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Show 1 news from UPI Beirut-Two Palestinian guerrillas hijacked a Luthansa airliner with 17 persons aboard Sunday, tricked West German authorities into releasing three Arabs charged in the murders of 11 Israeli Olympic team members, mem-bers, and then escaped to Libya where Tripoli radio hailed them as heroes. The pirates, claiming to be members of the Black September guerrilla group allegedly responsible for the Munich massacre, seized the Boeing W over Turkey on a flight between Damascus to Frnankfurt Sunday morning and ordered it to Belgrade. Saigon-Communist forces held at least seven hamlets near Saigon Sunday in a stepped-up campaign to show country-side strength Wore a Vietnam cease-fire, military and field reports said. One ot trie plages was only seven miles from the South Vietnamese cpapital, tne closest Communist penetration to Saigon since the 1968 Tet offensives The Communists claimed to have shot down two U.S. warplanes in raids Saturday and one on Sunday. , w . r Though sporadic and wide-spread, the overall number of Viet Long and North Vietnamese attacks throughout South Vietnam Saturday and early Sunday was the highest since 1968. Spokesmen reported w wiling, terror and gun attacks. National Washington-An auto caravan of about 3,000 American Indians from aossthe country arrives in Washington Monday to set up "symbohc tePees on the banks of the Potomac River and lobby for Indian rights. J "6 "Trail of Broken Treaties" caravan started out in Los Angeles, San . rancisco and Seattle on Oct. 2 and stopped at Indian reservations along 2 wav- A spokesman for the group said more than 50 tribes will be presented. |