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Norman Tebbit

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If we give in to the terrorists we will have more skyjacking, and not merely from the Arabs...Whatever happenes to these hostages—and I could easily have been one of them—if we give in even more people will be taken hostage and more lives will be laid at risk.
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On the Dawson's Field hijackings (BBC's Today programme, 1970).
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Tebbit, p. 127.

 
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