Hijacked!
Narrator : On the morning of September 6th, 1970, three teams of Palestinian hijackers -- all in their mid-20s -- arrived at different European airports.
旁白:1970年9月6日上午,三队巴勒斯坦劫机者——全部20多岁——抵达欧洲不同机场。
They were going to hijack three planes bound for the United States They would divert them to a landing strip in the Jordanian desert, hold passengers and crew as hostages, and use them to gain the release of Palestinian militants held in Europe and Israel.
他们打算劫持三架飞往美国的飞机,将它们转移到约旦沙漠的一个着陆跑道,将乘客和机组人员扣为人质,并利用它们来释放被关押在欧洲和以色列的巴勒斯坦武装分子。
The plan was the brainchild of a small guerrilla group, the PFLP -- the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
该计划是一个小型游击队“人阵”(解放巴勒斯坦人民阵线)的创意。
Narrator : The first targeted plane was El Al flight 219 from Amsterdam to New York.
旁白:第一架目标飞机是以色列航空公司从阿姆斯特丹飞往纽约的 219 号航班。
Four hijackers were assigned to take it over, including a Palestinian woman, Leila Khaled.
四名劫机者被指派接管飞机,其中包括一名巴勒斯坦妇女莱拉·哈立德。
Leila Khaled, Hijacker : We knew that the plane had armed guards.
莱拉·哈立德(Leila Khaled),劫机者:我们知道飞机上有武装警卫。
But who could resist four people armed with guns and hand grenades?
但谁能抵挡四个拿着枪和手榴弹的人呢?
We thought they would be afraid of us.
我们以为他们会害怕我们。
Uri Bar Lev, Captain : We began the pre-flight check-ups.
Uri Bar Lev,机长:我们开始了飞行前检查。
Then the El Al station manager and the head of security came in to the cockpit.
然后以色列航空站经理和安全负责人走进驾驶舱。
They told me: "Listen, we have four suspicious passengers." I asked, "Why are they suspicious?" The head of security told me that they all bought their tickets in advance, but they all came in the last minute to pick them up.
他们告诉我:“听着,我们有四名可疑乘客。”我问:“他们为什么怀疑?”保安负责人告诉我,他们都是提前买票的,但都是最后一刻才来取票的。
Two had bought tickets for first class and two for economy.
两人买了头等舱的票,两人买了经济舱的票。
Those from economy class were light-skinned.
经济舱的乘客肤色较浅。
Those who had bought tickets for first class were black.
买头等舱票的都是黑人。
They had Senegalese passports and their passport numbers were in sequence; one ended in five, the other one ended in six.
他们持有塞内加尔护照,护照号码按顺序排列;一场以五分结束,另一场以六分结束。
Narrator : Captain Lev decided to allow Khaled and her partner, Patrick Arguello, a Nicaraguan-American sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, to remain on the flight.
旁白:列夫机长决定允许哈立德和她的搭档、同情巴勒斯坦事业的尼加拉瓜裔美国人帕特里克·阿奎洛继续留在飞机上。
He had the two Palestinians with suspicious passports removed.
他拿走了两名持有可疑护照的巴勒斯坦人。
Michal Adar, Flight Attendant : About 20 minutes after taking off, when the plane had almost reached its cruising altitude, we heard a scream from the economy section.
Michal Adar,空乘人员:起飞大约 20 分钟后,当飞机快要达到巡航高度时,我们听到经济舱里传来一声尖叫。
The purser told me to go back to economy and see what was happening.
事务长让我回到经济舱看看发生了什么。
Leila Khaled : We ran towards the cockpit.
Leila Khaled:我们跑向驾驶舱。
We passed through the first class -- it was a matter of seconds.
我们过了第一堂课——只用了几秒钟的时间。
I heard some shooting and then I saw someone in first class grabbing the telephone and trying to call someone.
我听到一些枪声,然后我看到头等舱里有人抓起电话试图打电话给某人。
Michal Adar : I entered the first class cabin.
Michal Adar:我进入头等舱。
It was empty.
里面是空的。
Then I saw a fist tear the curtain.
然后我看到一只拳头撕裂了窗帘。
A nice looking man in his early twenties was looking at me.
一个二十岁出头、相貌英俊的男人正看着我。
He had a grenade in one hand, a pistol in the other.
他一只手拿着一枚手榴弹,另一只手拿着一把手枪。
He said, in English, "Open the cockpit door."
他用英语说:“打开驾驶舱门。”
Leila Khaled : I showed them the two activated hand grenades and asked them to open the door.
莱拉·哈立德:我给他们看了两枚已启动的手榴弹,并要求他们打开门。
One of the flight attendants was also banging on the door saying, "Open!
一名空姐也敲着门说:“开门!
Open!" Someone looked through the peephole but did not open the door.
打开!”有人从猫眼里张望,但没有开门。
Uri Bar Lev : We heard the knocks on the door and the purser Abraham rang, calling us on the intercom.
Uri Bar Lev:我们听到了敲门声,事务长亚伯拉罕按响了电话,用对讲机呼叫我们。
He told me: "there are a male and a female hijacker.
他告诉我:“劫机者有一男一女。
They demand that you should open the cockpit door, otherwise they will kill and blow up the plane.
他们要求你打开驾驶舱门,否则他们会杀死并炸毁飞机。
I decided that we were not going to be hijacked.
我决定我们不会被劫持。
The security guy was sitting here ready to jump.
保安坐在这里准备跳楼。
I told him that I was going to put the plane into negative-G mode.
我告诉他我要把飞机设置为负重力模式。
Everyone would fall.
每个人都会跌倒。
When you put the plane into negative, it's like being in a falling elevator.
当你把飞机调到负值时,就像在坠落的电梯里一样。
Instead of the plane flying this way, it dives and everyone who is standing falls down.
飞机不是以这种方式飞行,而是俯冲,所有站着的人都摔倒了。
Narrator : In the chaos created by the sudden dive of the plane, several passengers overpowered Khaled.
旁白:在飞机突然俯冲造成的混乱中,几名乘客压倒了哈立德。
One of the air marshals on board shot Arguello.
机上的一名空警开枪射杀了阿奎洛。
Less than an hour after take off, El Al flight 219 made an emergency landing in London.
起飞后不到一个小时,以色列航空 219 号航班紧急降落在伦敦。
Leila Khaled was arrested.
莱拉·哈立德被捕。
Patrick Arguello was taken to a local hospital, where he was declared dead upon arrival.
帕特里克·阿奎洛被送往当地一家医院,抵达后被宣布死亡。
In failing to hijack the El Al plane, the PFLP had lost its most important target.
由于劫持以色列航空公司飞机失败,人阵失去了最重要的目标。
It had hoped to use the Israeli passengers on board to force Israel to release Palestinians held prisoner.
它原本希望利用船上的以色列乘客来迫使以色列释放被关押的巴勒斯坦人。
But the multiple hijacking plan had not gone completely awry.
但多次劫持计划并没有完全出错。
Earlier that morning, on TWA flight 74 from Frankfurt to New York, hijackers had met little resistance.
当天早上早些时候,在从法兰克福飞往纽约的环球航空 74 号航班上,劫机者几乎没有遇到任何抵抗。
Rudi Swinkels, Purser : I saw a passenger running towards first class.
Rudi Swinkels,乘务长:我看到一名乘客跑向头等舱。
I ran after him and when he came to first class to the cockpit, he turned around, had a gun in his hand, and pointed the gun at me, and said, "Get back, get back." So right away, I dove behind the bulkhead first class divider and I hid behind it, over here.
我追着他跑,当他来到头等舱驾驶舱时,他转过身来,手里拿着枪,用枪指着我,说:“退后,退后。”所以我立即潜入舱壁头等舱分隔板后面,躲在它后面,就在这里。
Rivke Berkowitz, Passenger : A woman's voice came over the loud speaker and she said, "This is your new captain speaking.
Rivke Berkowitz,乘客:扬声器中传来一个女人的声音,她说:“这是你们的新机长在讲话。
This flight has been taken over by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
该航班已被解放巴勒斯坦人民阵线接管。
We will take you to a friendly country with friendly people."
我们将带你去一个有友好人民的友好国家。”
Narrator : Swiss Air flight 100 from Zurich to New York was seized minutes later and diverted.
旁白:瑞士航空从苏黎世飞往纽约的 100 号航班几分钟后被扣押并改道。
The two planes carrying more than 300 hostages were now headed toward the Middle East.
两架载有300多名人质的飞机目前正飞往中东。
Marvin Kalb, Journalist : I heard about the story because, in fact, the CBS Newsroom in Washington alerted me.
马文·卡尔布(Marvin Kalb),记者:我听说这个故事是因为事实上,华盛顿的哥伦比亚广播公司新闻室提醒了我。
This was America's introduction to global terrorists.
这是美国对全球恐怖分子的介绍。
America really had not had any serious exposure to terrorism before this time.
在此之前,美国确实没有严重接触过恐怖主义。
And it took another day or so before many of us realized that most of the people on the planes were Americans.
又过了一天左右,我们中的许多人才意识到飞机上的大多数人都是美国人。
Walter Cronkite (archival) : Palestinian guerrillas in a bold coordinated action created this newest crisis Sunday, and in so doing, they accomplished what they set out to do.
沃尔特·克朗凯特(档案):周日,巴勒斯坦游击队通过大胆的协调行动制造了这场最新的危机,并通过这样做,他们完成了他们打算做的事情。
They thrust back to the world's attention a problem diplomats have tended to shove aside in hesitant steps towards Middle East peace.
他们让世界重新注意到这个问题,而外交官们在实现中东和平的进程中犹豫不决,往往将其抛在一边。
Narrator : By early evening President Richard Nixon had cut short his Labor Day weekend in California and returned to Washington.
旁白:傍晚时分,理查德·尼克松总统缩短了在加利福尼亚州的劳动节周末,返回华盛顿。
The White House's primary cause for concern was the delicate Cold War balance of power in the Middle East.
白宫担心的首要原因是中东地区微妙的冷战力量平衡。
At the time, the U.S. was allied with Israel and the Soviet Union with most Arab countries.
当时,美国与以色列结盟,苏联与大多数阿拉伯国家结盟。
Nixon decided that he and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, would personally manage the crisis.
尼克松决定由他和他的国家安全顾问亨利·基辛格亲自处理这场危机。
Marvin Kalb : We have to remember that in those days, the fundamental issue for Nixon and Kissinger was: in what way does a foreign policy issue affect the balance of power between the United States and the Soviet Union?
马文·卡尔布:我们必须记住,当时尼克松和基辛格面临的根本问题是:外交政策问题如何影响美国和苏联之间的力量平衡?
That was the thing right upfront in their minds.
这就是他们心中最先想到的事情。
And at this point, they did not know immediately how it would affect the balance, but they knew it could, and that's what was important.
此时,他们并不立即知道这会如何影响平衡,但他们知道它可以,这就是重要的。
Narrator : Three planes had been targeted for hijacking on September 6.
旁白:9月6日,三架飞机成为劫持目标。
There would soon be a fourth.
很快就会有第四个。
After being removed from the El Al flight, the two Palestinians with Senegalese passports managed to purchase first class tickets on Pan Am flight 93 from Amsterdam to New York.
两名持有塞内加尔护照的巴勒斯坦人被从以色列航空航班上带走后,设法购买了从阿姆斯特丹飞往纽约的泛美航空 93 号航班的头等舱机票。
John Feruggio, Flight Director : We were ready for take off in Amsterdam, and the airplane came to an abrupt stop in the middle of the runway.
约翰·费鲁吉奥 (John Feruggio),飞行总监:我们准备在阿姆斯特丹起飞,飞机突然停在跑道中间。
And Captain Priddy called me up into the cockpit and says, "I'd like to have a word with you." I went up to the cockpit, and he says, "We have two passengers by the name of Diop and Gueye." He says, "Go down and try to find them in the manifest, because I would like to have a word with them."
普里迪机长把我叫进驾驶舱并说:“我想和你说句话。”我走到驾驶舱,他说:“我们有两名乘客,名叫迪奥普和盖耶。”他说:“下去尝试在清单中找到他们,因为我想和他们谈谈。”
Pat Lavix, Co-Pilot : Captain Priddy said to them, "I apologize for asking but I am going to have to search you.
副驾驶帕特·拉维克斯:普里迪机长对他们说:“我很抱歉这么问,但我必须对你们进行搜身。
And they said, "Search us."
他们说:“搜查我们。”
John Ferruggio : So Captain Priddy sat them down at these two seats over here.
约翰·费鲁吉奥:普里迪船长让他们坐在这边的两个座位上。
He gave them a pretty good pat.
他拍了拍他们。
They had a Styrofoam container in their groin area where they carried the grenade, and the 25mm pistols.
他们的腹股沟区域有一个聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料容器,里面装有手榴弹和 25 毫米手枪。
But this we found out much later.
但这是我们很久以后才发现的。
Control Tower : This is clipper 93 clear for take-off...
控制塔: 这是 Clipper 93 准备起飞...
Pat Lavix : This was all prior to take-off and then we talked to the company, and the company agreed, go ahead, so now we've been given permission to take off and we did.
帕特·拉维克斯:这都是在起飞之前进行的,然后我们与公司进行了交谈,公司同意继续进行,所以现在我们已获得起飞许可,我们做到了。
Narrator : With their hidden weapons, the hijackers easily seized the plane and forced the pilot to fly toward the Middle East.
旁白:劫机者凭借隐藏的武器,轻松劫持了飞机,并迫使飞行员飞往中东。
By late afternoon, news of the multiple hijackings reached Amman's Intercontinental Hotel.
下午晚些时候,多起劫持事件的消息传到了安曼的洲际酒店。
Gerald Seymour, Journalist : It's a Sunday afternoon, the bar would have been open and then the first telex came through telling us of the hijacking.
杰拉尔德·西摩(Gerald Seymour),记者:那是一个周日下午,酒吧本来开门营业,然后第一封电传告诉我们劫机事件。
So we had the El Al, then we were hearing of a TWA, then we were hearing of a Swiss Air, then we were hearing of a Pan American, and now we were getting -- you know -- a bit fidgety because this is on a scale of hijacking that none of us had seen before.
所以我们有以色列航空,然后我们听说了环球航空,然后我们听说了瑞士航空,然后我们听说了泛美航空,现在我们 - 你知道 - 有点坐立不安,因为这是我们以前从未见过的劫机规模。
As dusk came, I remember the first message coming in, which really set us a light, that planes were believed to be heading towards Jordanian airspace.
黄昏到来时,我记得收到的第一条消息,这确实让我们眼前一亮,据信飞机正飞往约旦领空。
Narrator : The PFLP was part of a growing Palestinian guerrilla movement based in Jordan.
旁白:人阵是约旦不断壮大的巴勒斯坦游击队运动的一部分。
Stunned by Israel's victory over their Arab allies in the Six Days War three years earlier, many Palestinians felt that they needed to take control of their fate -- by any means possible.
许多巴勒斯坦人对三年前的六日战争中以色列战胜阿拉伯盟友感到震惊,认为他们需要以任何可能的方式掌控自己的命运。
George Habash, PFLP, Co-Founder : What happened in the 1967 War destroyed our dreams.
George Habash,PFLP,联合创始人:1967 年战争中发生的事情摧毁了我们的梦想。
We said that the world does not understand or know about the Palestinian problem.
我们说过,世界不了解也不了解巴勒斯坦问题。
This is how the idea of hijacking planes came about.
劫持飞机的想法就是这样产生的。
Let the whole world know about the crisis that happened to us.
让全世界都知道发生在我们身上的危机。
Bassam Abu Sharif, PFLP, Spokesman : The main goal of this operation was to gain the release of all of our political prisoners jailed in Israel in exchange for the hostages.
巴萨姆·阿布·谢里夫(Bassam Abu Sharif),人阵,发言人:这次行动的主要目标是释放所有被关押在以色列的政治犯,以换取人质。
William Quandt, National Security Council : This was in an era when Vietnam had demonstrated that small, backward countries could stand up to Superpowers, and there was some sense in which the Palestinians were trying to emulate that.
威廉·匡特(William Quandt),国家安全委员会:在这个时代,越南证明了落后的小国可以对抗超级大国,从某种意义上说,巴勒斯坦人正在试图效仿这一点。
I think the Palestinians generally -- and the PFLP within the Palestinian movement -- knew they had a weak hand.
我认为巴勒斯坦人——以及巴勒斯坦运动中的人阵——都知道他们处于弱势。
The guerrilla war option was not going to work quite as it had in Vietnam.
游击战争的选择不会像在越南那样有效。
So I think they were always were trying to find ways to do things that had highly dramatic content to get attention.
所以我认为他们总是想方设法做一些具有高度戏剧性内容的事情来吸引注意力。
Narrator : The hijacked airliners were being flown to an abandoned airstrip in the Jordanian desert: a remote site under Palestinian control.
旁白:被劫持的客机正飞往约旦沙漠中的一个废弃机场:巴勒斯坦控制下的一个偏远地点。
The hijackers had dubbed it "Revolution Airport."
劫机者将其称为“革命机场”。
Bassam Abu Sharif : One of our commanders asked me to go to Revolution Airport.
巴萨姆·阿布·谢里夫:我们的一位指挥官让我去革命机场。
I asked, "Where is that airport?" He said, "Some guys will lead you.
我问:“那个机场在哪里?”他说:“有些人会领导你。
But it is not an airport.
但它不是机场。
It is a desert."
这是一片沙漠。”
Abu Samir, "Revolution Airport," PFLP : In this area the ground is very hard.
Abu Samir,“革命机场”,PFLP:这个地区的地面非常坚硬。
The largest planes on earth could land there.
地球上最大的飞机可以在那里降落。
I asked our commander, "why did you choose this place?" He told me that a geologist had confirmed that the strip could support anything -- even if the Devil walked on it.
我问我们的指挥官:“为什么选择这个地方?”他告诉我,一位地质学家已经证实,这条带可以支撑任何东西——即使魔鬼在上面行走。
In order to make an airport, what should one do?
为了建造一个机场,我们应该做什么?
We brought 200 barrels and gallons of diesel and a group of fighters to protect the area.
我们带来了 200 桶和加仑的柴油以及一群战士来保护该地区。
We filled barrels with dust and with diesel-soaked rags, and we sat and waited.
我们在桶里装满灰尘和浸过柴油的抹布,然后坐下来等待。
Narrator Revolution Airport was in one of the many areas of Jordan controlled by Palestinian factions, that had united under an umbrella group, the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
叙述者革命机场位于约旦由巴勒斯坦各派别控制的众多地区之一,这些派别在巴勒斯坦解放组织这一保护伞组织下联合起来。
Talcott Seelye, State Dept.
塔尔科特·西耶,国务院
Task Force : We had in Jordan a situation where the PLO had created a state within a state.
特别工作组:我们在约旦遇到过巴解组织在国中创建国的情况。
They had roadblocks all over Amman, the capital.
他们在首都安曼各地设置了路障。
They were controlling the North...
他们控制着北方...
They were challenging the leadership of King Hussein.
他们正在挑战侯赛因国王的领导。
William Quandt : The first time I ever went to Jordan, it was in the early part of 1970 and you literally could not travel around in Amman without a PLO escort.
William Quandt:我第一次去约旦是在 1970 年初,如果没有巴解组织的护送,你根本无法在安曼旅行。
It as if the Jordanian state had ceased to exist.
就好像约旦国家已经不复存在了。
Ambassador Seelye : So you had the hostage crisis, which was kind of a spark for an already incendiary situation.
西耶大使:人质危机是本已激烈的局势的导火索。
Narrator : TWA Flight 74 from Frankfurt was the first to land at Revolution Airport, touching down at 6:45pm.
旁白:从法兰克福出发的环球航空 74 号航班是首个降落在革命机场的航班,于下午 6 点 45 分着陆。
On board were 145 passengers and 10 crewmembers.
机上有145名乘客和10名机组人员。
Rudi Swinkels, Purser : We circled a couple of times, and after we landed we looked outside and we saw, like torches stuck in oil drums.
鲁迪·斯文克斯 (Rudi Swinkels),乘务长:我们绕了几圈,着陆后向外望去,我们看到,就像卡在油桶里的火把。
Abu Samir : We were afraid.
阿布·萨米尔:我们很害怕。
Could you imagine how the passengers felt?
你能想象乘客的感受吗?
We were anxious that the operation would fail .
我们担心手术会失败。
..it was a big responsibility.
..这是一个很大的责任。
Rivke Berkowitz, Passenger : As soon as we touched ground, the plane was rushed by people in army fatigues with Kafias on, and with all kinds of weaponry that I had not seen in my life.
Rivke Berkowitz,乘客:我们一落地,飞机就被穿着军装、戴着卡菲亚斯的人们冲了过来,他们还配备了我一生中从未见过的各种武器。
Narrator : Barely ten minutes later, Swiss Air flight 100 from Zurich landed with 143 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
旁白:不到十分钟后,瑞士航空100号航班从苏黎世起飞,机上载有143名乘客和12名机组人员。
Paul Fehse, Passenger : I looked outside.
Paul Fehse,乘客:我向外看了看。
I see nothing.
我什么也没看见。
And then, out of the blue -- boom -- we hit hard.
然后,出乎意料地——轰——我们受到了重击。
We hit so hard I thought we had crashed.
我们撞得很厉害,我以为我们已经坠毁了。
And everybody was rushing for the doors, thinking the plane was going to blow up.
每个人都冲向舱门,认为飞机要爆炸了。
Bassam Abu Sharif : I saw an old lady opening her purse taking dollars bills.
巴萨姆·阿布·谢里夫:我看到一位老太太打开钱包,拿走了美元。
She tried to put them in the hand of one of our fighters.
她试图将它们交给我们的一名战士手中。
I spanked her hand.
我打了她的手。
She was scared to death.
她吓得要死。
I said, "Take back your money.
我说:“把钱拿回来。”
We are not thieves; we are people fighting for freedom."
我们不是小偷;我们是为自由而战的人。”
Narrator : "The desert grew very cold at night," Bassam Abu Sharif would later write in his diary.
旁白:“沙漠在夜间变得非常寒冷,”巴萨姆·阿布·谢里夫后来在他的日记中写道。
"My comrades went around wiring detonators to large lumps of plastic explosives placed under the seats."
“我的战友们把雷管连接到座位下面的大块塑料炸药上。”
Narrator : There was still one more hijacked plane in the air: Pan Am flight 93.
旁白:空中还有一架被劫持的飞机:泛美航空 93 号航班。
Its pilot, Captain John Priddy, convinced the hijackers that the 747 was too big to land in the desert.
飞行员约翰·普里迪 (John Priddy) 机长让劫机者相信 747 太大,无法降落在沙漠中。
After refueling in Beirut, the plane headed towards Cairo.
在贝鲁特加油后,飞机飞往开罗。
John Ferruggio : We took off out of Beirut, and shortly after that I saw the demolition individual with a suitcase and he was wiring up the airplane with dynamite.
约翰·费鲁吉奥:我们从贝鲁特起飞,不久之后我看到拆除人员提着一个手提箱,他正在用炸药给飞机接线。
And I said to him, "What's going to happen to this airplane?" And he said, "What do you care about this imperialistic airplane?" I said, "What about my imperialistic ass and my passengers?"
我对他说:“这架飞机会发生什么?”他说:“你关心这架帝国主义飞机做什么?”我说:“那我的帝国主义屁股和乘客呢?”
Pat Lavix : We had to circle.
Pat Lavix:我们必须绕圈。
The hijackers would look out the window and they would confirm: "Yes, indeed, this is Cairo." They could tell even though it was nighttime.
劫机者会看着窗外,然后确认:“是的,确实,这是开罗。”即使是在晚上,他们也能看出来。
John Ferruggio : And I said to all the attendants: "Now hear this, and hear it good.
约翰·费鲁吉奥:我对所有的服务员说:“现在听听这个,好好听。
When this plane comes to a complete stop in Cairo..." [which was our destination point] I said, "Don't wait for me, don't wait for the captain, and don't wait for Jesus Christ.
当这架飞机完全停在开罗时……”[这是我们的目的地]我说,“不要等我,不要等机长,不要等耶稣基督。
We are going to evacuate the plane, like right now.
我们要像现在一样撤离飞机。
I looked around and saw this gentlemen lighting up fuses on dynamite as we were descending.
当我们下降时,我环顾四周,看到这位绅士用炸药点燃引信。
Narrator : Flight director John Ferrugio hurriedly gave evacuation instructions, which one of the passengers managed to record on a tape deck.
旁白:飞行指挥约翰·费鲁吉奥(John Ferrugio)匆忙发出疏散指示,其中一名乘客设法将其记录在录音机上。
John Ferruggio (recorded evacuation order) : We don't want you to do this here so that nobody will get hurt.
John Ferruggio(疏散命令记录):我们不希望您在这里这样做,这样就不会有人受伤。
Just pay attention to what your stewardess says.
只要注意空姐所说的即可。
At each door, go down to the bottom of the ramp and then get away from the aircraft."
在每个门处,下到坡道底部,然后远离飞机。”
Pat Lavix : We were probably no more than 40 or 50, 60 feet away from the airplane and the entire cockpit blew off.
Pat Lavix:我们距离飞机可能不超过 40 或 50、60 英尺,整个驾驶舱都被炸飞了。
When I looked up at the nose of the airplane, it was gone, and I could see the captain's seat was sitting on the floor all by itself.
当我抬头看飞机的机头时,它已经消失了,我可以看到机长的座位独自坐在地板上。
Narrator :All the passengers and crew managed to escape safely.
旁白:所有乘客和机组人员均设法安全逃脱。
The hijackers were arrested by Egyptian police.
劫机者被埃及警方逮捕。
Gerald Seymour : We are bumping along a dirt road, seeing absolutely nothing, when over the top of the hill comes a Jeep Land rover, a great dust storm bellowing along behind it.
杰拉尔德·西摩:我们正沿着一条土路颠簸,什么也看不见,这时一辆吉普路虎从山顶开过来,后面有一场巨大的沙尘暴呼啸而过。
We waved the chap down; it's an Italian engineer.
我们挥手示意那家伙下去。这是一位意大利工程师。
"Excuse me, Sir, have you seen any airplanes?" (...which might seem a pretty damn fatuous question...) "Yes," he said, "over there." "Thank you." And we powered back in, and bump along a bit further, and then we go over a rim ...
“请问先生,您见过飞机吗?” (……这似乎是一个相当愚蠢的问题……)“是的,”他说,“就在那儿。” “谢谢。”然后我们重新启动,并进一步颠簸,然后我们越过边缘......
It's a hell of a long time ago, and I can see that sight absolutely clearly in my mind now.
那是很久以前的事了,现在我的脑海里还清晰地看到了那一幕。
They were laid out like little children's toys.
它们像小孩子的玩具一样摆放着。
We just stopped there in amazement because we were in the middle of nowhere.
我们惊讶地停在那里,因为我们正处于一个偏僻的地方。
Narrator : Mid-morning, the PFLP issued their first ultimatum: they would blow up the planes with their passengers onboard, unless Leila Khaled, and Palestinian militants imprisoned in Israel and Europe were released within 72 hours.
旁白:上午,人阵发出了他们的第一份最后通牒:他们将炸毁载有乘客的飞机,除非莱拉·哈立德以及被关押在以色列和欧洲的巴勒斯坦武装分子在72小时内获释。
The U.S. and European countries whose citizens were being held hostage, agreed to negotiate with the PFLP via the International Red Cross.
公民被扣为人质的美国和欧洲国家同意通过国际红十字会与人阵进行谈判。
Israel refused to participate in the negotiations.
以色列拒绝参加谈判。
Gerald Seymour : The PFLP spokesman had decided that having got the media there -- and our ranks had swelled during the course of the day -- what he needed to do was to have a news conference.
杰拉尔德·西摩:人阵发言人决定,在媒体到场后,我们的队伍在这一天里已经扩大了,他需要做的是召开新闻发布会。
Q: "Excuse me we want the captain and the stewardess to tell us about the sanitary condition on the TWA plane.
问:“请问机长和空姐告诉我们环球航空公司飞机上的卫生情况。
How things are..."
事情怎么样了……”
A: "Would you like to smell?
A:“你想闻一下吗?
What do you think -- they don't have water.
你觉得怎么样——他们没有水。
What do you think, asking this kind of questions?"
问这种问题你觉得怎么样?”
Gerald Seymour : The spokesman for the PFLP, Bassam, thought then that there could be some sort of give-and-take of statements.
杰拉尔德·西摩:人阵发言人巴萨姆当时认为可能存在某种形式的相互交换声明。
Q: "The American girl here, can she just tell us how the passengers are?"
问:“这位美国女孩,能告诉我们乘客的情况吗?”
A: "We are very crowded and I think the women and especially the children are very restless."
答:“我们非常拥挤,我认为妇女,尤其是孩子们非常不安。”
Gerald Seymour : At that time, 1970, it would have been believed that by fog horn statements, they could convince the outside world -- beyond the boundaries of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon -- of the rightness of their cause.
杰拉尔德·西摩:在 1970 年的那个时候,人们相信通过雾号声明,他们可以让以色列、约旦、黎巴嫩之外的外界相信他们事业的正确性。
PLFP Card :"The fact that Imperialist interests are linked with the existence of Israel will make our struggle against Israel, a struggle against Imperialism.
PLFP 卡:“帝国主义利益与以色列的存在联系在一起的事实将使我们反对以色列的斗争成为反对帝国主义的斗争。
Gerald Seymour : This today would seem to show a quite stunning naivety.
杰拉尔德·西摩:今天看来,这似乎表现出了相当惊人的天真。
It would seem to show almost a childlike innocence.
它似乎表现出一种近乎孩子般的天真。
Walter Cronkite (archival) : Well, here is the situation on that airstrip in the Jordanian desert thirty miles from Amman.
沃尔特·克朗凯特(档案):嗯,这是距安曼三十英里的约旦沙漠飞机跑道上的情况。
Arab guerrillas hold as captives some 300 nationals from the United States, Britain, West Germany, Switzerland, Israel and even now from some Arab lands.
阿拉伯游击队俘虏了大约 300 名来自美国、英国、西德、瑞士、以色列,甚至现在还来自一些阿拉伯国家的国民。
Talcott Seelye : It was an extremely stark moment.
Talcott Seelye:那是一个极其严峻的时刻。
It was something that caught us completely unaware.
这是我们完全没有意识到的事情。
We never thought that would happen, and it was the first time it had happened.
我们从没想过会发生这样的事,而且这是第一次发生。
Narrator : The White House faced a dual crisis: a hostage situation with hundreds of American lives in danger and a pro-American government, Jordan, at the point of collapse.
旁白:白宫面临双重危机:数百名美国人的人质危机,以及亲美政府约旦的崩溃。
William Quandt : The PFLP knew on some level that King Hussein could not remain a king while having his country basically occupied by these armed and independent actors.
威廉·匡特:人阵在某种程度上知道,当侯赛因国王的国家基本上被这些武装和独立行为体占领时,他就无法继续担任国王。
So when they acted this way, they knew that it would bring about some kind of confrontation with King Hussein.
所以当他们这样做的时候,他们知道这会带来与侯赛因国王的某种对抗。
Marvin Kalb : If the Palestinian extremists were to take control of a country like Jordan, how does that tip the balance?
马文·卡尔布:如果巴勒斯坦极端分子控制了像约旦这样的国家,这会如何打破平衡?
The Soviet Union had a very close relationship then with the Syrian regime and with the Egyptian regime.
当时苏联与叙利亚政权和埃及政权关系非常密切。
This was the kind of crisis that evoked, in Kissinger's mind, many historical parallels.
在基辛格看来,这种危机引发了许多历史相似之处。
Just as pre-World War I, a shot fired in Sarajevo could trigger a World War.
就像第一次世界大战前一样,萨拉热窝的一枪就可能引发世界大战。
In Kissinger's mind, a shot fired in Amman, Jordan or Jerusalem, likewise could trigger a World War.
在基辛格看来,在安曼、约旦或耶路撒冷开枪同样可能引发世界大战。
John Sheehan, CBC Reporter (archival) : The 305 hostages were told that they would be killed if the governments of Great Britain, Switzerland , West Germany and Israel refuse to release Palestinian prisoners.
约翰·希恩(John Sheehan),CBC记者(档案):305名人质被告知,如果英国、瑞士、西德和以色列政府拒绝释放巴勒斯坦囚犯,他们将被杀害。
Narrator :The increasing friction in Jordan between the Army and Palestinian guerrillas was evident at Revolution Airport.
旁白:约旦陆军和巴勒斯坦游击队之间的摩擦不断加剧,这一点在革命机场就很明显。
Palestinian militants guarding the planes were themselves surrounded by Jordanian troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers.
守卫飞机的巴勒斯坦武装分子本身也被约旦军队、坦克和装甲运兵车包围。
It was a tense and unpredictable standoff.
这是一场紧张且难以预测的对峙。
Abu Samir : The Jordanian general came and assessed the situation.
阿布·萨米尔:约旦将军来评估局势。
We negotiated with him.
我们和他谈判。
We told him you should take your troops a mile back and we will free the women and children.
我们告诉他,你应该把你的部队撤退一英里,我们会释放妇女和儿童。
CBS Reporter : The Jordanian Chief of Staff has been negotiating with the Commandos.
哥伦比亚广播公司记者:约旦参谋长一直在与突击队进行谈判。
He succeeded in getting them to release the women and children...
他成功地让他们释放了妇女和儿童......
Rivke Berkowitz, Passenger : They said that they wanted all the women and children off the plane, and I said to my husband, "I'm not going." I said, "I want us to stay together." And he said, "You have to go.
Rivke Berkowitz,乘客:他们说他们希望所有妇女和儿童都离开飞机,我对我丈夫说,“我不会去。”我说:“我希望我们能在一起。”他说:“你必须走。
Whatever is going to happen it will be a lot easier if I know that you and Talia are safe."
无论发生什么,如果我知道你和塔莉亚都安全的话,事情就会容易多了。”
As we leave they ask our names, and they ask our religion.
当我们离开时,他们问我们的名字,并询问我们的宗教信仰。
I just said I was Jewish, because all my life I had grown up in the shadow of the Holocaust, and I always thought that one day my turn was going to come.
我只是说我是犹太人,因为我一生都是在大屠杀的阴影下长大的,我一直以为有一天会轮到我。
And I thought, this is my turn, so I didn't think twice about it.
我想,轮到我了,所以我没有多想。
But the girl who was following me said to them, "but what do you want to know?" and he said, "Ah, Jewish?" And she said, "No, I am Protestant." And I don't think they saw us as a group of people who were Americans and related to each other as Americans.
但跟着我的女孩对他们说:“但是你们想知道什么?”他说:“啊,犹太人?”她说:“不,我是新教徒。”我不认为他们将我们视为一群美国人,也没有将我们视为美国人。
I didn't realize at the time, that what they were doing was they were dividing us up.
当时我没有意识到,他们所做的就是分裂我们。
Bassam Abu Sharif (in desert press conference)
巴萨姆·阿布·谢里夫(沙漠新闻发布会)
Q: "Why are you keeping the Jewish women and children?"
问:“你们为什么要留下犹太妇女和儿童?”
A: "They are not kept because they are Jewish.
答:“他们被保留并不是因为他们是犹太人。
They are kept just for interrogation, the reason I mentioned: the dual citizenship -- Israel and the United States of America."
他们被拘留只是为了审讯,我提到的原因是:双重国籍——以色列和美利坚合众国。”
Barbara Mensch, Passenger : The two friends that I was with -- one was Jewish, and my oldest friend Nancy, who was not Jewish -- when they separated us...
芭芭拉·门施(Barbara Mensch),乘客:和我在一起的两个朋友——一个是犹太人,还有我最老的朋友南希,她不是犹太人——当他们把我们分开时……
you know, it was the first time in my life that I had been separated, that I had been identified as Jewish, and something different happened to me...
你知道,这是我一生中第一次被分开,第一次被认定为犹太人,而一些不同的事情发生在我身上......
that my treatment was different because I was Jewish.
因为我是犹太人,所以我的待遇有所不同。
William B.
威廉·B.
Quandt : The Palestinians tried to make an argument, especially the leftists, that they were not anti-Semitic, but that they were anti-Zionist.
匡特:巴勒斯坦人,尤其是左翼分子,试图证明他们不是反犹太主义者,而是反犹太复国主义者。
PFLP postcard: (A Lenin quote) "The idea of a Jewish Nation is an erroneous Zionist idea and reactionary in essence."
人阵明信片:(引用列宁的话)“犹太民族的观念是错误的犹太复国主义观念,本质上是反动的。”
William B.
威廉·B.
Quandt : They did not go around asking people about their political views; they asked them about what their religion was.
匡特:他们并没有到处询问人们的政治观点;他们只是向人们询问他们的政治观点。他们询问他们的宗教信仰是什么。
So, it is not a smart thing to do if you are trying to combat the common view that you were somehow focusing on people as Jews or non-Jews, rather than Zionists and non-Zionists.
因此,如果你试图与这样一种普遍观点作斗争,即你以某种方式关注犹太人或非犹太人,而不是犹太复国主义者和非犹太复国主义者,那么这不是一件明智的事情。
Rivke Berkowitz : We were still standing there and when they finished loading, they told us to go back on the plane.
Rivke Berkowitz:我们还站在那里,当他们完成装载时,他们告诉我们回到飞机上。
So we got on the plane, and I went to my husband and I said, "Well, now at least whatever we have to face, we'll face it together."
所以我们上了飞机,我去找我丈夫说:“好吧,现在至少无论我们要面对什么,我们都会一起面对。”
Gerald Seymour : The light was going down, and that sort of sudden drift towards the dusk that you have in that part...
杰拉尔德·西摩:光线正在暗下来,突然走向黄昏,就像那部分一样……
And we would have needed to get back to Amman -- all the television crews, all the newspapermen who had to file.
我们需要回到安曼——所有电视台工作人员、所有必须提交文件的新闻工作者。
And you almost have a feeling of disgust and shame as a reporter, that you're going back to your air-conditioned hotel, the kitchen's on the tap, and the bar is open waiting for you.
作为一名记者,你几乎会有一种厌恶和羞耻的感觉,因为你要回到有空调的酒店,厨房的水龙头开着,酒吧也开着等着你。
And you are leaving people behind, who are in, you know, in a bad and unpleasant and frightening situation.
你把人们抛在了后面,你知道,他们正处于糟糕、不愉快和可怕的境地。
Rivke Berkowitz : The electricity is turned off in the plane, and they hang a lantern in the middle of the plane, which is our one source of light.
Rivke Berkowitz:飞机上断电了,他们在飞机中间挂了一盏灯笼,这是我们的唯一光源。
Some of the terrorists came on the plane and woke up one of the flight attendants, and said we're going to call some names of people that we want to interview.
一些恐怖分子登上飞机并叫醒了一名空乘人员,并说我们要叫出一些我们想要采访的人的名字。
And I knew that they were going to say out names.
我知道他们会说出名字。
I don't know how I knew...
我不知道我是怎么知道的...
I just, I was just waiting for it -- to hear Berkowitz -- and the first name was Berkowitz.
我只是,我只是在等待——听到伯科维茨的声音——第一个名字是伯科维茨。
And I woke up my husband and I said to him, "you better put on your shoes.
我叫醒了我的丈夫,对他说:“你最好穿上鞋子。
I think they are taking you off the plane."
我认为他们要把你带下飞机。”
Rudi Swinkels : The women -- the wives -- are sitting there, and screaming, you know, because: "Oh my god, I'm never going to see my husband again." You know, and they were interrogated and taken off the airplane after that.
鲁迪·斯温克斯:女人——妻子们——坐在那里尖叫,你知道,因为:“天哪,我再也见不到我的丈夫了。”你知道,之后他们被审问并被带下飞机。
Q: What did you feel when they were taking the men off the plane?
问:当他们把这些人带下飞机时,你有什么感觉?
A: I thought I was never going to see them again.
A:我以为我再也见不到他们了。
They're going to kill them.
他们要杀了他们。
Narrator : PFLP gunmen took Jerry Berkowitz, three U.S. government employees and two rabbis to a hideout 100 miles away, in case Israel attempted a rescue operation at Revolution Airport.
旁白:人阵枪手将杰里·伯科维茨、三名美国政府雇员和两名拉比带到 100 英里外的藏身之处,以防以色列试图在革命机场开展救援行动。
Rivke Berkowitz : I sat with the wives of those men who were taken with my husband, and they said, "Oh, they'll be back shortly." And we sat all night, and we waited for them to come back, and they didn't come back.
Rivke Berkowitz:我和那些和我丈夫一起被带走的人的妻子坐在一起,他们说,“哦,他们很快就会回来。”我们坐了一整晚,等他们回来,但他们没有回来。
Dan Rather (archival) : The White House is showing signs of edginess and grave concern.
丹·拉瑟(档案):白宫表现出急躁和严重关切的迹象。
For the first 36 hours, the White House publicly all but ignored the hijackings in comment and action.
在最初的 36 小时内,白宫在评论和行动中几乎完全忽视了劫机事件。
The White House is doing its best not to convey any impression of panic.
白宫正在尽力不给人留下任何恐慌的印象。
Harold Saunders, National Security Council, 1961- : The question really was: what could you do with a couple of airplanes out in the desert and no American military presence nearby?
哈罗德·桑德斯 (Harold Saunders),国家安全委员会,1961 年-:真正的问题是:如果附近没有美军存在,只有几架飞机在沙漠中,你能做什么?
All these crises were frustrating because you did not know what to do exactly about them.
所有这些危机都令人沮丧,因为你不知道该如何应对。
Dan Rather (archival) : Tonight, President Nixon called a meeting of his top advisers.
丹·拉瑟(档案):今晚,尼克松总统召开了他的高级顾问会议。
But indications of urgency are beginning to pile up in a lot of little ways, including the suddenness in which tonight's Presidential meeting was announced.
但紧迫性的迹象开始在很多小方面堆积起来,包括突然宣布今晚的总统会议。
Narrator : After the meeting, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird received a phone call from the president.
旁白:会议结束后,国防部长梅尔文·莱尔德接到了总统的电话。
Nixon, Laird recalled, wanted to bomb the PFLP forces and facilities near Revolution Airport.
莱尔德回忆说,尼克松想要轰炸革命机场附近的人阵部队和设施。
Harold Saunders : President Nixon had a way of...
哈罗德·桑德斯:尼克松总统有办法……
on the spur of the moment, suggesting strong actions, that maybe, on second thought, even he would not have followed through on.
一时冲动,建议采取强有力的行动,但转念一想,也许连他也不会坚持到底。
And his senior staff somehow had to deal with those instructions.
他的高级幕僚不得不以某种方式处理这些指示。
In this case, I think Melvin Laird found that the weather was not good or something and that was the end of the suggestion for bombing.
在这种情况下,我认为梅尔文·莱尔德发现天气不好或者什么的,这就是轰炸建议的结束。
Years later, Secretary Laird would admit that the weather was just an excuse.
多年后,莱尔德国务卿承认天气只是一个借口。
Given America's involvement in Vietnam, he did not want to drag the nation into a new military adventure.
鉴于美国对越南的介入,他不想让这个国家陷入新的军事冒险。
Narrator : Back at the desert airstrip, the clock was ticking.
旁白:回到沙漠机场,时间已经过去了。
In a little more than 24 hours, the PFLP deadline would expire.
再过 24 小时多一点,PFLP 的最后期限就到期了。
Q:(over Hostages) Bassam, don't you agree that you are the one who began threatening innocent civilians?
问:(关于人质)巴萨姆,你不同意你是开始威胁无辜平民的人吗?
What is the difference between then and what is happening now?
那时和现在发生的事情有什么区别?
A: Yes, I told you.
答:是的,我告诉过你了。
It was a violent act.
这是一种暴力行为。
But there were some conditions.
但有一些条件。
Not to hurt any civilian hostages, but to keep them only for exchange.
不是为了伤害任何平民人质,而是为了交换而保留他们。
We were very careful.
我们非常小心。
It was possible that Israel would have attacked.
以色列有可能发动袭击。
Then it would have been Israel who would have killed them -- not us.
那么杀死他们的将是以色列——而不是我们。
Ali Ghandour, Jordanian Gov't.
阿里·甘杜尔,约旦政府
Negotiator : I talked to some responsible people in the PLO, and particularly in the Popular Front.
谈判代表:我与巴解组织,特别是人民阵线的一些负责人进行了交谈。
"Why did you do this?
“你为什么这么做?
Why do you do this?
你为什么要这样做?
I mean I don't understand it." They said they'd like to draw the world opinion -- the world attention -- towards the Palestinian cause.
我的意思是我不明白。”他们说,他们希望引起世界舆论——世界的关注——关注巴勒斯坦事业。
I said, "But the world is not your enemy.
我说:“但是世界不是你的敌人。
Those people are innocent people; they are not your enemies.
那些人都是无辜的人;他们不是你的敌人。
You are not at war with them, and the Palestinian cause is a very beautiful cause.
你们没有与他们交战,巴勒斯坦事业是一项非常美好的事业。
It is a just cause.
这是一个正义的事业。
Why do you make it looks that ugly?"
你为什么把它搞得这么难看?”
Narrator : All eyes were now on Jerusalem.
旁白:现在所有的目光都集中在耶路撒冷。
Would the Israelis join with the Americans and Europeans and negotiate with the PFLP for the release of the hostages?
以色列人会与美国人和欧洲人一起与人阵谈判释放人质吗?
Or would Prime Minister Golda Meir order a military strike in retaliation?
或者总理果尔达·梅厄会下令进行军事打击进行报复吗?
Golda Meir (archival, press conference) : The whole world is watching an atrocity unfold unlike anything we have ever seen before.
果尔达·梅厄(Golda Meir)(档案,新闻发布会):全世界都在目睹一场前所未有的暴行。
We're talking about people being held in the desert for days -- hundreds of people.
我们谈论的是数百人被关押在沙漠中数天的情况。
On the radio we hear almost idyllic news that they have some food.
我们在广播中听到几乎田园诗般的消息,说他们有一些食物。
But no water.
但没有水。
Can you imagine?
你能想象吗?
In the heat of the desert, those children don't have any water.
在炎热的沙漠里,那些孩子们没有水。
The whole world is watching this ...
全世界都在注视着这一幕……
and the best idea they've come up with is to pay bribes.
他们想出的最好主意就是行贿。
Shlomo Hillel, Israeli Minister of Police : At that time we could not even imagine negotiating with terrorists.
什洛莫·希勒尔,以色列警察部长:当时我们甚至无法想象与恐怖分子进行谈判。
We wanted to fight them, and thought that we were winning.
我们想与他们战斗,并认为我们会赢。
We knew that giving in to terrorists only encourages them.
我们知道,向恐怖分子屈服只会鼓励他们。
There is nothing easier than to capture a unprotected non-Israeli plane, hijack it to a remote place and then demand that Israel release its prisoners.
没有什么比捕获一架未受保护的非以色列飞机,将其劫持到偏远地方,然后要求以色列释放囚犯更容易的了。
ITN Reporter : The greatest anxiety among the passengers on board must lie with the Jewish hostages, now that the Israeli government have refused to exchange them for captured commandos.
ITN记者:现在以色列政府拒绝将犹太人质换成被俘的突击队员,机上乘客最担心的一定是犹太人质。
Narrator :Israel's position also made the work of the Red Cross far more complicated.
旁白:以色列的立场也让红十字会的工作变得更加复杂。
It could offer the PFLP only Leila Khaled and six of her comrades held in Europe, not the thousands of prisoners in Israel that the militants had requested.
它只能向人阵提供在欧洲关押的莱拉·哈立德和她的六名战友,而不是武装分子所要求的在以色列的数千名囚犯。
Michel Bard, Negotiator, International Red Cross : We were living under pressure from one side, threats from the other.
国际红十字会谈判代表米歇尔·巴德:我们生活在一方面的压力和另一方面的威胁之下。
We had to face danger of an outside intervention ...
我们不得不面对外部干预的危险......
ultimatums and notably the risk of an Israeli military intervention, which was for us, the ultimate risk.
最后通牒,特别是以色列军事干预的风险,这对我们来说是最终的风险。
Reporter : Can we go back to this hard question about the deadline?
记者:我们能回到这个关于截止日期的难题吗?
Are you saying that the deadline will be on four a.m., Wednesday?
您是说截止日期是星期三凌晨四点吗?
No, four a.m., on Thursday?
不,周四凌晨四点?
Four a.m.
凌晨四点
on Wednesday or Thursday?
星期三还是星期四?
Michel Bard : The tension was extraordinary.
米歇尔·巴德:气氛非常紧张。
I believe we were at the dawn of a new war ...
我相信我们正处于一场新战争的黎明......
and not only a local one.
而且不仅仅是本地的。
Walter Cronkite, CBS Special Report (archival) : Well, here is the situation as of this morning.
沃尔特·克朗凯特,哥伦比亚广播公司特别报道(档案):嗯,这是截至今天早上的情况。
The guerrillas have extended the deadline for the expiration for their Ultimatum for the release of their fellow terrorists, giving the International Red Cross an opportunity to negotiate for the release of the plane hostages.
游击队延长了释放恐怖分子同僚的最后通牒期限,为国际红十字会提供了就释放飞机人质进行谈判的机会。
Narrator : Seventy-two hours into the crisis, some 200 hostages were still imprisoned in the desert while the conditions in Amman were deteriorating rapidly.
旁白:危机发生 72 小时后,约 200 名人质仍被囚禁在沙漠中,而安曼的情况正在迅速恶化。
The 125 women and children who had been released the day before were now under siege in the Intercontinental Hotel.
前一天被释放的125名妇女儿童现在被围困在洲际酒店内。
BBC Reporter (archival, in hotel lobby) : In the hotel lobby the area is deserted of guests because there's a sniping battle going on just outside the door here, now.
BBC 记者(档案,酒店大堂):酒店大堂里没有客人,因为现在门外正在进行一场狙击战。
Narrator : As Jordan slipped into civil war, the hostages' safe haven was fast becoming a battle zone.
旁白:随着约旦陷入内战,人质的避难所很快变成了战区。
Paul Fehse : One morning we woke up -- they were bombing the hotel while we were in it, and shooting it.
Paul Fehse:一天早上我们醒来——我们在酒店时,他们正在轰炸酒店,并开枪射击。
My friend Joe and I we were at a landing between two floors reading Mad magazines and laughing -- when all of a sudden, we heard machine guns and what sounded like a bomb.
我和我的朋友乔当时正在两层楼之间的楼梯平台上一边阅读《疯狂》杂志一边大笑——突然,我们听到机关枪声和类似炸弹的声音。
One bomb landed near the hotel.
一枚炸弹落在酒店附近。
Everybody panicked and ran out of their rooms into the halls.
每个人都惊慌失措,从自己的房间跑到大厅里。
Narrator : On September 9, Jordanian troops managed to escort the 125 hostages out of the country.
旁白:9月9日,约旦军队成功护送125名人质出境。
Two hundred hostages, however, remained stranded in the desert.
然而,仍有 200 名人质被困在沙漠中。
Rivke Berkowitz : They brought us water in which they had put chlorine tablets to sterilize it.
Rivke Berkowitz:他们给我们带来了水,并在其中放入了氯片进行消毒。
So what we were drinking was similar to drinking heavily chlorinated, warm pool water.
所以我们喝的东西与饮用高度氯化的温水泳池水类似。
So we only drank it when we were very thirsty and just could not help ourselves anymore.
所以我们只有在非常口渴、无法自拔的时候才喝它。
And actually we were like that about going to the bathroom too, because it was so disgusting.
事实上我们也喜欢去洗手间,因为那太恶心了。
You didn't go in there unless you had to.
除非迫不得已,否则你不会进去。
Abu Samir : In the first two days, we did not have a problem with food.
Abu Samir:前两天,我们的食物没有问题。
But then, you know, there were hundreds of people and we could not just give them falafel that we ate ourselves.
但是,你知道,有数百人,我们不能只给他们沙拉三明治,我们自己吃。
Now I am telling the story in few words, but then it felt like a lifetime.
现在我用几句话来讲述这个故事,但后来感觉就像是一生。
It was a big responsibility, big responsibility.
这是一个很大的责任,很大的责任。
Gerald Seymour : You have this extremely complex attack plan on four airlines, but what was to happen after that -- I have the impression that they had no comprehension of it at all.
杰拉尔德·西摩:你对四家航空公司制定了极其复杂的攻击计划,但之后发生了什么 - 我的印象是他们根本不理解它。
They did not have the sophistication, nor, let it be said, did they at that time, have the ruthlessness to press home the initial attack on the airplanes by killing people.
可以说,他们当时没有那么老练,也没有残忍地通过杀人来对飞机进行最初的攻击。
They did not have that ruthlessness.
他们没有那种残忍。
Ok, they were to learn it but they hadn't got it then.
好吧,他们本来要学的,但当时他们还没有学会。
Narrator : Once it became clear that the PFLP was not going to execute hostages, its bargaining position weakened.
旁白:一旦人阵明确不会处决人质,它的讨价还价地位就被削弱了。
Then, on September 9, a PFLP sympathizer hijacked a British BOAC plane on route to London -- a fourth hijacked plane with 105 passenger and 9 crew members on board.
随后,9 月 9 日,一名人阵同情者劫持了一架飞往伦敦的英国 BOAC 飞机,这是第四架被劫持的飞机,机上有 105 名乘客和 9 名机组人员。
Barbara Mensch : Each day on the plane, they kept promising to release us.
芭芭拉·门施:每天在飞机上,他们都不断承诺会释放我们。
So I thought, Ok, I'll spend another night on the plane, and then I'll get off the next day.
所以我想,好吧,我会在飞机上再住一晚,然后第二天下飞机。
We got this everyday; we got a promise, and then they started taking us off.
我们每天都会收到这个;我们得到了承诺,然后他们开始带我们离开。
I was one of the first people that they identified to take off ...
我是他们确定的第一批起飞的人之一......
Narrator : After evacuating all of the passengers, the PFLP blew up the three planes in succession.
旁白:疏散所有乘客后,人阵连续炸毁了三架飞机。
Barbara Mensch : I was scared because we were very close to the planes; the stuff was, you know, parts of the planes were flying out at us.
Barbara Mensch:我很害怕,因为我们离飞机非常近;事情是,你知道,飞机的一部分向我们飞来。
The scary part was being surrounded by the Jordanian army because the PFLP folks had rifles with them and they pointed their guns at us.
可怕的是被约旦军队包围,因为人阵成员带着步枪,他们用枪指着我们。
Abu Samir : The Army came at that very moment.
阿布·萨米尔:军队就在那一刻到来了。
We told them, "Here are the hostages.
我们告诉他们:“这是人质。
If you touch us, either we all die or you let us go."
如果你碰我们,要么我们都死,要么你放我们走。”
Barbara Mensch : Then, you know, we got through that moment.
Barbara Mensch:然后,你知道,我们度过了那一刻。
I thought, Ok, well, now -- finally, each time it was ok, now finally -- I am going to get out of this situation.
我想,好吧,好吧,现在——终于,每次都好了,现在终于——我要摆脱这种情况了。
And then, we drove in a kind of a caravan, in a line, and all the Jeeps went into one direction and mine went in another.
然后,我们开着一种大篷车,排成一排,所有吉普车都朝一个方向行驶,而我的则朝另一个方向行驶。
Narrator : Barbara Mensch and 54 other Jewish passengers and all the male crewmembers were separated from the rest.
旁白:Barbara Mensch 和其他 54 名犹太乘客以及所有男性机组人员与其他人分开。
The remaining hostages, including the BOAC passengers, were taken to the Intercontinental Hotel.
包括英国海外航空公司乘客在内的其余人质被带到洲际酒店。
Among them was Rivke Berkowitz.
其中包括里夫克·伯科维茨(Rivke Berkowitz)。
Rivke Berkowitz (archival, news interview) :
Rivke Berkowitz(档案、新闻采访):
Q: Do you have a dual Israeli-American passport?
问:您有以色列和美国双重护照吗?
A: American passport.
答:美国护照。
We're both American-born.
我们都是美国出生的。
Bassam Abu Sharif : The PFLP also transferred the passengers who are classified as subjects under interrogation into a more cozy place.
巴萨姆·阿布·谢里夫:人阵还将被列为受审讯对象的乘客转移到一个更舒适的地方。
And they will be kept there until our prisoners are released.
他们将被留在那里,直到我们的囚犯被释放。
Barbara Mensch : The next thing I remember is being taken off the Jeep, and being told that I was no longer a hostage, but I was now a political prisoner.
芭芭拉·门施:我记得的下一件事是被带下吉普车,并被告知我不再是人质,但我现在是一名政治犯。
And that unless my country did something, I was going to be a political prisoner, for, I don't know, forever.
除非我的国家采取行动,否则我将成为一名政治犯,我不知道,永远。
I just remember crying, and I thought, "Oh my god, I am going to be here forever.
我只记得哭了,我想:“天啊,我会永远留在这里。
This is never going to end."
这永远不会结束。”
BBC Reporter : The Arab Commandos called this the Revolution Airport.
BBC 记者:阿拉伯突击队称其为革命机场。
Today, it could be called "Desolation Airport"...
今天,它可以被称为“荒凉机场”……
Gerald Seymour : You had an impression that the Palestinians had played it out by the end of that week, and therefore the blowing up of the aircraft was drawing the curtain on the show.
杰拉尔德·西摩:你的印象是,巴勒斯坦人在那周末就已经结束了,因此飞机的爆炸为这场演出拉开了帷幕。
Narrator : Two days later King Hussein ordered his army to fight its way into the Palestinian refugee camps.
旁白:两天后,侯赛因国王命令他的军队杀入巴勒斯坦难民营。
and uproot the militants.
并铲除武装分子。
The growing crisis in Jordan now occupied both the U.S. administration and the Israeli government.
约旦日益严重的危机现在困扰着美国政府和以色列政府。
The fighting also overshadowed the negotiations, making them far more complicated.
战斗也给谈判蒙上了阴影,使谈判变得更加复杂。
It took more than two weeks to extricate Barbara Mensch and the remaining hostages from the destroyed Palestinian neighborhoods in Amman.
花了两周多的时间才从安曼被摧毁的巴勒斯坦社区解救芭芭拉·门施和其余人质。
They were exchanged for Leila Khaled and six other PFLP militants.
他们被交换为莱拉·哈立德和其他六名人阵武装分子。
Several days later, Jerry Berkovitz and five other hostages hidden in a basement were finally freed.
几天后,隐藏在地下室的杰里·伯科维茨和其他五名人质终于获释。
All of the hijackers managed to escape.
所有劫机者均成功逃脱。
William Quandt : Palestinians would say, I suppose, that they did not have great choices -- that there weren't ways of getting world's attention by having peaceful demonstrations.
威廉·匡特:我想,巴勒斯坦人会说,他们没有很好的选择——没有办法通过和平示威来引起世界的关注。
Somehow they had to show how dire the situation was by inflicting pain.
他们必须以某种方式通过施加痛苦来表明情况有多么严峻。
But I also think that once you get started with this kind of militancy, it is hard to turn it off.
但我也认为,一旦你开始有了这种好斗性,就很难停止。
People began to compete for ways of doing other more dramatic blows.
人们开始竞相采取其他更具戏剧性的打击方式。
It is difficult to stop once you've developed that as one of your modus opperandi.
一旦你将其作为你的作案手法之一,就很难停下来。
Narrator : The unprecedented events of September, 1970 would soon be forgotten.
旁白:1970 年 9 月发生的史无前例的事件很快就会被遗忘。
But they would mark the end of one era and the beginning of another -- a more violent and dangerous time when terrorists would no longer hesitate to take the lives of innocent people.
但它们将标志着一个时代的结束和另一个时代的开始——一个更加暴力和危险的时代,恐怖分子将不再犹豫地夺走无辜人民的生命。
Explore the life story of Patrick Arguello, the hijacker who was a U.S. citizen.
探索美国公民帕特里克·阿奎罗的人生故事。
Find out more about the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the hijackers' perspective, the experience of being a hostage, flight crews and airport security, and journalists in a new age of global terrorism.
了解更多关于解放巴勒斯坦人民阵线、劫机者的观点、成为人质的经历、机组人员和机场保安以及全球恐怖主义新时代的记者的信息。
Although it established Israel's military dominance over neighboring Arab states, the Six Day War also gave rise to an increasing militancy among Palestinian guerrillas determined to find new battlefields.
尽管六日战争确立了以色列对邻国阿拉伯国家的军事主导地位,但它也激起了决心寻找新战场的巴勒斯坦游击队的战斗性。
Track the paths of the five hijacked airplanes on September 1970.
追踪 1970 年 9 月五架被劫持飞机的行踪。
Great Britain, which has ruled the area known as Palestine since 1920, announces that it will transfer responsibility to the United Nations in 1947.
自 1920 年以来一直统治巴勒斯坦地区的英国宣布将于 1947 年将责任移交给联合国。
Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun a process of détente in 1970, both sides were still anxious that the other not achieve any advantage in the overall balance of power
尽管美国和苏联在1970年就开始了缓和进程,但双方仍然担心对方在总体力量平衡中无法取得任何优势
Before September 6, 1970, the United States had never faced terrorism on a global scale.
1970年9月6日之前,美国从未在全球范围内遭遇过恐怖主义。