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...were telling me--now it doesn't matter now," he said. "It really doesn't matter. I left Atlanta this morning ..." He told briskly of the bomb scare on his plane and how the pilot had announced that threats to King had generated a precautionary overnight guard for the aircraft. "And then I got into Memphis." He frowned. "And some began to say the threats--or talk about the threats--that were out, what would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers. Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days...
...later he stopped it. That man faced reality. I'm convinced that his visit to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, that journey, in November '78, was a shock to him. He expected three third-world cities; he saw three second-world cities, better than Shanghai or Beijing. As his aircraft door closed, I turned around to my colleagues, I said, [his aides] are getting a shellacking. They gave him the wrong brief. Within weeks, the People's Daily switched lines, that Singapore is no longer a running dog of the Americans, it's a very nice city, a garden city...
...Within the next five to ten minutes, several Miami-Dade police officers converged on the plane. When the flight attendants told them she was the victim's wife, they escorted her off the aircraft, he says...
...officers followed Alpizar and killed him when he disobeyed orders to lie down and they believed him to be reaching into his bag. "The shooting occurred in the immediate vicinity of the front door of the aircraft, on the aircraft," Bauer says. "I don't think he had taken a seat." After the incident airport authorities inspected luggage on the plane and blew up at least two bags. No bomb was found...
...distinguishing between abuse - which it denies - and holding ?ghost? detainees in secret prisons abroad, which it has not denied, but only refused to confirm on the record or give details. Indeed, U.S. officials hint that at least some foreign officials have been in the know on movements of CIA aircraft, secret holding facilities or other operations, those governments may be getting a message that they'd better not protest too much. But its not clear whether Rice will explicitly make that point in her private meetings. She probably doesn't need...