OPEC hostage crisis
- Title
- OPEC hostage crisis
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
- TX Date
- Dec 1975
- Year of production
- 1975
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- Duration
- 00:04:23
- Description
- Jon Snow reports on the end of the Austrian OPEC hostage crisis. Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, having submitted to the kidnappers’ demands, defends his actions by quoting the agreement between Austria and OPEC. Police Commissioner Edward Hockenbikler(?) is also keen to avoid an escalation of violence. The incident is compared with other recent terrorist occurrences.
- Contributors
- Jon Snow; Bruno Kreisky; Edward Hockenbikler(?)
- Keywords
- Terrorism; Hostages; OPEC; Austria; Carlos the Jackal
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