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...Tuesday morning, Speakes was openly warning of economic and military pressure against Lebanon. He even mentioned two specific options: closing the Beirut airport, presumably by organizing a world boycott of Lebanon's Middle East Airlines, the only line still operating there; and "cutting off goods and services," presumably by naval blockade. According to one White House official, the decision had been made that "it was time to turn up the heat and display some power." At an afternoon meeting between Reagan and his advisers, Secretary of State George Shultz pleaded for more time to give diplomacy a chance "to bear...
Confirmation of the rumor that four Americans had been kept apart from the other hostages took place in a dramatic on-camera television scene that was carried to the U.S. by satellite. It happened on Saturday morning in the schoolyard near the Beirut airport, where the hostages and their luggage were assembled for what was expected to be an imminent trip to Damascus. It looked like a rather shaggy adult-education class being called to order, except for the gun-toting Amal guards watching from rooftops. In his now familiar crisp tones, Allyn Conwell called out the names...
Everywhere, nerves were on edge. At London's Heathrow, the world's busiest international airport, armored vehicles and troops carrying automatic weapons stood guard during the stopover of an Air India flight. In Toronto four bomb threats, all crank calls as it turned out, compelled authorities to delay the loading of three flights and to pull a fourth off the runway. In Rome an Austrian Airlines DC-9 en route to Vienna was recalled following an anonymous bomb threat. At Boston's Logan International Airport yet another call about a bomb forced hundreds to vacate a terminal while police...
Though there were no new disasters last week to fuel the global jitters further, the images of recent violence lingered. A hijacking in Athens. An airport bombing in Frankfurt. A luggage explosion in Tokyo. A plane crash off the Irish coast. In the aftermath of so much tragedy, governments struggled to identify the causes and find and punish those responsible, while tightening security on the ground and in the air to prevent recurrences...
...Japan, there were indications that a sophisticated timing device may have tripped the explosion of a bomb in a bag unloaded from Canadian Pacific Flight 003. The blast killed two baggage handlers and injured four others at Tokyo's Narita International Airport just 53 minutes before the Air India plane crashed. Speculation that the two events were connected was fed by the timing, the fact that both flights had originated in Canada and suspicions that Sikh extremists might have engineered the incidents in order to strike out at the Indian government. But at week's end investigators were forced...