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Schoenau ultimatum
The Schoenau ultimatum was a 1973 hostage-taking of Soviet Jewish emigrants transiting Austria. Through 2015 the opening called it "a terrorist hostage-taking incident in Marchegg, Austria by the terrorist group As-Sa'iqa." Today's opening calls it "a hostage-taking incident... by the Palestinian militant group As-Sa'iqa," terror surviving 3 times in the body. A reader today learns As-Sa'iqa as a militant group and not that the article once called both the incident and the group terrorist.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “terror” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 3.
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The opening as it read in 2015
Schoenau ultimatum was a terrorist hostage-taking incident in Marchegg , Austria by the terrorist group As-Sa'iqa .1 At the time Vienna was a transit point for Russian Jews , the largest population of Jews remaining in Europe. The Schoenau ultimatum focused attention away from Egyptian and Syrian military build-up and their planned attack that would come to be known as the Yom Kippur War .
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Today
“terror” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 3. Read the current article and compare.
| 2015 | 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| hostage | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2015 and 2025.
Then
terrorist hostage-taking incident in marchegg
Now
hostage-taking incident in marchegg
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