Hijackers among 50 killed on Egyptair
By JENNIFER PARMELEE
Associated Press Writer
VALLETTA, Malta Egyptian
commandos stormed a hijacked
Egyptair jetliner last night and shots,
explosions and a fire during the as
sault killed as many as 50 people, a
government spokesman said.
“There are about 50 dead by bullet
or fire,” spokesman Paul Mifsud told
reporters two hours after the assault.
The wounded pilot, Capt. Hani Galal,
told a news conference that all eight
children abord the plane were among
those who perished.
Mifsud said the hijackers hurled
hand grenades at the passengers
when they realized the Boeing 737
was being stormed, and the resulting
fire destroyed the inside of the jetlin
er.
The victims “were trapped inside
and couldn’t get out,” he added.
Mifsud said there were four or five
hijackers, possibly four Palestinians
and one Syrian.
Most passengers on the plane, co
mandeered Saturday over Greece
with 97 people aboard and diverted to
Malta, were Egyptians or Greeks.
One of the three American passen
gers was killed and the other two
were wounded and thrown from the
plane by the hijackers before the
commando assault.
Malta’s state-run television said
about 80 people were on the jetliner
when the commandos attacked. It
said 28 wounded people were taken to
hospitals.
Two women, male
sexually assaulted
By K. J. MAPES
Collegian Staff Writer
A 20-year-old woman was assaulted
while walking home Saturday night,
and in another incident a woman was
harrassed by a male earlier that
evening, State College Bureau of Po
lice Services said. Also, a teenage boy
reported Saturday that he was raped
Nov. 8 by a male University student,
University Police Services said.
The 20-year-old woman was walk
ing home at 10:20 Saturday night was
assaulted and received terroristic
threats by an unidentified man at the
600 block of Prospect Avenue.
The man came out from behind
some bushes, grabbed the woman
and covered her mouth, police said,
adding that he threatened to use a
knife and ordered her to not scream.
He struck her six times and when she
told him her boyfriend was right
behind her, he again warned her not
to scream. Police added that he
forced her to the ground, straddled
her, disrobed her and ejaculated on
her stomach.
After assaulting her, the man left
and the woman ran to two males
walking by, police said. One escorted
her home, where her roomate called
the police. The other attempted to
chase the man who assaulted her,
police said. The woman was treated
and released.
The man is described as white,
between 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10
inches tall, 160 pounds, wearing a
black or blue quilted waist-length
jacket, blue jeans, black gloves, and
a ski mask pulled down to his chin.
At 9 p.m. Saturday, another woman
Awareness emphasized in final
alcohol proposals to president
By ALAN J. CRAVER
Collegian Staff Writer
The University President’s Task
Force on Alcohol’s final recommen
dations on alcohol awareness and
treatment programs represent the
need for the administration to stop
student alcohol abuse, a task force co
chairman said.
M. Lee Upcraft, division director of
counseling and health services, said
while the University must regulate
alcohol use to protect itself from
liability, the key to reducing alcohol
abuse is increased awareness of alco
hol-related problems among stu
dents.
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Mifsud said Prime Minister Carme
lo Mifsud Bonnici authorized the as
sault because “the situation was
getting out of hand.” He added that it
was totally an Egyptian operation.
Mifsdd quoted Galal, as saying the
hijack leader was “a madman” who
sang and danced each time he shot a
hostage and tossed the body from the
plane onto the tarmac.
Galal, 39, earlier told authorities by
radio that the hijackers had killed
seven people.
As the commandos stormed the
plane, Galal killed the hijack leader
with an ax, Mifsud said. Both the pilot
and the co-pilot were wounded in the
struggle.
The pilot, his head bandaged and
his jacket and white shirt spotted
with blood, told a news conference
that the hijack leader singled out
Americans and Israelis “for execu
tion.” '
It was “awful. . . . But our only
hope was the storming,” Galal said.
The assault troops “were facing first
class killers. They were desperate
and would not hestitate to blow up the
plane.”
Joel Levy, the deputy U.S. Embas
sy chief, told reporters the comman
dos attacked at 8:20 p.m. (2:20 p.m.
EST), about 24 hours after the jetlin
er was seized while en route from
Athens, Greece, to Cairo, Egypt.
He said that “at first report, it
appears all the hijackers were
killed.”
The Athens airport also was where
reported being harrassed by a male
when she was walking,south on Allen
Street onto.Prospeqt Avenue.
The man asked her what time it
was and, after she told him, the man
jumped and tried to grab her legs,
police said. The woman jumped away
and ran to a house nearby, police
said. The man is described as white in
his 40’s, 6 feet 1 inch, 160 pounds, deep
voice, acne scars, wearing a dark
blue and black tossle cap, a blue
nylon jacket, blue jeans, and brown
boots.
A teenage boy reported to Universi
ty police Saturday afternoon that a
male University student forced him
to have deviate sexual intercourse,
said Linda Schutjer, assistant Uni
versity police supervisor.
Although the incident on campus
occured Nov. 8, the boy waited until
this time to tell his parents, who then
encouraged him to tell police he was
taken to a campus location and
raped. Because the boy, who attends
a State College area school, was not
familiar with the campus buildings,
he could not determine which build
ing he was taken to, Schutjer said.
The boy told police that the man is
white, in his late teens or early twen
ties, 5 feet 10 inches, 150 pounds, light
complexion, light-blond hair parted
in the middle and feathered on the
sides, wearing faded Levi blue jeans
with a small hole in the left knee. He
is also said to have worn a hooded
white sweatshirt with long sleeves, a
white crew-necked T-shirt with short
sleeves, muddy white or grey sneak
ers with a hole in the toe of the right
shoe and white athletic socks.
Please see related story, Page 5.
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment President David Rosenblatt, co
chairman of the task force, said the
task force wanted to respond to stu
dent feedback and provide existing
treatment and awareness programs
with expanded resources to increase
their effectiveness.
Rosenblatt said student input
played an important role in forming
the alcohol awareness and education
recommendations.
Student input directly led to the
creation of two recommendations
that would require all University
freshmen to take a one-credit alcohol
education course and have the Uni-
Please see ALCOHOL, Page 4.
Collegian
The Egyptian airliner hijacked Saturday on a flight from Athens to Cairo was
forced to land on Malta. Officials at the Athens airport said the plane was seized
while flying over the Greek island of Milos and changed its course for Malta.
two armed Lebanese terrorists
boarded a Trans World Airways Boe
ing 727 on June 14 and hijacked it on
the flight from Athens to Rome with
153 people aboard. They forced it
back and forth between Beirut, Leb
anon, and Algiers, Algeria, during
which they released most of the hos
tages and killed a U.S. Navy diver in
civilian clothes.
Levy said there were three Ameri
cans aboard the Egyptair jetliner,
and one was killed. He said at least
two bodies, including that of an
Lions would Sooner play in Miami
By CHRIS LINDSLEY
Collegian Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH - Even before the
football team took the field Saturday
night in -Pittsburgh, it knew it would
be spending New Year’s Day in Mi
ami.
University President Bryce Jordan
accepted Orange Bowl President
Jack Hoehl’s invitation to play in the
Miami classic at 6:15 p.m. Saturday,
against Big Eight representative Ok
lahoma.
Oklahoma earned the right to meet
the Lions for the national
championship by defeating Nebras
ka, 27-7 Saturday in Norman, Okla.,
while seventh-ranked Oklahoma
State was losing to lowa State, 15-10.
The intersectional matchup will be
seen nationally on NBC, with cover
age beginning at 8 p.m. New Year’s
night from the Orange Bowl in Mi
ami.
Over the last couple of weeks, Penn
State Head Coach Joe Paterno had
gotten away from answering bowl
questions, saying his squad had other
teams to worry about before thinking
about post-season play.
Following the Lions 31-0 drubbing
of Pitt, however, Paterno smiled
when asked about the Orange Bowl,
seemingly waiting for that question to
be asked now that it was appropriate.
“I’m very excited,” Paterno said.
“I’m excited to go back to Miami, I’m
excited about playing a team as good
as Oklahoma for all the marbles. I
think that’s the way the champion
ought to be decided.”
Penn State is no stranger to the
Orange Bowl.
Following the 1968, 1969 and 1973
seasons, the unbeaten Lions went to
Miami, and left with perfect 12-0
Pandemonium breaks loose after Lion victory
By CELESTE McCAULEY
Collegian Staff Writer
While Nittany Lion fans in Pittsburgh celebrated
their team’s trouncing of cross-state rivals Pitt
Panthers, a little over 150 miles away pandemoni
um broke out in Happy Valley.
About 2,000 fans paraded to Beaver Stadium
around midnight and some broke into the stadium
and tore down both goalposts after watching the
top-ranked Lions on television complete their
fourth undefeated season in regular play under
Head Football Coach Joe Paterno. Later, fans
rallied on the steps of Old Main.
“We were psyched; we were on an Orange Bowl
mission,” said Anthony Ruggiero (freshman-pre
law) among a crowd of about 100 people huddling
around a portion of the north goalpost as it was
being sawed into pieces on the steps of Old Main.
“Joe Paterno made us proud tonight.”
Bonnie Wykstra (senior-computer science) said,
“Penn State is number one and the fans are
number one right with them.”
University Police Services said about 2,000 fans
converged at the intersection of Beaver Avenue
and Locust Lane gaining momentum as they
rampaged through the streets of State College en
route to the stadium. Walking by way of Shortlidge
Road Lion supporters chanted “Goalposts,”
“We’re No. 1” and “We are. . . Penn State.”
Randy Hoffman, Univeristy police officer, said
police officers of State College Bureau of Police
Services blocked off Beaver Avenue to deter cars
American, were thrown off the plane
before the assault. Several wounded
passengers, including the two other
Americans, also were tossed off and
11 women were allowed to leave be
fore the commando charge.
Levy said he did not know what
caused the explosion, but that it hap
pened after the commandos blew
open the two doors. He called that
“fairly standard procedure.”
Authorities issued a “full medical
alert” calling for all assistance and
emergency blood donations.
The Nittany Lion mascot and some Penn State majorettes let the crowd know who’s No. 1 after the Lions trounced Pitt 31
0 Saturday. The Lions will travel to the Orange Bowl New Year’s Day to battle Oklahoma for the national championship.
records, and the same thing can
happen if the Lions beat the Sooners
on New Year’s night.
For the players, they decided last
Sunday they wanted to play the high
est ranked team possible in a bowl
game, and that meant the Orange
Bowl.
But quarterback John Shaffer said
the team still had to concentrate on
Pitt, and even now that that game’s
from driving into the crowds on College Avenue.
“Right after the scoreboard clock counted down
to zero we all went running outside,” Ruggiero
said. He said on the way to the stadium fans
jumped on cars and shook Centre Line and Cam
pus Loop buses.
About 150 people broke through Beaver Stadium
Gate 16 and proceeded onto the field.
One person was observed climbing up the steps
near the scoreboard ringing the Victory Bell,
police said.
The crowd carried one of the goalposts up the
east side of the stands planning to drop it over the
side of the stadium to break it into pieces for
souvenirs, Hoffman said.
However, fearing injury, “as it got closer to the
top it looked like a few people got smart and
assisted it back onto the field,” he said.
About 400 fans left the stadium carrying a 15-foot
piece of the goalpost to Old Main, cheering and
chanting along the way.
“We couldn’t get Pitt’s goalposts down so we got
ours,” Mike Williams (junior-management) said.
On Old Main’s steps, a crowd of about 100 sang
with the student version of the Alma Mater “We
don’t know the Goddamn words.” One fan yelled,
“Let’s bring the scoreboard down so we can read
the words.”
Wykstra said it is a tradition to come to Old Main
with the goalpost.
“That’s where we can show the most school
spirit,” she said.
Williams said the Associated Press poll rated
American
shot by hijackers
By ROSE ANN ROBERTSON
Associated Press Writer
An American woman who was
wounded aboard a hijacked Egyptian
plane had been forced to kneel when
terrorists shot her in the back of the
head and threw her off the jetliner,
her family said yesterday.
Jackie Nink Pflug, apparently left
for dead by the hijackers, was one of
three Americans aboard Egyptair
Flight 648, the State Depatment said.
The hijacking ended after a bloody
assault on the plane by Egyptian
commandos that left up to 50 people
dead.
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Jackie Pflug, 30, a special educa
tion teacher in Cairo, Egypt, was
undergoing surgery in Malta last
night, her family said.
“They shot her in a kneeling posi
tion and threw her out of the airplane.
She landed on her face, broke her
nose,” Pflug’s father, Eugene Nink,
said from his home in Pasadena,
Texas.
A Nink family spokesman, Eric
Beaver, said Pflug’s hands were tied
behind her back before she was shot.
“Getting off the plane early is what
saved her before the commandos
rushed the plane,” he said.
over, he’s looking forward to some
thing more than the Orange Bowl, for
now at least.
“We’re looking forward to it,” champion, and representative John
Shaffer said. “But I think right now Ludwig said Miami again will be the
we need a week off, and that’s what a center of attention on New Year’s
lot of people are looking forward to.” night.
For the Orange Bowl representa- “We think we have a great game,”
tives, things couldn’t be much sweet- Ludwig said. “We’re excited for the
er than being the bowl that decides city of Miami, and we’re excited for
the national championship again, the Orange Bowl.”
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The wounded pilot, Capt. Hani Ga
lal, earlier pleaded with airport offi
cials by radio to cooperate with the
hijackers to save passengers’ lives.
In a tape of the coversation broadcast
by ABC News, Galal spoke of the
killing of an American woman and
said:
“He is killing her now, so, say
again, say, do something, he is killing
her now. ... He is outside shooting
her now. I am the captain, you are
wasting life, you are wasting life. He
is killing her, he has killed her al
ready.”
The other Americans were identi
fied as Scarlett Rogenkamp, 38, of
Oceanside, Calif., and Patrick Scott
Baker, 28, of White Salmon, Wash.
Paul Mifsud, a Maltese spokesman,
said one woman, probably an Ameri
can, was shot to death before the
assault and her body thrown off the
plane. Another woman was thrown
from the plane with a head wound and
left for dead, he said.
Joel Levy, the deputy U.S. Embas
sy chief in Malta, told reporters that
one of the three Americans was
killed.
Baker’s mother, Lois, said her son
feigned death after he was shot in the
head and left in a pool of blood.
In three of the last four years, the
Miami classic has played an integral
role in determining the national
the team number one only after the Cincinnati
game, but “they were No. 1 to everybody here
from the start. All the critics can eat their words
now.”
Patrick Gabor (senior-accounting) yelled,
“What’s a Sooner?” in reference to the Oklahoma
team the Lions will play in the Orange Bowl.
“A Sooner is No. 2,” Williams responded.
At the corner of Beaver Avenue and Locust Lane
fans burned an Oaklahoma football shirt to the
cheers of hundreds looking on.
Wykstra said, “I think the police were just as
excited as we were.”
But as the fervor of the crowd increased, six
University Police officers standing guard, inter
fered with the' victory revelry and ordered the
crowd to leave the area around Old Main.
Three University students were issued citations
for criminal trespassing on the stadium field, and
two were cited for criminal mischief at Old Main,
according to University police.
Ritenour Health Center reported that five stu
dents were treated for injuries and at least two
were treated for fractured legs, police said.
“When (the crowd) starts to form to a point
where the safety of people is in danger then police
can stop it,” Hoffman said. “Crowd behavior is
unpredictable especially when people have been
drinking. There may be injury from crowd stam
peding.”
Hoffman said patrolling Old Main was taking
manpower away from other duties on campus.
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