Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Koreans threatened and often beat the men in order to extract "confessions." At one point, said Bucher, "they threatened to commence shooting the most junior members of my crew." He added: "I was rarely beaten in the face because I was subjected to a lot of camera ordeals, and they wanted me to look at least presentable. But this didn't prevent them from caving in my ribs, or kicking me in the tailbone to the point where I was almost unable to walk for weeks...
Treatment Worsened. Bucher said one of his men had been clubbed repeatedly with a four-by-four timber only a week before their release. Bradley Crowe, 21, a communications technician third class, said treatment of the crew worsened in September, when a U.S. apology expected by the North Koreans failed to materialize. Fed little besides soup and kimchi, a garlic-laden cabbage dish, all of the men lost weight-one as much...
Throughout the ordeal, said Bucher, "we were trying to tell you we'd been had." The most famous example: a North Korean photograph of the crew, with some of them visibly giving the photographer what was variously interpreted as the word "help" in sign language and the well-known U.S. sign of disrespect (TIME, Oct. 18). One crewman wrote his family that his captors were gentle people, the nicest he'd seen since his last visit to St. Elizabeth's-a U.S. mental hospital in Washington...
...bring down upon Israel fresh accusations that it overreacts to Arab provocations. The incitement in this instance had taken place only two days before, at Athens' international airport. There, a New York-bound Boeing 707 belonging to El Al, the Israeli airline, and carrying 41 passengers and a crew of ten had just moved away from its loading ramp when two men dashed onto the runway. Opening a canvas travel bag, they snatched out an automatic rifle and four incendiary grenades and fired a fusillade of bullets at the fuselage. They killed one passenger...
...carry about 140 passengers in great comfort. They can round sharp curves at speeds 40% higher than existing equipment-and a coffee cup filled to the brim will not spill over. Separate power-dome units on either end of the train house the engines, cabins for the two-man crew and first-class observation seats. An engineer can run the train in either direction without turning it around. He simply walks from one power-dome car to another...