Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flight 355 was 95 minutes out of New York City on its way to Chicago when a band of passengers declared to the crew that they had other, meticulously crafted plans for the Boeing 727 and its 92 passengers and crew members. The plane was being skyjacked to advertise independence for Croatia, one of Yugoslavia's six republics and long a region of simmering separatism. Thus began a bizarre and improbable skyjacking, the first to succeed in the U.S. in nearly four years. It was the latest blow struck by Croatian separatists, who have been waging a campaign...
...skyjackers' initial European destination was London, but the British government refused them permission to land. The French government was more accommodating, and the plane with its remaining hostages and crew of seven set down at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris. But once they had the plane on the ground, the French turned tough, declaring that under no circumstances would they allow it to leave. With that, the skyjackers, after talking directly with U.S. Ambassador to France Kenneth Rush, gave up, releasing the hostages unharmed. The five were flown back to the U.S. to face charges. It turned...
RHODESIA. Vorster declared publicly that he was not prepared to put pressure on Rhodesia's Smith. In truth, he has been doing it for some time. Last year South Africa withdrew 2,000 of its paramilitary police from Rhodesia. Recently it pulled out 50 helicopter pilots, crew chiefs and technicians. Two weeks ago, South African Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller said Pretoria now regards the principle of black majority rule in Rhodesia as "acceptable." Privately, Vorster is said to believe Smith (a former R.A.F. pilot who Vorster feels is "refighting the Battle of Britain") must become more flexible. Vorster...
Pleasant Dreams. Bourjaily recounts these nervous preparations with the expertise of one who has been through them. Unfortunately, he also includes the whole libretto of $4000. Since he wrote it, his fondness for the piece is forgivable. But his tearjerker about a Southern construction crew does not sing on the page. Bourjaily lovingly describes the eventual performance as a smash success; yet it is impossible to imagine how a "solid, bass boom" of a voice could save the line: "I'll see you in the morning, Buster. Pleasant dreams...
Little by little, with these scary hints and some entrancing camerawork, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris draws you in. All signs at this stage seem to point towards a Star Trek turned upside-down: a Spaceship Enterprise--like crew that blasts off to explore strange, unknown lands and instead of finding curvacious blondes drifts into a new dimension where scampering children and uninvited "guests" control reality. Obviously more sophisticated than the sci-fi schlock we've grown used to, Solaris promises to give us a provocative view of the race to space, and a commentary, perhaps, on the moral and political...