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...deeply. His departure has led to speculation that he was sacked. ARRESTED. ABDELMAJID DAHOUMANE,33, Algerian Muslim militant alleged to have played a leading role in the "millennium bomb" plot in the U.S.; in Algiers. Dahoumane is accused of helping make bombs intended to explode at various West Coast cities at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999. He had been indicted in absentia along with three alleged accomplices, who are currently on trial in Los Angeles. CLEARED. TAKESHI ABE, 84, former head of internal medicine and vice president of Teikyo University Hospital, of professional negligence for allowing a patient...
...public tone was not encouraging. Chinese officials claimed that the U.S. plane had veered suddenly into the F-8 fighter, even though the EP-3E is about half as fast as and far less nimble than the Chinese jet. The collision had occurred about 110 km off China's coast; China considers its sovereign airspace to extend 320 km offshore, even though international agreements recognize only 19 km. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao declared that the plane had violated Chinese airspace, landed without permission and thus lost its sovereign immunity?so the Chinese government would be perfectly within its rights...
...appeared at each end. Pilots flying along aviation routes past Hainan could see new, jet-fighter-sized dispersal bays under construction. One Cathay Pacific Airways pilot suggested to a Hong Kong official that, in view of the apparent defense buildup, flight routes should be shifted farther from China's coast. Nothing was done...
That morning the Cathay airliner was at 2,700 m in clear sky, some 30 km off Hainan's east coast. At about 8:40 a.m., two Chinese fighters suddenly appeared. The aircraft were later identified as Lavochkin LA-7s, Soviet-built prop-driven fighters. For no apparent reason, the planes opened machine-gun and cannon fire. The DC-4's captain Philip Blown tried evasive action, hurling the DC-4 into a steep dive. But the airliner kept taking hits. Syd's Pirates: A Story of an Airline (Durnmount, 1983), by retired Cathay senior captain Charles "Chic" Eather, documents...
...Tuesday, March 27, Harvard met its first West Coast opponent, traveling to Fresno, CA, for a battle against the No. 19 Bulldogs. Perhaps perturbed by the cloudless Pacific weather, the Crimson came close but could not overcome in a 4-3 loss...