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Hijacking / Follow-Up #70567

ABC Evening News for Monday, Mar 16, 1981
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(Studio) Time passengers aboard hijacked Pakistani airliner were held recalled.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings

(Damascus, Syria) Departure for Mecca of freed Pakistani passengers and for West Germany of American busman. Fred Hubbell noted; Craig Clymore said refusing to discuss drug smuggling chgs. against him. [CLYMORE - describes passengers' reaction to hijacking.] Passenger traveling as American Lawrence Mangnum said actually escaped Canadian fugitive Lawrence Lome; details given.
REPORTER: Jacques Grenier

(Studio) Hijackers said thought still in Syria; spies for Libya and USSR said among those freed from Pakistani jails as part of terrorists' demands. Charlotte Hubbell, freed by hijackers earlier, reported claiming terrorists said they had been trained by PLO; details given.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings

(Studio) Clymore's future considered; upcoming items announced.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

Reporter(s):
Grenier, Jacques;
Jennings, Peter;
Reynolds, Frank
Duration:
00:02:40

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