Word: compartmentalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, another aerial drama was under way. Back in Amsterdam, the two "Senegalese" who had been denied passage by El Al had bought first-class tickets on Pan American's Flight 93, a 747. As Clipper 93 taxied toward its takeoff position, ground controllers?whom El Al had alerted about...
The Israelis' system of airborne guards has been adopted by Ethiopian Airlines, which has also been plagued by hijackers. But the Ethiopians have improvised as they went along. Earlier this year, Ethiopian guards overpowered two would-be hijackers aboard a Boeing and strapped them into seats in the nearly...
Paradoxically, very few of Plimpton's friends claim to know him well. Says Novelist William Styron: "You have an entree into the innards of most people you know for 18 or 20 years. With George you don't. He doesn't set up walls; they just exist...
The large number of Cubans with varied economic and educational backgrounds seeking political refuge in countries throughout the world gives a clue to the real feelings of the Cuban people. Total emigration from Cuba since 1959 has been estimated at 1.250,000 persons of which 850.000 are in the United...
The explosion might have resulted from a malfunction, but investigators doubted it; the blast occurred toward the tail section, probably in the baggage or mail compartment. Only three hours earlier, an Austrian Airlines plane bound from Frankfurt to Vienna (where some of its mail was to be transferred to another...