Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brandishing a Dominican Republic passport and a hand grenade had burst into the cockpit of the Miami-bound DC-8, shouting "Cuba! Cuba!" The jet held 171 passengers, the largest number skyjacked to date. The same day, four men armed with guns and dynamite took over an Ecuadorian airliner en route from Quito to Miami with 81 passengers and forced it to land in Havana. Both aircraft, with crews and passengers, were held briefly by Cuban authorities and released. Later in the week a National Airlines Key West-New York Boeing 727 with 47 aboard was diverted to Cuba...
...hazard to air travel continued to plague airlines last week when four planes were hijacked to Cuba within as many days. Two of last week's incidents involved foreign airlines: An Avianca DC-4 captured on a local flight and a Peruvian National Airlines Convair 998 Fan jet en route to Miami. The third was an Eastern Electra taken over on a run from Miami to Nassau. Finally, late Saturday, a United Airlines Boeing 727 carrying 20 people was hijacked on a flight from Jacksonville to Miami...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORT (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The International Women's Alpine Skiing Championship from Oberstauf-en, Germany, and the Thousand-Mile Cross-Country Auto Race down the rugged Baja California peninsula from Ensenada...
...Degree of Respect. Rowe described his long internment on his return to the U.S. en route to his home in McAllen, Texas. During the last 14 months, he lived in a wooden roofed cage deep in the forest ("You sometimes question whether it's built for an animal or a human"). During the day, he was allowed to venture only 125 feet away from his "hooch," and spent most of his time cutting firewood, setting traps and snares for mice, snakes and wild animals that would spice up his daily diet of rice and fish. He tried to keep...
...Pawn en Passant. The central event that impinges on the well-earned satisfactions of Eliot's Indian-summer years is the sadistic murder of an eight-year-old boy by a lesbian couple. This grisly action greatly resembles the Moors murder case, described in 1967 by Snow's novelist wife Pamela Hansford Johnson in a short book of moralizing social criticism called On Iniquity. Trying to match modified reality with near-art, Snow contrives to have Eliot drawn into the murder's aftermath and the murderers' trial through a series of unconvincing coincidences. The brother...