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...Immediate, ah, trouble," radioed someone in Flight 123's cockpit, using English, the language of international aviation. "Request turn back to Haneda. Descend and maintain 220 [22,000 ft.]." Two minutes later, a member of the cockpit crew pushed a switch that sent an emergency code signal, "7700," flashing onto radar screens in Tokyo. Asked Tokyo control: "Confirm you are declared emergency. Is that right?" Flight 123: "Yes. Affirmative...
...called the Durban address an "important statement." The Administration was studying it carefully, he said, noting that several ideas in the speech "must be clarified." The same message came from Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker, who suggested that Botha's remarks were "written in a code language of a polarized society and are not easily interpreted...
David Carkeet's first novel, Double Negative, was a murder mystery in which the only witness to a crime was a toddler who had not yet mastered standard speech. The story's amateur detective was a philologist who unmasked the criminal when he cracked the child's babbled code. Carkeet's next novel, The Greatest Slump of All Time, told of a major league baseball team whose polyglot members one by one lapsed into clinical depression. Although they kept winning, they doubted the value of victory when it failed to make them happy, and found themselves facing mid-life moral...
...their South African counterparts. While the participants, who included the chief executive officers of General Motors and Citibank, have kept a tight lid on the proceedings, it is assumed that strategies to hasten racial reform were discussed. Meanwhile another group, representing the 186 U.S. companies that subscribe to a code of fair employment practices known as the Sullivan Principles, sent a telex to the South African government urging Botha to "lower tensions" in the schools of the country's black townships...
...charges. R. Leslie Deak, then executive vice president of the firm and the founder's son, blamed the commission report for some of the company's financial problems. In December 1984, Deak & Co. and two of its offshoots filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Two other subsidiaries, Deak-Perera U.S. and a foreign commerce bank, Deak National Bank, were not included in the filings. Said the younger Deak: "The damage we have suffered from maliciousness in that report to a very great extent caused the downfall of a very fine firm and the damage...