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...writing of Sinclair Lewis, and the characters are not sufficiently human or interesting enough to survive without the glamorous names. There's nothing inherently "dramatic" in Strangers except that the two leading characters talk a lot and the rapid flow of scenes--her apartment, to a cafe, an airfield, Moscow, Nazi Germany--evoke a diluted Julia...
...survivors of the landing strip massacre had no way of knowing that the ultimate white night?a ghastly and irrevocable test of loyalty?had already taken place back in the Jonestown commune. Equally unaware of the murders at the airfield, Lawyers Lane and Garry witnessed the ominous signs of the impending disaster. Recalled Garry: "When 14 of his people decided to go out with Ryan, Jim Jones went mad. He thought it was a repudiation of his work. I tried to tell him that 14 out of 1,200 was damn good. But Jones was desolate...
...carrying Colombian marijuana or cocaine is a dramatic but far from unusual event. "Several hundred come in every day," says Tom Stuckey, an FAA official in Louisiana. Most flights from Colombia are bound for Florida and Georgia; a DC-7 with twelve tons of marijuana was discovered at an airfield in Georgia last spring. Countless other "pot planes" take off from Mexico for the deserts of the Southwest, where the Drug Enforcement Administration has found more than 40 small aircraft abandoned this year. The trafficking is a high-profit operation: a single ten-ton marijuana flight can mean $2 million...
...clear cool day in 1926, a nine-year-old boy in short pants watched a Swallow biplane circle and land at his hometown airfield in Boise, Idaho. It was the first plane he had ever seen close up. It was also the start of the first permanent scheduled airline service in the U.S. More than half a century later, TIME'S Jerry Hannifin finally realized his childhood dream by flying a restored Swallow. He has logged 2,550 hours in the air as a pilot, flying planes that ranged from a J-3 Cub to the Air Force...
...military airfield at Dire Dawa, dozens of green-and-brown-camouflaged MiG-17s and 21s thunder off into the sky each day to strike at Somali forces hundreds of miles away. As they roar down the runway, mules pulling carts plod past the barbed-wire boundaries of the tarmac, carrying jugs of water. The combatants themselves are hardly better off. There are indications on both sides that the greenest troops are pushed into the front lines. One captured Somali who said he was 13 years old was shown off by the Ethiopians in Harar. The youth claimed he had been...