off course. this is separate from the information oon the debris. the flight who malaysia officials climb were not at fault. that does it for us. if cnn original this is happening now, if you can possibly believe that. >> the terrorists are saying they'll blow up the school, killing all the children inside. >> the german police have been waging a relentless war against the terrorists, capturing some, killing some. >> the british army are the terrorists. >> no one, even the most powerful, has immunity from these urban guerillas. >> there are 298 people held hostage. >> those people, they have good ideals, they're just going about them the wrong way. >> we are ready to go on into martyrdom. >> the communique ended with the appeal, revolutionaries of the world, unite.

♪ ♪ terrorist attacks where hostages were taken have become increasingly common. >> there have been bombings, shootings, and strikes in northern ireland. >> guerillas shot at a school bus near the lebanese border.

>> the 1970s saw the development of the terrorist repertoire. >> gangs of young people, products of the riotous 1960s prefer terror. kidnapping, bombing, arson, machine guns, death and destruction. >> it was a global thing. in the '70s, those who wanted change faster than it was going to come resorted to violence. >> japan has had its first plane hijacking. >> the chronicle of terrorism which took it as far as athens, greece. >> most americans thought of terrorism as a problem that happens a world or half a world away. throughout the 1970s, terrorism began to hit home. >> an elegant townhouse in new york's greenwich village was destroyed by a series of dynamite explosions. >> authorities first assumed an accidental detonation in a gas line had been responsible. except the blast had been too powerful, destroying the $100,000 house and badly

damaging the two neighboring homes, one belonging to actor dustin hoffman. as firemen picked their way through the rubble, they found the dynamite and sticks to and materials to make a bomb. >> three bodies were found in the rubble. >> the new york cell of the weather underground were beginning to build bombs that were to be placed that night at an officer's dance at ft. dix, new jersey. however, something went badly and three ended up dead. >> the daughter of the building's owner and another girl fled right after the blast. >> i just went into survival mode. both to get out of the house and then to get away from the police. at that point, i was a combatant. >> the student protesters of the '60s have turned into more serious revolutionaries, using far more lethal weapons. >> the '60s, we were all about changing hearts and minds. the '70s was more just about expressing anger.

international politics and domestic politics seemed to be decided by violence. and violence only begets violence. >> from the underground, that radical left wing group, the weathermen promises more attacks on the establishment around the entire country, starting next week. the medium for this message was a tape recording, reputedly by the fugitive weather man leader, bernadine dorn. >> sisters and brothers, we are not just attacking targets, we are bringing the giant to their knees. >> guard your children, guard your doors. >> at one minute before 1:00 this morning, the switchboard at the capitol received a phone call. a man's voice said a bomb would go off in the building in half an hour. at 1:30 in the morning, it did. credit for the bombing was claimed by the weather underground. >> in 1971, it appears that weather is really aiming even higher.

and at that point, their idea was fewer bombs, higher profile targets. >> weather underground, bomb the capitol to bring joy, to bring joy to america. to bring a smile and a wink to all those who hate the american government. >> when the police killed young black people, we bombed the police headquarters. when washington escalated the war into cambodia, we bombed the capitol. >> a bomb exploded early this morning in the pentagon. >> it was trying to exact a small price for these policy decisions that were so unjust. >> much of the pentagon is a public area, with visitors and tourists roaming through the halls, but security was tighter today than yesterday. >> the '70s is a first great era of mass air travel. at this time, there was virtually no security at airports. you could literally walk through the terminal, sometimes even on to the plane, without anyone

checking your bags or your person. >> one of the reasons for the rise of contemporary international terrorism was the development of modern jet air transportation. these were nationally labeled containers of potential hostages at 35,000 feet. >> good evening. the middle east conflict boiled over today, with four airplane hijackings, including one that was aborted at london's heathrow airport. >> today, palestinian commandos took over a british airliner, the fourth successful hijacking in as many days. the jetliner was forced to land at the jordanian desert airfield, already occupied by two other big planes, twa and a swiss airline. >> now there are 298 people held hostage on a bleak, hot, dusty airstrip out in the desert, and they are surrounded by arabs who say they will kill them all if

there's any attempt at rescue. >> the popular hunt for the liberation of palestine, the pflp, proudly claimed credit for the coordinated action. >> the arabs, not just palestinians, look at israel as an occupying force. it's occupying arab land. and they don't believe that israel should be there. that's the basis of the conflict. >> there is a group from pflp on >> there is a group from pflp on every plane, to explain or problem, the palestinian problem, and to justify the way we are doing things to convince the world. >> to the palestinians, they thought they had to choice to turn to violence, because no one's listening to them. >> the american girl here, can she tell us how the passengers are? >> we're very crowded. and i think the women and especially the children are very restless. >> the terrorists certainly used the media. this was an event that was maxized for its global attention. and it provided an opportunity

to really illuminate the terrorist cause. >> rolling? >> let the palestinians say that the attack on the world has so much pity on for these people in the desert when for so many years they had no pity for our 2.5 million in the desert. >> the hijackers have placed dynamite aboard the planes and a red cross official said today the planes can now be blown up at the push of a button. >> arab guerillas today blew up three jets worth $25 million. all the passengers had been taken off before the dynamiting, some at the last moment. >> the black clouds could be seen for miles. and a new stage in the darkening political situation has begun. >> they don't call it terrorism. we call it terrorism. they call it national resistance. for us, it was clear the palestinian problem was not going away.

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consider to be terroristic. and they used that violence to put pressure on the brush and bring about an independent southern country free from british rule. >> this was a sunday the people of northern island will not forget. it all started when catholics organized a demonstration to protest the continued internment of suspected terrorists. the demonstration, as all demonstrations, was banned we the government. >> it was intended to be a protest, which was not about using violence, but when some of the marchers stopped and threw stones at the soldier, it led to a dramatic and awful overreaction. [ gunfire ] >> at least 13 people, civilians, were killed, shot to death by british soldiers. >> bloody sunday was the breaking point, where from then

on, it was a war between the british army and the ira. >> the british army are the terrorists. they introduced a terrorist situation, not us. >> the army will stay in northern ireland, as long as any faction seeks to terrorize or intimidate ordinary people. >> there was bad trouble in belfast, northern ireland today, and the only word to describe it is ghastly. the irish republican army set off more than 20 explosions for an hour and a half, creating a scene of bloody carnage without parallel with a long history of northern irish violence. 13 people are known dead, more than 120 injured. >> that day became known as bloody friday. it was part of their campaign to try to undermine british rule in northern ireland and to make northern ireland effectively ungovernable. >> no warnings were given, and the targets seem to have been chosen precisely because they

would be crowded with people at that time of day. >> what they managed to do was make the percussive regularity of bombs going off the norm in northern ireland during the 1970s. >> what do you think will happen? >> i think they'll just keep bombing going on. >> it's got to end some time. >> aye, some time, but i don't know when, nobody knows. >> i'm jim mckay, speaking to you live at this moment from abc headquarters, just outside the olympic village in munich, west germany. the olympics of serenity have become the one thing the germans didn't want them to be. the olympics of terror. >> i was in my bed at the hotel and the phone rang and they

said, you better get in here. some terrorists have taken over the apartments of the israeli team. and i said, they did what? >> at about 5:00 this morning, before dawn, arab guerillas believed now to be five in number, got over the fence into the headquarters of the israeli team. >> this was the first olympics that was going to have unprecedented live television coverage. >> this is happening now, if you can possibly believe that. arab guerillas are still holding inside the rooms of the israeli olympic team nine people, one of them believed dead. this is a live picture you're looking at right now. there is the head of one of the guerillas. >> part of terrorism is theater. munich was so shocking because, because we televised it. >> the terrorists have now tossed a paper out of a window of the israeli quarters. it bore the title, communique, and lists five points of their ultimatum. >> the first purpose was to seize the israeli athletes as hostages and then to barter them for the release of imprisoned palestinians.

but the wider, more strategic purpose was to shower unprecedented attention on the palestinian cause. >> it does appear to be confirmed, though anything confirmed today is difficult, that these guerillas are from the very extreme left-wing group called black september. >> the communique ended with the appeal, revolutionaries of the world unite. >> black september actually came out of fattah. fattah was yasser arafat. he had been involved in the palestinian cause since the 1960s. >> arafat thought he was the leader of the palestinians, and he was, in effect. he couldn't control all of them, but in as much as they had an elected representative, it was yassar arafat. >> more than five minutes past the deadline, and the arab guerillas said they would execute their hostages. it appears that the conference still on. >> an estimated 900 million people that had tuned in to watch the olympic games around

the world were now transfixed, watching this grisly terrorist drama play out in front of them. >> the israeli hostages and the arab commanders who have held them hostage for this entire day has now left to a makeshift helicopter pad at the back of the olympic village. >> the israelis wanted to come in and try to rescue them and the germans said no. you know, when a bad number comes up, it comes up very bad. >> we find this drama has not ended. >> the german police were sent up at the nearby air base to neutralize the terrorists and thereby rescue the hostages. >> the latest word we get from the airport is that, quote, all hell's broken loose out there. that there is still shooting going on. there is the report of a burning helicopter. >> police forces had no training in this area. they didn't expect people who were heavily armed, that were willing to sacrifice their lives for a cause.

>> they have now said that there were 11 hostages. two were killed in their rooms this morning -- yesterday morning. nine were killed at the airport tonight. they're all gone. >> this stunned the world. hundreds of millions were appalled by this event and it galvanized the number of nations to begin to take the problem of terrorism more seriously. >> a lot of study and hard thought has to be given to how we got into a situation in which tiny bands of ruthless terrorists can disrupt whole nations. it's going to be unpleasant, but civilized people are going to have to accept much more police security action and put up much tougher resistance, israeli like, until the fashion dies out or is discredited.

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a woman and two armed men dragged, threw patricia down the stairs, threw her into the trunk of a car and drove off. >> just as apartment officials suspect the kidnapping may be part of a nationwide campaign for terrorism. >> it had been three days of false alarms until news came this this radio station had received what looks to be the first real message from the kidnappers. >> the overwhelming irony of the patty hearst kidnapping is that the most marginal of groups macs manages to pull off what is after watergate the biggest media spectacle of the decade. >> the kidnappers are members of a terrorist group that calls themselves the symbionese liberation army. >> it calls on them to unite into a fighting force. with the demands of the sla, death to the fascist insect that preys on the life of the people. >> we love you, patty. and we're all praying for you. i know those people. they had good ideals.

they're just going about them the wrong way. >> initially, patti's kidnapping progresses exactly like you would expect. but then things start to get seriously weird. >> patty hearst thinks she has now tanya x, the newest recruit from the symbionese liberation army. >> i've changed and i can never go back to the life i led before. >> at least, initially, there's widespread skepticism that patty hearst would join this group. it wasn't until she actually showed up in the middle of an sla bank robbery with a machine gun that suddenly all the country, all the world realized that this heiress was now part of an underground terrorist group. >> she held that weapon like she would use it? >> yes, absolutely. i thought she would. any minute. >> people really didn't understand at this time the hostage reaction, the term

stockholm syndrome hadn't yet become current. >> it was a fascinating case, in stockholm, last year, you recall it, there was a bank robbery in stockholm. one of the women who was held hostage is waiting for the robber to get out of jail to marry him. >> what?! >> just this traumatic experience in which the individual is reduced to total helplessness and begins to identify in a human sense with the captor. >> good evening. patty hearst has been taken into custody. the fbi says patty hearst was picked up today in san francisco. the hearst newspaper heiress has been missing for 19 months. >> by the time patty is finally apprehended, it's almost anticlimactic. patti's famous line when she's taken to the courthouse and asked her occupation, she replies, you are began guerilla. >> miss hearst was brought into

a group of young people who saw themselves as political idealists. their story seems to say something about the futility of terrorism as a short cut for persuasion. somehow the message doesn't seem to be reaching the weather underground or northern ireland or the middle east. >> good evening. for the second time in a month, arab terrorists have staged a bloody attack inside israel. >> it happened in a small settlement called ma 'oalt, five miles from the border of lebanon. it began when the terrorists seized the high school. >> in the aftermath of the munich olympic attack, government finally realized that terrorism was evolving and becoming worse and therefore they had to confront the terrorists, head-on. >> the terrorists are saying that unless their demands are met, they'll blow up the school, killing themselves and all the children inside. as they negotiate it, a special israeli anti-terrorist unit moves alongside the school. >> ma'alt was a exemplar of counterterrorism's evolution.

the israeli's attempt to break the siege, unfortunately, was an unsuccessful operation. >> 30 dead, nearly all of them high school children, while the number of injured stands now at 87. >> sometimes, the results were, unfortunately, tragic. but at least they were confronting the terrorists. at least they were making terrorists understand that they wouldn't have an open field to carry out their operations. >> were the israelis right to storm the school where the palestinian terrorists held the children hostage? and should there be equal condemnation of the slaughter in lebanon, caused by israeli action? the latest reprisal there, 50 lebanese are reported killed. >> yassar arafat continued his trip from egypt to new york

today in great secrecy as he prepared to talk for the palestinian liberation organization before the united nations tomorrow. >> we have people who have been trained and who are out now, who intend to make sure that arafat and his lieutenants do not leave this country alive. >> a united states army helicopter brought yasser arafat to the united nations, flying him in from the airport because of threats against his life. >> arafat's coming to the u.n. was huge, because he was a terrorist. i mean, he was behind munich. so, for somebody that would kidnap and murder israeli athletes, coming to the u.n., it was a surprise to us. >> to many people in that room, he was a terrorist, but to an equal number of people, he was a freedom fighter. >> in the 1970s, this kind of

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in the united states, terrorism takes the form of bombings. the fbi records more than a thousand terrorist bombings every year. >> it is just startling how widespread bombings, especially these types of protest bombings, were in the 1970s. they happened by the hundreds. >> the weather underground put bombs in the state department and in the military induction center in oakland, california. >> it was not to me a weapon that you use to kill people. it was something you use to disrupt things. somebody called them exploding press releases. >> both the washington and oakland bombs were set to protest against american involvement in indochina. >> the problem with lots of little bombs is the first bomb gets page one news. when you're up to the 30th bomb, it's on page six. >> a bomb exploded today at los angeles international airport. >> some groups said, only by being more ruthless can we achieve our goals.

>> at least two people were killed and more than 30 injured. >> in lower manhattan, an explosion this afternoon left at least three dead. >> the explosion took 11 lives in the baggage claim area. >> terrorists felt they had to innovate, either in the direction of higher profile targets, or higher body counts. >> in birmingham, england, several bombs blew up in the center of the city tonight. at least 17 people are dead. at least 70 more are injured. >> the first bomb went off in a crowded pub near the birmingham city center. minutes later, and less than a hundred yards away, a second bomb exploded in another pub. there have been 200 people inside, police said they were still searching for bodies in the rubble. >> terrorism only works when it shocks people. the mid-1970s, the i.r.a. attempts an entirely new tactic, to bring the conflict to the british mainland. >> the british home front has itself become a battlefield in the raging guerilla war over northern ireland.

>> there have been many bombings in england in recent months, as the terrorism of northern ireland has spread. but tonight was the worst. >> the sheer audacity, it was unrivaled. arab terrorists attacking the headquarters of oil power. three men were killed and three wounded. >> there is no certainty, but there is plenty of speculation, that one of those terrorists who raided the opec meeting in vienna could be europe's most wanted fugitive, carlos sanchez martinez, also known as the jackal. >> this is the clearest news film of carlos that so far exists. that's him, breaking away, answering a call from near the plane. >> carlos the jackal, i think, had a real flair for publicity, becoming arguably the best-known terrorist of that era. >> but who is this man known to police as carlos ramirez sanchez? who was paying him? what is he after?

and how many members in his group of terror? >> carlos is thought to be a venezuelan in his late 20s. moscow trained, politically motivated and wanted by france, holland, britain, and now austria. >> he crossed frontiers, spoke spanish, russian, french, and arabic. >> this is a face for international terrorism. here's a venezuelan, working with the palestinians, allied with the with germans. he was a gun for hire in the service global revolution and that gave him a wide canvas in which to play on. >> he's supposed to have masterminded the takeover of the french embassy in the hague, exchanging the french ambassador for an imprisoned japanese red army terrorist and $300,000. >> when you speak with him, he claim only political and ideological positions, but in fact he likes money, lots.

>> carlos has also fought in the bombing of a crowded paris drugstore and a bazooka attack at an airport last january. >> carlos maintained his cover as a playboy. he had learned to use women, to seek shelter, to store weapons. >> he was a womanizer. he wanted to stay in the nicest hotels, have caviar and champagne. that was part of a romanticism of being a terrorist during that era. >> he wants to be loved, but if he's confront, he doesn't hesitate to kill. he was very violent. everybody knows that. >> when paris police moved in on carlos last july, he killed two of them and then disappeared. >> the plastic smiles on the face of this new police unit in bavaria protect the anonymity of the first squad to be specifically trained to fight terror groups. >> what happened between '72 and '76 in germany and in other parts of the world is a complete revolution of the military, in

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modern era. defined by surprise, speed, and success. but mostly surprise. >> the israelis are familiar with the airport at entene, because they built sections of it and had an active force in uganda until 1973 when yamin kicked the israelis out. >> no one thought anyone would fly from israeli to uganda to rescue the hostages. that was surprise number one. when they landed, all the commanders were wearing ugandan military uniforms and were driving the same kind of mercedes that a ugandan general would drive. >> the hijackers didn't know what was going on, and by the time they figured it out, it was too late for them. >> it took just 52 minutes from the time the first plane landed until it took off with the hostages. that was three minutes less than the rehearsal the night before. >> the rescue seemed pretty much like a modern miracle. for relatives who for days on end were unsure whether they would ever see their loved ones

again, it was a time for joy and jubilation. >> what made you think that israel could pull off an operation like this? >> the entene rescue was one of the few bits of good news we had regarding counterterrorism. it was followed a year later by the daring rescue of german passengers aboard a hijacked lufthansa aircraft. >> it was over in minutes. a blinding crash and a deafening explosion and gunfire. >> the passengers and crew were freed in a raid at somalia mogadishu airport. >> there was a sense that the pendulum was swinging away from terrorist efficacy. in other words, if you hijacked a plane, you didn't necessarily get a free run to the press conference. >> once again, we see terrorism's evolution in the sense that the terrorists themselves often have to change up their tactics if they're going to stay one step ahead of the government. >> west german industrialist hands martin schrier, a key government adviser, was kidnapped in cologne today. >> the terrorists riddled the

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[ chanting ] >> the u.s. embassy in teheran has been invaded and occupied by iranian student. the americans inside have been taken prisoner. >> i'll be honest with you, i was scared. who knows what a mob could do? >> the american hostages were blindfolded, handcuffed and

marched out on the u.s. embassy's front steps by the revolutionary students in return for their american hostages freedom. they are demanding the united states give up the deposed shah from his hospital bed in new york to stand trial before a people's court. >> amidst the revolution, america's closest ally in this region, the sha is toppled. the shah and the united states seem to be -- to the fervor captivating iranians. >> new iranian islamic republic would be stern by islaming nothing else. ayatollah khomeini replaced the shah. he gave a series of sermons that condemned the loss of iranian sovereignty. >> when khomeini large crowds gathering in support 0 in front of the embassy he made the

sdirks i'm not going to stand against this wave. i'm going to riot. >> there's been a persistent belief in many quarters here in iran that the united states government was plotting to restore the shah to power here. >> from the iranian standpoint it wasn't terrorism. they looked at the embassy as an occupying force. the embassy was with actually the agent for controlling iranian politics. >> khomeini issued a new warning withing. he said if the americans try military force to rescue the hostages, the students will kill them all and blow up the embassy. >> because the distance to teheran from the arabian sea had problems in achieving surprise in a raid to rescue the american hostages is considered unlikely. >> how much longer can you go on doing this? >> we are ready to go on until martyrdom. martyrs do not die. martyrs are not destroyed. >> so the bullets do not really

kill. >> the bullets do not kill the rights of people. >> terrorism was suddenly moving from what it was almost entirely a secular, politically ideological movement to something that is now motivated or fuelled by religious fervor. in mecca, men described as religious deviants are holding hostages in the sacred mosque. >> 15,000 pilgrims were praying at dawn when the 30 giant doors were sealed off by hundreds of members of a muslim sect. they seem to pure fie their religion from what they say is the corrupt influence of the current saudi arabia government. dozens are said to have died. >> this group of radical sunni fanatics took over, suddenly, abruptly, israel's holly site. >> they rushed troops

surroundeding the shrine. as many as 10,000 pilgrims are inside the grand mosque. fire was heard all day in mecca. >> broadcasts from ie raen ran blame the united states for the assault on the grand mosque in mecca. those broadcasts were heard in islamabad, the capital of pakistan where a mob stormed the american embassy, killed a young marine guard and trapped about 100 americans inside the embassy. >> the mob was screaming "kill the american dogs" as they stormed the u.s. embassy in islamabad. >> this is the third major event in the muslim world in the last 28 hours. in teheran this morning, millions of people are shouting death to the shah, death to carter. that is followed by the cry, god is great. >> these groups are very hard to dissay. >> it was clear the united

states was ill prepared and failed to recognize the extraordinary change that happened in the '70s. >> new year's eve and the end of the decade but not the deadline. >> in 1979 we take a deep breath and realize we are on a precipice of a new world of terrorism. >> the crisis goes beyond the embassy walls in teheran. >> rather than catching our breath, what we should have been thinking is how can this get worse? >> it sounds like the most futile observation possible but i'm going to make it anyhow. we have to find a way to stop terrorism. it is growing at a scary rate. terror is a new form of warfare. history shows that every new form of warfare, like hitler's, seems incomable at first but provokes ingenuity to find ways to overcome it. remember sky jacking seemed

impossible in this country once, we have stopped it. i don't know how terrorism can be stop ed but history is on our side. a u.s. intelligence report says the missing malaysian airliner was steered off course can. this as more debris is washing up on reunion island that may be from a passenger plane. we are covering all angles of this story this hour. from cnn world headquarters here in atlanta, i'm george howell. this is cnn newsroom. ♪ good day. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we start this hour with the with the breaking news in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. a preliminary assess by u.s. intelligence agencies suggests that someone in theoc