Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story was written by Peter Stoler, with assistance from F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt, and edited by Leon Jaroff. David Wood, our Nairobi bureau chief, spent two weeks interviewing Leakey and his colleagues in such varied settings as the anthropologist's camp in northern Kenya, the noisy cabin of the four-seat Cessna that Leakey uses to get there, and the fossil storage room in the basement of Nairobi's International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute. "As in anthropology," Wood notes, "interpreting the mass of data that filled my notebooks proved more difficult than collecting...
...should leave the plane to examine the nosewheel, which had been slightly damaged during the landing. When he climbed back aboard, Mahmud confronted him in a towering rage. "Are you guilty or not guilty?" he yelled, forcing the pilot at gunpoint to kneel at the head of the cabin aisle. Then Mahmud placed a pistol in Schumann's face and killed him with one bullet. After that, one passenger said later, "we didn't have any hope left...
...commandos-their faces blackened and bodies camouflaged-stealthily approached the hijacked plane. Suddenly, there was an explosion on the runway-a diversion, and a signal for the attack. Smashing the emergency exits and blowing open the main doors with special explosives, the rescuers lobbed their stun grenades into the cabin. "Hinlegen! Hinlegen!" (Lie down! Lie down!) they shouted as they streamed aboard...
...with weapons that range from Smith & Wesson .38-cal. revolvers to a variety of machine guns and other automatic weapons. At G.S.G. 9 headquarters in St. Augustin, near Bonn, they study the tactics of terrorist organizations and learn a variety of skills-picking locks, for example, or impersonating airline cabin attendants and mechanics. They specifically train in a wide range of Lufthansa aircraft, including the Boeing 737. Also stressed is an attribute of unusual importance: the ability to maintain a high degree of competence without testing it under battle conditions. Last week's mission involved only eleven minutes...
What's in a name? I'll tell you. It's not who you are but where you are that counts. For years, in addition to constant mispronunciations of my first name, I had to endure the humiliation of being assigned to an all-boy cabin in summer camp, and the embarrassment of an arrest warrant for failure to pay a male poll tax when I lived in Brookline...