Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-class section of the jetliner. "Sit down!" she shouted. Holding two hand grenades aloft, the girl then herded the startled passengers into the tourist section of the plane, where three male comrades-a German and two Arabs-were already in control. With that, 242 passengers and twelve crew members began a terrifying odyssey that first took them to Libya for refueling (where a pregnant passenger was allowed to go free) and then to Uganda's Entebbe Airport. As the horror of what was happening sank in, a French oil executive moaned: "My God! This is my second skyjacking...
...Gently swaying hammocks on the Norwegian Christian Radich (below left) provide less jarring sleep for trainees than do officers' bunks, which are usually fixed; cadets on the same ship happily trim each other's hair. Members of the British schooner Sir Winston Churchill's all-women crew face the inevitable galley chores (bottom left), while men aboard the Christian Radich try to keep fit with rigorous daily calisthenics on the main deck...
...Entebbe, the original skyjackers were reinforced by four men, probably Arabs, carrying submachine guns, rifles, a Beretta pistol and dynamite. Passengers and crew were herded into a seldom-used terminal; later, Israelis were separated from the others when one of the terrorists barked in English, "Israelis to the right." Via Radio Uganda, the skyjackers proclaimed that they were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Marxist, zealously anti-Israel fedayeen group led by Dr. George Habash. But the Popular Front's Beirut headquarters disowned them, and the 21-nation Arab League, at its Cairo meeting...
...June 29, the six-gun brig Nancy was smuggling West Indian gunpowder to Philadelphia when she was trapped by British warships. Under cover of fog, her crew beached her off Cape May, New Jersey, and unloaded 265 barrels of powder-leaving behind just enough for a large explosion. They then lit a long fuse to a keg of powder and fled. Five of the British boats emerged from the fog and sent boarding parties onto the Nancy. Just as they took possession, with three cheers, the cached gunpowder went off. Says one witness: "Eleven dead bodies have since come...
...certain whether Freedman was among the 101 hostages released by the guerillas yesterday, most of whom were French nationals. The Associated Press reported that most of the 110 passengers still held prisoner were either members of the flight crew, Israeli citizens or those with dual citizenship...