CBS Evening News open - 1977-10-19

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:05] This is the CBS Evening News with Walter

[0:08] Kronite.

[0:09] Good evening. Left-wing radicals today

[0:12] reacted with violence to West Germany's

[0:14] daring commando rescue raid on that

[0:16] hijacked jet. The body of West German

[0:19] industrialist Hans Martin Schlier who

[0:21] was kidnapped by terrorists 44 days ago

[0:24] was found in the trunk of a car in

[0:26] France just across the West German

[0:27] border. And there were firebombings of

[0:30] West German consulates and businesses in

[0:32] at least five Italian cities. West

[0:34] German tourist buses in Paris and Nice

[0:37] also were firebombed. No injuries were

[0:39] reported. There also were protest

[0:41] demonstrations, some violent from

[0:43] several West European cities. More on

[0:45] the SL story and the rescue raids

[0:47] aftermath from Rob Bob McNamera in Bon.

[0:51] Late today, French police were directed

[0:52] to a street and a Germanlicicensed car

[0:54] in the town of Maloo. The instructions

[0:57] on where to find the car were sent to a

[0:59] Paris newspaper in the form of a

[1:01] communicate apparently written by a

[1:03] terrorist group claiming to be

[1:05] responsible for the kidnapping of the

[1:06] German industrialist Hans Martin

[1:08] Schlier. It was late tonight after bomb

[1:11] experts first checked the car for

[1:12] explosives that the body of the

[1:14] 62-year-old Schlier was found behind the

[1:17] backseat of the auto. Schlers's throat

[1:19] had been slit. Hope that the

[1:21] industrialist would ever be seen alive

[1:22] again had dimmed on Monday after a West

[1:25] German anti-terror unit rescued 86

[1:27] hostages aboard a hijacked airliner in

[1:29] Somalia. Meanwhile, this film showing

[1:32] Mogadishu Somalia's airport shortly

[1:34] after the German commando rescue raid

[1:36] arrived in Europe as new details of the

[1:39] rescue operation were revealed by the

[1:40] West German government. Officials say

[1:43] the 86 freed hostages survived a brutal

[1:46] gun battle between the terrorists and

[1:48] the commandos as the four hijackers made

[1:50] a lastditch attempt to blow up the

[1:52] aircraft with all aboard. A German

[1:55] commando report said one of the

[1:56] terrorists threw two hand grenades among

[1:58] the passengers and the explosions

[2:00] injured at least 11 hostages. All 11

[2:04] suffered wounds about the legs when the

[2:05] grenades exploded on the cabin floor.

[2:08] It was the lone woman among the four

[2:10] hijackers who survived, having locked

[2:12] herself in a lavatory. And then, when

[2:15] the shooting appeared to be over, she

[2:16] emerged and fired several shots at a

[2:18] commando before being critically wounded

[2:20] herself.

[2:22] After the ordeal, some of the hostages

[2:24] told stories of a screaming and nervous

[2:26] terrorist commander who checked

[2:28] passports and jewelry looking for Jews

[2:30] among the passengers.

[2:34] The two American hijacking hostages were

[2:36] Mrs. Christine Santiago and her

[2:38] 5-year-old son Leo from Santi,

[2:40] California. Today in Frankfurt, West

[2:43] Germany, Mrs. Santiago barred cameras

[2:45] from a news conference where she said

[2:47] she feared most for the life of her son.

[2:49] The woman said the commander of the

[2:51] terrorist squad told her she was