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Hess appeared briefly on the world's center stage in May 1941, when he made a quixotic flight to Scotland. Dressed in the uniform of a Luftwaffe captain, the No. 2 ranking Nazi flew a Messerschmitt fighter from Germany and parachuted into an area near the estate of the Duke of Hamilton. He was promptly captured by an astonished farmer. Hess believed he was obeying supernatural powers and explained that he had come on a mission to end the war. Apprised of Hess's flight, Hitler declared that his deputy should be clapped in a madhouse or shot. The British...
...same time, Botha unleashed a strong attack on the 61 white moderates who last month flew to Dakar, Senegal, for talks with leaders of the banned African National Congress. "Let Dakar be a lesson to all South Africans," thundered Botha in Parliament. "A leopard never changes its spots." In the future, he warned, the government will maintain tighter control over the issuance and renewal of passports and will set up a commission to look into the activities and funding of organizations like the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa, the antiapartheid group that planned the trip to Dakar...
...Bullets flew from both sides of the white wall, turning the suburban street into a war zone. At 6:25, an officer picked up a megaphone and urged surrender. The message was directed at Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera, Panama's former No. 2 military man and a vociferous critic of the country's de facto leader, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. Now Diaz Herrera taunted, "Tell Noriega to come and get me." An hour later police forced Diaz Herrera and a retinue of 45 guests, relatives and bodyguards from the house. All was quiet when, just a few blocks away, Noriega...
...just flown from New York," he called out as he hopped from the plane. "By the way, where am I?" The Irish brogues of the puzzled mechanics swarming around the airplane informed him he was in Dublin, 6,000 miles off course. "I got up in the clouds and flew the wrong way," explained Corrigan, blaming a stuck compass. The folk hero, who now lives in Santa Ana, Calif., gave up his pilot's license 15 years ago. This time, to be sure he would make it back to New York, Wrong Way took the train...
...Senators found occasion last week to vent their anger about the situation during confirmation hearings for T. Allan McArtor, President Reagan's nominee to be the new head of the FAA, replacing Donald Engen, who left office July 2. McArtor, 45, a senior vice president of Federal Express who flew combat missions in Viet Nam and did a stint with the Air Force's Thunderbirds precision-flying team, is expected to win easy confirmation. The Senators, however, put McArtor on notice. "You have got a crisis on your hands," declared Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat. Warned Ted Stevens...