed the bus’s progress. A few kilometres ‘before the blockade, two more Jeeps took up the chase. The terrorists threw a grenade that blew up the first Jeep. _ The second Jeep crashed into the wreckage. “They were shooting over. our heads and all over the ‘place,’ said Avraham Shamir, 38, one of the hostages, ‘The bus reached the country club at 5:25 p.m. and Sforsthe ‘barricade. e cqmimaridos shot into the Mires flateeding them and A gun po stopping the bus. battle erupted. . ‘policeman Vector Some of the terrorists es- caped into roadside bushes.n SHOT BY POLICEMAN “T saw one and fired,” said Ben- Shoshan. “He threw a grenade. I lay fiat and it exploded behind me. Whennhe got up to throw an- other one I fhot him." Inside the bus, grenades started to explode. Avraham Shamir said he grabbed a gun from a fallen terrorist and shot two of the gunmen before jumping to safety. He was shot in the eye and shoulder. Then the bus blew up. The air filled with smoke and the smells of burning flesh, upholstery and gasoline. Medics ran to help the wounded. Badly burned victims screamed and writhed on the ground. The bus became a huge ball of fire, and 25 persons were incinerated. . After about 20 minutes the shooting stopped. Nine of the 11 terrorists were dead and two were captured. At first the Israclis, fearing that three had escaped, mounted a_kuge manhunt in the — - northern suburbs of. Tel Aviv and imposed a curfew. - One af! the dead terrorists, & woman, Wore a necklace with the name Dalailah.. It had been 100 minutes since the attackerf landed, and 36 Israelis had died in the worst terrorist attack in Tsrael's history. SNIPPED OFF COLLARS TROY, N.Y. (AP) = Hannah Lord Montague made the first detached collar in 1825 in-Troy, N.Y., after she became tired of washing her husband's shirts just because the collar was dirty. With scissors she snipped off the collar, and the result was a new look in men's wear of the day. CHILDREN NOTICED _WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) An celebration. of children and the family will occur May 1, says Kenneth Phillips, director of development and public information for Save the Children, the 46-year-old internatiuaal child aid ‘agency. Save the Children Day "76 is focused on needs of their families, Moluceans take ASSEN, Netherlands (AP) — Masked and heaviily- armed South Molucean. militants shot their way into ‘a government office building today, wounding at least six persons and taking 30 to 40 ‘others hostage, Dutch. au ‘* thorities said. A justice: ministry. ofticlal: said the gunmen, numbering at least three, were making: “similar demands" to those made in previous South & a-e. freedom for jalled comrades, anda plane to fly them out of the Netherlands, The area aroundnthis northern Dutch city has been as focus of attacks by South demanding Dutch hel in | ‘om Indonesia for their . Asian ' winning : independence homeland, a former Dutem colony. Thousands — of Moluccans are in the Netherlands as immigrants. At least two persons fleeing the modern office building, the Drente roaovin «]) headquarters, were gunned -- down from behind andn- slightly. wounded, It was - reported that others were shot inside. The terrorlats,nsaid to be armed: with pistols and at least “oné machine-gun, -. sprayed the streets outside with gunfire. from upper- floor windows. Police in armored cars ringed: the building. FLED IN PANIC “Many government: em: . Ployees fled the bullding in a .: panic, somesliding down fire hoses lowered from windows © and:then fleeing ‘through the backyard, police said, n ; “The bullets were flying about: our ears,” said Leo Klok, 42, a government clerk who escaped without injury. Police spokesman P. Tv. Schilthuis, : executive.’ But she: escaped | : - Dutch hostages : malin entrance, firing shots. Within minutes at least two ‘armed comrades joined him inside, Sinnema said. Police said they believe the attackers wanted to kidnap provincial ‘: : Com- missioner . Tinneke” ~ "Drente's top through a window of her ground-floor office. - _ Fitness. In soar heart you know it's right Moluecan terror attacks: fa ets G ; vamivot ~ and Fire Protection - Requirements international ° vertystricken children and, “For All Your Burglor PARIS (AP) — Chances of the leftists taking over the French government receded today as the Socialists and Communists laggednbehind the centre-right coalition in incomplete returns from the first round of the National Assembly elections. Official returns from 343 of the 491 votingndistricts gave "46.9 per cent of the popular vote cast Sunday President Valery Giscard d'Estaing’s centristGaullist coalition and 45.6 per cent to the Socialists and Com- munists, Extreme leftists not linked to the main left-wing parties received 3.2 per cent. So far, only 61 of the 491 deputies have been elected on the first ballot. Candidates needed more than 50 per cent of the vote to be elected in the first round, Although a number of leftist districts remained to be counted, the Socialists and Communists were well short ofthe 53 per cent which analysts figure the left needs on the first round to assure a LONDON (AP( A U.S.- West German announcement on measures to halt speculation in the United States. dollar failed to im- press Europe’s currency markets today and the dollar headed down again. The Frankfurt exchange had been optimistic in ad- vance of the announcement | and the dollar had jumped to 2.0812 marks in morning trading, compared with 2.0535 late Friday. But minutes after the joint announcement in Bonn and Washington, the dollar slid downward again and was trading in the afternoon at 2.0525 marks, In Zurich, the dollar ‘weakened sharply to 1.925 Swiss . francs—compared with 1.950 late Friday—aiter the market apparently decided the U.S.-West German moves were not enough to restore. con: fidence. ... . ou The.,Parls,. ‘exchange was influenced: by the weaker- .than-expected showing of the | left in the French elec- tions,nand the france gained | strength against the dollar and other major currencies. The dollar was trading in Paris late in the day at 4,7425 French francs, compared with 4.880 francs late Friday. Tn light after-hours trading - at Milan, the dollar weakened to 864 lire, against Friday's 966.5 lire, One Milan broker said that the long-term trend of. the dollar will remain downward despite the U.S.-West German measures, which include doubling to $4 billion swap arrangements between the two countries, In London, the British. pound' began the day at $1.6672 U.S. and was trading at $1.9065 in the afternoon. | The pound was worth $1.9005 . late Friday. Gold’ meanwhile rose to $187.00 U.S. announce at. London, against Friday’ ry $185.875. The price rose also at Zurich, ; “CONTACT: Glenn Carson or Wally Lefebvre * Uosnoed Private Anvestigator Sinnema sald‘ one of the. #- ‘Moluceans rode up to the building in a tard, pulled out ‘a concealed machine-gun and stormed through . the . (604) 635-3863 majority in the lower house _of parliament. They were also well short of the 54 to 55 per cent predicted for them by major opinion polls for months before the election. DEAL PROPOSED Socialist leader Francois Mitterrand and Communist leader Georges Marchais scheduled a strategy meeting today. Any can- didate getting more than 12% per cent of the volte onnthe firft round can still run next Sunday even if he ‘yan third, and Mitterrand has said the Socialists sre ready to increase the chances of leftist wins in the Funoffnelections next Sun- day by withdrawing can- didates who lagged behind Communists in the first round. But there has been no indication that Marchais would agree to do the same. The Socialists were leading the Communists 23.5 per cent to 19.8 in the first round, and there is a widespread belief that the THE HERALD, Tuesday, March 14, 1978, PAGE 3 _ No leftist takeover in F rance Commknists would prefer to see the left lose rather than play second fiddle to the Socialists in a coalition government. Should the Socialists and Communists renew their al-. liance and win a majority in the assembly, Giscard d'Estaing would be faced by cabinet for the last three years of his presidency. The resulting conflicts between the strong presidency created by Charles de Gaulle in the 1958 constitution and an opposition government, something de Gaulle never envisaged, would return France to the strains and uncertainties of the pre-de Gaulle Fourth Republic. LEADERS IN RUNOFFS Both Mitterrand and Marchais were forced into the runoff voting, but Premier Raymond Barre and Gaullist leader Jacques Chirac, the mayor of Paris, won their seats. Said Barre: “The French. peo ple have not let themselves be taken In by the - “demagogic promises with which the ‘opposition tried to seduce them." 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