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Hijackers’ Demand
<N.Z Press Assn Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 19.
The two young American crewmen who hijacked the munitions freighter Columbia Eagle in the Gulf of Siam last Saturday forced her master at gunpoint to give them their pay before they left the ship for political asylum in Cambodia, the ship’s captain has reported, according to the New York Times News Service.
The captain also said the men—identified* as Clyde McKay and Alvin Glatkowski—had extracted additional money for “transportation.” This indicated to United States officials that they had planned subsequent travel to North Vietnam.
Earlier messages from the Columbia Eagle quoted them as having told the captain that they had seized the ship to protest against the war in Vietnam. Captain Donald Swann recounted the hijackers’ actions in a radio message on Tuesday from the Columbia Eagle to the Coast Guard. He also said that three other crewmen might have been “involved to some extent” in the capture of his ship on the high seas on the way to Thailand and her diversion to Cambodian waters.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32252, 21 March 1970, Page 8
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