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...hearing over, he retired to write an opinion, which was released at 9:30 the following morning by the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Treating the matter as a capital case, since it involved the lives of American airmen as well as Cambodian peasants, Douglas wrote: "I do what I think any judge would do in a capital case-vacate the stay entered by the Court of Appeals...
...gauge of where the whole U.S. economy is heading. And airline executives can firm up their forecasts for the year when they see the traffic figures for May-the month the first big wave of vacationers hits the ticket counters. Having just received last May's figures, some airmen have revised their forecasts for 1973 slightly downward. Though volume continued to climb, for many lines the latest gain was smaller than in May 1972. Following are the total May traffic figures for all eleven U.S. trunk lines and the six biggest lines, comparing this year's gains with...
...both the U.S. and Mexican governments, the dilemma was cruel. To give in to the terrorists' demands cut against the grain of President Nixon's no-dealing-with-terrorists policy, enunciated in 1971 in connection with the kidnaping of four U.S. airmen by leftist terrorists in Turkey. To Mexican authorities, the release of 30 imprisoned terrorists to Cuba meant, in all likelihood, that the revolutionaries would soon be back in action in the country...
...fact that he was piloting a totally harmless, comparatively slow-moving commercial airliner seems not to have entered the minds of the Israeli airmen...
Macho's two squadrons claimed the highest sortie rate of American airmen anywhere in Southeast Asia. Each of their 52 daily "hops" averaged more than an hour, and most pilots lived with an exhausting schedule-between 14 and 16 hours a day, seven days a week. Now, the mood at Bien Hoa resembled early New Year's Eve when everyone is waiting for the boring annual office party to begin. Long lines of Marines stood listlessly on the tarmac waiting to board C-130s for transfer home. Huddled in the shade by the sprawling base terminal building...