the release of four hostages who had been seized by Arab gunmen in September. The camp had been operated since 1971 by the Jewish Agency for Immigration Agency for Immigration and Resettlement of Jews. Kreisky, an Austrian Jew who had been able to escape to Sweden shortly after Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938, defended the action as necessary because the camp's existence was a threat to Austria's national security. Afterward, Soviet Jews traveling to Israel were able to stay temporarily at an Austrian Red Cross aid station at Wollersdorf, but had to be flown to Tel Aviv within 14 hours. American serial killer Bernard Giles, known to have killed at least five girls and women, including four the previous month, attempted to claim two more victims in Florida. The two underage girls fought back, escaped his car, and were able to provide police a description of Giles and his car, and had even seen his name on a book in the vehicle. Giles was arrested the next day and later sentenced to life in prison. Kevin Mallon, one of the three Irish Republican Army convicts who had escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin on October 31, was recaptured after less than six weeks. Mallon was spotted attending a dance at a hotel ballroom in Portlaoise. December 11, 1973 (Tuesday) The Treaty of Prague was signed by the West Germany and Czechoslovakia. The two states established diplomatic relations, and declared the 1938 Munich Agreements to be null and void, acknowledging the inviolability of their common borders and abandoning all territorial claims. The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (ARBA) was created as a U.S. government agency to co-ordinate celebrations of the United States Bicentennial during the period from April 1, 1975, to July 4, 1976. The new law to fund multiple celebrations replaced the original 1966 creation of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission for a planned "Expo '76" world's fair in Philadelphia. All 10 passengers and crew were killed in the crash of a U.S. Navy R6D-1 airplane on the uninhabited Great Sitkin Island in the remote Andreanof Islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. The flight was taking service members from Elmendorf Air Force Base to Adak Island in advance of a furlough home for Christmas and crashed into the side of a mountain. Born: Mos Def (stage name for Dante Terrell Smith), American rapper and TV host; in Brooklyn,