CBS Evening News - 1981-03-14
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[0:00] Tonight.
[0:01] Good evening. The longest and probably
[0:03] most complicated hijacking on record
[0:05] ended tonight finally in Damascus, Syria
[0:07] 13 days after it began over Pakistan.
[0:10] The three Pakistani hijackers released
[0:12] more than 100 hostages and surrendered
[0:14] moments after a plane carrying more than
[0:16] 50 free Pakistani prisoners touched
[0:19] down. One of the free hostages described
[0:21] the experience as 300 hours of looking
[0:23] down a machine gun barrel. For the free
[0:25] Pakistani political prisoners whose
[0:27] release was demanded by the hijackers,
[0:29] they began in Aleppo in Syria. Larry
[0:32] Pintak picks up the story there.
[0:35] As the Pakistani prisoners came down the
[0:37] ramp at Aleppo in northern Syria, it
[0:40] looked as if the ordeal of almost 2
[0:41] weeks was coming to an end.
[0:44] The 53 men and one woman were to be the
[0:47] key element of a carefully crafted
[0:49] arrangement that would finally lead to
[0:51] freedom not only for them, but for more
[0:53] than 100 people held on board a hijacked
[0:55] Pakistani airliner in Damascus. A few of
[0:59] the prisoners who emerged in Aleppo
[1:00] shouted slogans against the regime of
[1:02] President Zia ul-Haq.
[1:05] But most were after brief medical
[1:06] examination silently holding their hands
[1:09] high above their heads in a victory
[1:10] salute, confident that they would be
[1:13] reunited with their comrades who had
[1:15] hijacked the plane 13 days ago.
[1:17] With them in Aleppo was Pakistan's
[1:19] education minister who when he arrived
[1:21] in Damascus sounded like a man who felt
[1:24] the worst was over. And I have come here
[1:26] especially to thank the people and the
[1:29] government of Syria for their k