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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1985
Page
3
Parishioners at St Margaret Mary Church in Algonquin Illinois link hands and sing a hymn during a prayer service for hostages aboard a TWA jetliner hijacked in the Middle East. Several church members were returning from a pilgrimage when the incident occurred.
The piece notes a long history of airliner hijackings by Middle Eastern extremist groups. It cites a TWA Athens to Rome hijack with 153 aboard, and describes tactics used to pressure governments, including demands to withdraw Israelis from southern Lebanon and other actions. It recalls historic attacks and ransom payments linked to Palestinian and Shiite groups and references past incidents from 1968 onward.
Richmond Missouri gradual portrait of John Testrake a 57 year old TWA pilot tied to the Beirut and Algiers hijacking crisis friends and family say he always wanted to fly international routes his daughter Diane Smith describes him as easygoing and devoted to getting passengers out safely while he remains in Richmond a 60 acre farm town near Kansas City where he has lived since joining the Navy in 1944 and later piloting international flights since March
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