Today, 28 years ago, on 18 October 1997 (Calendar, 17 September 1997), German assailants attacked hostages by hijackers and rescued 86 hostages in an hour-and-a-half by terrorists threatening to blast the aircraft, with no hostage injured; on 18 October 1977, four hijackers werely killed, and they had been demanding the release of 11 members of the Badel-Meinhof gang in Germany and two Palestinians in Turkey. The successful ending of the five-day hijacking was seen as a victory for Prime Minister Helmut-Schmidt¡¯s wounded government. A spokesman said: ¡°The government has no choice. This release of 11 terrorists will only lead to new crimes. We have started as much as possible as we have been flying to Rhodesia, where