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...civil war and on the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), a broadly based collection of Marxist and non-Marxist leftists held together mainly by hatred for Somoza's regime. The evidence of such influence is scant, though U.S. intelligence reports indicate that since late May a Panamanian DC-6B cargo plane has operated regularly between Panama, Cuba and Costa Rica carrying newly trained rebels and a variety of weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Who Are the Sandinistas? | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...ransom as it could raise within the kidnapers' four-hour time limit -$70,000. He then persuaded the kidnapers to take the money and the dozen released prisoners and go to Mexico. Kidnapers and hostages drove together to the airport, then parted company beside the four-engine DC-6B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Do as We Say | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...havoc created by the electronic "pilot fish" that, as the North Vietnamese know by now, often precede the B-52s: EB-66 Destroyers and EA-6B Intruders, whose bulges, pods and blisters house those gadgets designed to confuse ground radar, as well as needle-nosed F-105 "wild weasels," whose special radiation-seeking missiles lock onto and streak toward active enemy radar installations. Then, after the pilot fish, came the sharks: 17 B-52s. The B-52s dropped their 30-ton bomb loads into the darkness over Haiphong from 30,000 feet. The explosions destroyed a petroleum tank farm near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Harrowing War in the Air | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...6b. Eriksonian Psychologist...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Why Do People Overeat? Several Experts Analyze | 4/17/1965 | See Source »

Venezuelan agents promptly loaded him aboard a chartered DC-6B, flew him home to a maximum-security cell in San Juan de los Morros prison, 50 miles southwest of Caracas. Though P.J. kept telling anyone who would listen that he would be killed when he got home, President Betancourt promised that he would be treated "just like any common criminal, and will be given the same rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Breaking a Tradition In Favor of Democracy | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

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