CBS News - various reports - 1970-09-12

Name: CBS News - various reports - 1970-09-12
Uploaded: 2025-07-25
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[0:10] The fact that the ordeal for some was

[0:12] ending and that the prospects of many

[0:14] others getting out alive were brighter

[0:16] was the result of a change in guerilla

[0:18] management of the affair. from control

[0:20] by the Mauist ultra fanatical popular

[0:22] front for the liberation of Palestine

[0:24] which carried out the hijackings to

[0:26] control by the guerilla council that

[0:27] oversees the front and 10 other guerilla

[0:29] groups.

[0:29] >> Get your passport.

[0:30] >> The first hint of the change came when

[0:32] the women and children and the ill men

[0:34] who had been permitted to come into Aman

[0:36] from the desert air strip earlier this

[0:37] week were called into a meeting with Red

[0:39] Cross officials and members of the

[0:40] front. Some, but not all were given back

[0:43] their passports. CBS News correspondent

[0:46] Ike Papus was with them.

[0:49] You got your passport back?

[0:50] >> Yes, I did.

[0:51] >> What did the uh Jordanians tell you

[0:53] about why they gave you your passport

[0:55] back?

[0:55] >> They didn't say why. They just said that

[0:57] they were giving back some passports and

[0:59] that we would all get them, but they had

[1:01] some of them now and the rest would get

[1:03] them later.

[1:04] >> Do you feel any resentment at all?

[1:06] >> We were treated very well, but it's like

[1:07] a nightmare. It's unbelievable.

[1:09] Something that happens to somebody else.

[1:11] >> Did you at any time feel that uh you

[1:13] might be placed aboard that plane and

[1:16] perish in it? Yes, I didn't.

[1:20] >> But they assured us we wouldn't. But you

[1:22] worry.

[1:23] >> They told you that you would not.

[1:24] >> They They said you will be all right.

[1:26] They assured us you will be all right.

[1:27] We do not