CBS Evening News - 1985-10-09
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[0:05] Four hijackers leave the Achilaro, wave
[0:08] from an Egyptian tub. They are promised
[0:10] safe passage. The world learns later
[0:13] they have killed. Ailing and elderly
[0:15] Leon Clinghopper, one of the American
[0:17] hostages, is nowhere to be found aboard
[0:20] the ship. He is presumed dead. Good
[0:22] evening. This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:24] Dan Rather reporting. It's over. Many of
[0:26] the questions are not. after talking to
[0:29] Egyptian and PLO officials. The
[0:31] Palestinian kidnappers who took hundreds
[0:33] aboard the Achilaro on a two-day terror
[0:35] cruise gave up and got off. Four
[0:38] hijackers were taken from the ship and
[0:40] promised safe passage out of Egypt. Who
[0:42] promised them that and where they are
[0:44] now are not known. And there are now
[0:47] several reports that one American
[0:49] hostage, 69-year-old Leon Cliffher, was
[0:52] killed yesterday, his body tossed
[0:54] overboard. The White House says it still
[0:56] cannot confirm this. The cruise ship
[0:58] itself tonight is reported about 5 miles
[1:00] off the coast of Port Sed Egypt. Doug
[1:03] Tanell has the latest from Egypt.
[1:08] Egypt called it unconditional surrender.
[1:11] But when the hijackers left the Achily
[1:13] Laurel on a tugboat this evening, they
[1:14] had a guarantee of safe passage out of
[1:17] Egypt. There were reportedly only four
[1:20] of them. Free men waving happily to
[1:22] onlookers. that they have left uh the
[1:25] ship about at about 4:30 this afternoon.
[1:29] Nobody has been hurt.
[1:31] >> Diplomats in Cairo were unaware of the
[1:33] reported murder of one American aboard
[1:35] the Achiloro. The hijacking ended after
[1:38] hours of deliberations between Egyptian
[1:40] officials and West