Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxii.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxii!tw8023 From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: One man's opinion. Message-ID: <156@pyuxii.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 08:31:34 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxii.156 Posted: Mon Jul 8 08:31:34 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 07:09:57 EDT References: <2983@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 15 I would like to correct one mistake many posters are making concerning the recent hijacking. The terrorist's original demands had nothing to do with the 700 + prisoners in Isreal. The original demands were the release of terrorists being held in a Spanish jail, the release of others in another prison, and the payment of 2 million dollars in ransom. The demands changed during one of those several Algeria-Lebonan flights. Someone had to have pointed out to them the futility of the original demands. And, since it was probably already known that the 700+ were to be released anyway, this would be a better goal, plus it would cause a bigger fuss between the US and Isreal. I feel that there was a lot more to the change in demands than meets the eye. T. C. Wheeler