Warren King of the New York Daily News
Last March, a quiet, informal party for the diplomatic corps at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum was shattered by the sudden appearance of two cars full of Palestinian guerrillas firing machine guns. Members of the terrorist Black September, they selected five hostages, holed up in the embassy, and demanded the release of Robert Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan, 17 Palestinians imprisoned in Jordan for plotting against King Hussein, two person sympathetic to Black September imprisoned in West Germany, and all female Palestinians in Israeli jails.
When these demands were not immediately met, three hostages, including two U.S. Foreign Service officers and a Belgian diplomat, were shot and killed. Several days later, the besieged terrorists finally surrendered to the Sudanese.
“It was an atrocious, outrageous crime,” said Warren King. And so, “motivated by events,” he drew his cartoon, “Let the Punishment…” Said King: “The idea behind the cartoon was to urge Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry and the world to give the Black September guerrillas the severest penalty, to suggest that these terrorists be shown no mercy.”
King submits his cartoon ideas to the editor at Daily News story conferences and draws his cartoons on “what is the hottest thing” in the news each day. Sometimes there are editorials accompanying the cartoons; sometimes they stand alone. His style is strong, with heavy black lines, his point of view somewhat mordant. He has won an OPC citation for his work in 1968, and The Society of Silurians Award several times.
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Robert Graysmith of the San Francisco Chronicle