CBS News - "The Hijack Conspiracy" - 1970-09-09
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[0:03] because of the following CBS News
[0:05] special report the Merv Griffin Show
[0:07] will begin at 12:00 11 Central time
[0:13] tonight some 300 persons and three
[0:16] expensive airliners of three nations are
[0:19] waiting now on a desert air strip in
[0:21] Jordan waiting for the world's diplomats
[0:23] to find the answer to a Middle East
[0:25] crisis of frightening Dimensions waiting
[0:28] in the sweltering heat of a metal
[0:30] aircraft under a broiling Sun hostages
[0:32] of the 20th century equivalent of the
[0:34] barbery Pirates we simply can't tolerate
[0:38] the situation you can't go on endlessly
[0:40] like this uh we've been so fortunate in
[0:43] not not having complete disasters the
[0:45] one where the aircraft was blowing up in
[0:47] the air but there could have been any
[0:50] number of other ones we just uh it just
[0:53] from a technical from a pilot's
[0:55] Viewpoint we just figured that sooner or
[0:57] later there's going to be if this
[1:00] continues there's going to be worse
[1:02] disasters don't you feel that your War
[1:04] policy of violence is moving you into a
[1:06] dead end from which you will not be able
[1:08] to escape and move to a policy of
[1:10] peaceful accommodation what do we have
[1:12] to lose Mr H all we have left as
[1:15] Palestinians is the Tet tense that has
[1:18] been given to us by countries which give
[1:20] our adversary our enemy the Phantoms and
[1:24] the a to burn the tenant and to burn our
[1:27] people good evening just a few hours ago
[1:30] the deadline set by the guerillas for
[1:32] the release of their terrorist comrades
[1:34] expired but instead of blowing up their
[1:37] captive planes and passengers they
[1:39] announced an indefinite extension of
[1:40] their ultim