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...ticket to Tampa. Suddenly he was the same snarling Cuban secret policeman he had been in pre-Batista days; suddenly he was fulfilling his role as a hotheaded member of Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement. He pointed a big, Luger-type pistol at Pilot William E. Buchanan. 40, and snapped: "Turn this airplane around." Unruffled, Buchanan banked the $3,500,000 ship into a wide turn calculated to alert the radar watch on the ground. "All right, now," Buchanan drawled, "what heading do you want me to fly?" "Two hundred ten degrees," said the slim air pirate...
Hotheaded Kids. In the cockpit, Oquendo braced himself against the closed door, tapped Flight Engineer Philip Knudsen menacingly with his gun whenever anyone reached for a switch without explanation. Pilot Buchanan nursed a double worry: the Cuban air force might attack because he was out of the normal Havana approach corridor ("They have some hot airplanes there with hotheaded kids flying them," he reported later), and the gunman might start shooting if any passengers tried to storm the door. He got Oquendo's permission to make one laconic announcement on the plane's public-address system: "Ladies...
Rough Time. Soldiers signaled the Electra crew to hurry out of the plane; but Buchanan and Yandell stalled, throwing switches and circuit breakers wildly, making sure the Cubans would have a rough time refiring the engines. "That system is a mess now," says Buchanan. "I pity the poor guy who has to try to start her up. He'll go crazy." Pirate Oquendo had only one terse explanation for the puzzled airport guards: "They have three of our airplanes. Here...
...days (the others were from Arizona State University, Hamilton College, Brigham Young University). He debated on television with New York's liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits, was a great hit at a glittery Washington debut party for the daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan. And he gave a typical two-fisted, newsmaking speech to the editors of United Press International...
...Buchanan noted that the students are not being employed merely to help the library keep abreast of the work load at Widener...