WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 19 NOVEMBER 1980[SANITIZED] - 1980/11/19

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06627402
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: November 19, 1980

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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date: 12 November 1980
Place: Argentina,
Buenos Aires
Urugua):an Plane Hijacked Over
Argentina
An armed hijacker commandeered a
Uruguayan jetliner on a flight
between Colonia, Uruguay, and
Buenos Aires. He held the crew
and two passengers hostage after
having released' 37 other passen-
gers unharmed. The Uruguayan
demanded to be flown to Cuba,
Algeria, Mexico, Nicaragua
Libya.. One woman hostage was
wounded during the 18-hour ordeal;
however, the others were released
unharmed, and the hijacker surren-
dered to Argentine authorities.
He was armed with a small caliber
pistol and what he claimed was a
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