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Show Utahn At Nicosia, TalksTo Hostages Continued from First Page stewardesses during the week captivity. bands will be flown out very he said. soon, Bush examined them at Ihe The TWa flights had originated in Israel and many of the passengers were American Jews who had toured the Land. Holy The former Utahn said his conversations with the victims indicated as many as 40 relatives from the TWA flights may still be in the hands of the guerrillas. (Wire service rpports today indicated some 50 passengers are still being held by the terrorists, including Swiss, German, British, American and Israeli nationals.) Arab guerrilla tries to clear road of newsmen so bus load of hijack plane passengers can get to hotel Jordan. Amman, STEWARDESSES in g CHRONOLOGY Mostly they were tired and glad to get some solid food. Although they had been fed regularly during the week, the fare was mostly liquids, fruits and an unfamiliar kind of Arab bread, Bush said. A Long, Tense Week Editor's Note: Throo stewardess were aboard the TWA 75 mucked on I flight from Tel Aviv to Sept, New York via West Germany They are Vicki Settle McCarthy, McVey and Rcsemarie Metzner. All live in the New York area. In the following article they describe their week on a desert airstrip. t NICOSIA, CYPRUS (AP) -It was Sunday. One hour out of Frankfurt, a man waving a gun and a bomb, and a woman with a bomb, hijacked the plane. There were no threats to the passengers. The woman announced over the intercom, "You are going to a friendly country and will be received by friendly people. When the plane landed in Jordan at the Guerrillas desert airstrip in the early evening, there was a joyous welcome given by the hijackers compatriots. "Stay in your seats, they ordered. Then the hijackers left the plane. The guerrillas who boarded the plane took our passports and gave us landing cards to fill out. There was much tension, apprehension and uncertainty, thats for sure. But the guerrillas told us to be calm. V MONDAY , We received the first hot meal this night. We had chickens and beans. Breakfast was cheese, bread and English biscuits. During the whole time we tvere given two or three meals a day and the food was sufficient. There was also enough water, which was supplied to us in jerry cans. Our captors gave us a small burner to boil water. We were still passing food to the passengers and did so until Wednesday, when we to serve them organized That night the themselves. guerrillas took 40 woman and children off the plane and took them to Amman. A Red Cross official was permitted aboard for the first time. He came each day until Thursday. TUESDAY We were allowed to leave the plane for the first time and stretch our legs. Meanwhile, the guerrilla? searched our hand luggage. They asked many questions of passengers who were found to have dual citizenship (Israel - American). Tne guerrillas pressed about connections with the Israeli military or anything to do w.ih Israel at all. They were quite obsessed with this. We were outside the plane for about 1 hours. It was uncomfortably hot ir the af-temoon hours when the temperature really soared outside, but it never got really stifling inside. At midnight the guerrillas took out six men and we never saw them again. WEDNESDAY The excitement of the day of the was the landing hijacked British airplane at the airstrip. We were told that the same hijacker who took our plane also hijacked that one. At about the same time rumors spread that there had been a few passengers aboard the hijacaed jumbo jet when it was blown up in Cairo. This didnt make things more pleasant for us. There was a problem aboard with a number of the religious Jewish passengers who were insisting on kosher meals. We organized toilet, garbage and water details among the passengers. We were allowed outside the plane in the late afternoon. THURSDAY We broke out the lifeboats and cut up the ropes to give to the kids. They jumped rope under the plane. We had our first and only meal outside on this day. A passenger, Patri- cia Ridenhour of Charlotte, N.C., had hpr 28th birthday and we celebrated it with a candle, Rhine wine and a birthday card written on the back oi a menu. She received an extra bottle of water for the occasion. wished us good luck and said be was sorry for the inconvenience. We were taken to Amman where we were finally able to have a bath for the Lrt time m a week. The guerrillas started opening the baggage in the belly of the plane Each passenger had .0 go down during the search. Anything made in with Israel or connected Israel was taken away. FRIDAY Before dawn the guerrillas took off 10 men and older boys. A sandstorm which lasted several hours began in the morning and so we didnt go out. Much fine sand filtered into the plane,' adding to the discomfort. All hand luggage was checked again by the guerrillas. After dinner, the guerrillas told all the men to get off. This was done quickly. There was no panic among the women. SUNDAY We were flown out to Cyprus and freedom aboard a Red Cross plane. The mei. were to an unknown During the entire were five or six has refused to consider bargaining with the guerrillas. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the group which staged the hijackings and blew up throe planes valued at more d than $25 million, was holding 38 Americans, three Germans, six Swiss, nine Britons and possibly one Indian. But there were discrepancies in the figures. ' Two soldiers American were also thought held cap left-win- g beil-ieve- Twelve bunctious. BUY 4th The passengers in Nicosia enplaned this morning for the United States where the children will be reunited with their parents and the adults with families and friends. Bush said today that prepaare under way at Nicosia in the event the hostages stiii being held are released and brought to Cyprus. One hostage, an American Vietnam veteran, is reportedly in ill health. rations -C- W. GENEVA (AP) It turned out that the number of persons held captive on planes in the Jordanian desert was exactly the samp at the end as at the beginning A Red Cross report that a baby had beer born aboard one o' the planes last week was found to be erroneous, the organization reported Swfr day n.ght. Maicelle Aville, Red Crocs president, had sent congratulations to the unidentified mother, supposedly an Ameri- can. , , S , Tne Red Cross gave no explanation of how the report originated. JG LOSED SUNDA- MOVE OVER, LITTLE CARS! , The New 1971 PLYMOUTH DUSTER and VALIANT are coming through! Y- See 'em all tomorrow, at COTTAGE children at 7h A Baby That Wasn't Some of our people took close by where they could run around as much as they pleased, he said. They wrere in especially high spirits and up to the Ufual childrens pranks." BENNETT'S PAINT at KETCHUM'S So. A5 197C the kids to a park CHEESE traveling unaccompanied on the TWA flights were under the care of 29c ist Teur Neighborhood HERER VALLEY A half block below South Temple on 2nd East MILK DEPOTS 328-493- 1 19 LOCATIONS- - '! I ; , i ' 'i ) .. V ill. -- v destination. Heres one safe way to lick the inflation problem: time, there commandos were guarding us. They stayed mostly in the first c'ass section and here passengers were questioned and food was distributed. The guerrillas urged the people to keep calm throughout the whole time. We had organized a talent show for this evening but it was called off when the men were taken away. Late in the evening we were told we would be taken off next day. SATURDAY The guards read out our names, then asked us to sign out. The male hijacker, whom we hadnt seen since the hijacking, game aboard and i ,.yt 'V taken away who 1 thu.-.ias- NEt.S, Mondoy, September 14, i . a ,5 I 1 38 Americans Held By Arab Guerrillas Continued from First Page Bush r lid the hostages were in and had good health been treated by guerrilla doctors daily during the week-lontravail. They apparently received excellent attention, he added. airport and said they exat pressed their cn being released by racing around and being very ram- DESERET A, "4 J tive. The guerrillas today released S. Sgt. Irvine Graham o Amrse, Ga., a U.S. Embassy guard in Amman, who was captured nine days ago durirg Jordan's near civil war. There have been reports the holding five guerrillas Israeli women soldiers, and Amman reports said some cf those held might be Israeli Phantom returning pilots from training in the United States. PABC0 INTERIOR VELVET ENAMEL each year for the next two years. 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