Hijack for Hess and Sirhan
NZPA-Reuter Geneva The release from jail of Adolf Hitler’s former deputy, Rudolf Hess, and Senator Robert Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, has been demanded by the hijackers of a Trans World Airline’s airliner. They took control of the Boeing airliner over the Atlantic yesterday. The aircraft has between 76 and 90 people on board. The hijackers also demanded the release of four Croatians, but it was not known where these were held. Hess, aged 84, is the sole inmate of Spandau Prison at West Berlin. The hijacked plane was isolated at the end of a runway and necessary police measures had been taken, the spokesman said. He did not elaborate. The police did not know how many hijackers there were, he said. Hess has been in prison since the end of World War 11. The Soviet Union has repeatedly refused requests from Britain, France and the United States to release him on humanitarian grounds.
Sirhan is serving a life sentence in the United States for killing Senator Kennedy at Los Angeles in 1968.
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Press, 26 August 1978, Page 1
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