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...Jeremiah, which she had never read before. The text said: "And they shall come again from the land of the enemy." If Hagerman does not appear during the 60-day release period, his wife is thinking of getting a visa and, armed with his photograph, questioning the people around Bac Ninh, where Hagerman's F-105 went down...
...estimated 90% of the population of the states is illiterate, and women remain in purdah behind grilled windows. But Gulf Aviation's frequent BAC-111 jet flights now link the wealthier states more closely than camels ever did. At the bars in the vast airport terminals, Arab entrepreneurs in long robes sip Scotch to the piped-in music of Ray Charles; porters pause during prayer hours to kneel on the floor facing Mecca...
...just finished a rousing speech in the coffee-growing town of Puriscal. about 20 miles from the capital of San José, when an aide handed him an urgent message. Figueres' old fighting spirit flared as he read that three gunmen from Nicaragua had hijacked a Nicaraguan BAC 1-11 with 40 passengers and six crew members aboard. The plane had just made an unscheduled landing at San José airport. Would the President authorize refueling it for the flight on to Havana, or providing a new plane for the trip? "To hell with this!" exclaimed Don Pepe...
From the moment he stepped out of his Air Malawi BAC-111 jetliner to receive a 21-gun salute and a red-carpet greeting from South Africa's State President Jim Fouche, the emotional Banda seemed delighted to be there. Hustling over to a crowd of waiting Africans, he waved his fly whisk, made from a wildebeest's tail, and shouted in Fanagalo, the language of the South African gold mines, "Kamuzu is glad to be here." Later Banda led South African officials on a tour of the mine offices where he had worked as a youth...
...pleased to consider themselves "priests of the intellect," as one put it; they are often so remote that they refuse to see students who want to discuss their work. Almost half of lycée entrants flunk out or are discouraged into dropping out before ever reaching the bac exams; one-third of those taking the tests last week are expected to fail...