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...Passenger Hendrik Seisen, 34, recalled later. The five skyjackers were identified as members of the Komando Jihad, or Holy War Command, a shadowy group of Muslim extremists dedicated to Iran-style Islamic revolution in Indonesia. Nervously brandishing machine guns, grenades and dynamite, they demanded $1.5 million in ransom and asylum for themselves and the 80 militants imprisoned by the government of Indonesian President Suharto...
...Pakistani antiterrorist unit and also declined to launch a Syrian commando raid against the hijackers. There was Zia himself, who apparently had no military option left and therefore chose to give in to the demands to avoid a "bloodbath." Finally, there was the Libyan government, which initially offered asylum to the 54 Pakistani inmates-then reneged while its disinvited guests were literally in midair...
...Syrians were left to pick up the pieces. They accepted the Pakistani prisoners, put them up temporarily in the Damascus airport hotel and granted them "asylum." Syrian authorities seemed less certain what to call the disposition of the hijackers. A government spokesman said they were not being granted formal political asylum but rather, temporary refuge for "humanitarian" reasons. In light of Syria's past habit of letting hijackers disappear, neither prosecution of the threesome nor their return to Pakistan seemed likely...
...dream that can still seize the world's imagination on a screen. And it is not a new dream. In 1919, when D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks deserted the studios to form United Artists, one executive declared: "The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum." That wasn't - and isn't - a bad thing. To make films, it helps to be cost-conscious. But to make a difference, you've got to be a little movie...
...VINCENT? "I am either a madman or an epileptic," wrote Painter Vincent Van Gogh. Certainly the facts of his life seem to bear him out. In his last years he cut off part of his left ear, drank kerosene, ate paint, and was in and out of a French asylum. In 1890 he shot and killed himself...