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...carrying automatic weapons stood guard during the stopover of an Air India flight. In Toronto four bomb threats, all crank calls as it turned out, compelled authorities to delay the loading of three flights and to pull a fourth off the runway. In Rome an Austrian Airlines DC-9 en route to Vienna was recalled following an anonymous bomb threat. At Boston's Logan International Airport yet another call about a bomb forced hundreds to vacate a terminal while police and sniffer dogs searched the building...
...Tokyo, a bomb exploded at Narita Airport Sunday as luggage was being unloaded from a Canadian Pacific Boeing 747, which minutes before had arrived from Vancouver. Two airport workers were killed and four others injured. Less than an hour later, an Air India 747 en route from Toronto plunged into the sea off the Irish coast, and all 329 people aboard were feared dead. Authorities suspected that the otherwise inexplicable crash might have been triggered by a bomb. The international police organization Interpol began an investigation of possible links between the two incidents (see WORLD...
...world for blighting their happiness and reaches a decision: "People are monsters and I'd better get rich or I'll have to depend on monsters." After reading a book on sunken treasures, Mark becomes obsessed with finding a ship laden with the spoils of Peru that went down en route to the Caribbean in 1820. Years of research, to the exclusion of his schoolwork and to his father's growing annoyance, yield the final fragment of the puzzle. Mark knows he must go to Santa Catalina, a small out island in the Bahamas, where he will surely strike...
There is never a good time for a jet fighter to crash, but the loss of an F-20 Tigershark jet in Labrador last week seemed particularly inopportune. The plane, en route to the Paris Air Show, had stopped over at Goose Bay airport; coming in from a practice flight, it suddenly nosed down during its landing approach, killing Pilot David Barnes, 40, as it plowed into the ground. The crash occurred the day before the annual stockholders meeting of Northrop Corp., which spent $800 million to develop the F-20 but has not been able to sell a single...
...Auschwitz, said angrily, "I still can't believe I am here to see my President rehabilitate the SS." Sixty members of the World Jewish Student Union held a vigil in the town square. Reagan came close to a protest scene only as his motorcade passed through the downtown area en route to the air base. There was a brief scuffle as police carrying plastic shields broke up a fight that had started among the protesters. Overall, the demonstrations were smaller than expected and major clashes were avoided...