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...Leonardo da Vinci, Daniela Simpson was outside the terminal walking the family dog while her husband Victor, the Associated Press news editor in Rome, was checking bags and obtaining boarding passes for the couple and their two children for a TWA flight to New York. "Suddenly there was a shattering noise . . . and two distinct machine-gun bursts," recalled Mrs. Simpson, who reports in Rome as a TIME stringer. "And then silence. I rushed in to screams and cries, and saw my husband dripping blood from his hand and my son on the floor, shot in the stomach. They were...
That approach included booking his first flight on the airline, an orderly if spartan pre-Thanksgiving round trip between People's headquarters at Newark International Airport and Jacksonville. "Playing a typical customer, I even phoned to make my own reservation, which has been a notoriously difficult part of getting on People Express," says Alexander. "Wonder of wonders, thanks to their new reservation system, I got through on my first...
There has been money for the infamous ashtrays and hammers. There is money for investigations and even for Air Force transports to fly home the remains. But the charter flight entrusted with 256 lives went to the lowest bidder. Kenneth L. Crowell Canton, N.Y. Death on the Farm...
...been as big a problem as simple logistics. Based at Fort Bragg, N.C., the Army's elite Delta Force has been too far from recent targets of terrorism to play a role. By the time Delta Force troops reached the Mediterranean to respond to the seizure of TWA Flight 847 last June and the hijacking of the EgyptAir flight to Malta in November, they were too late for a successful rescue operation. One of the Holloway Commission's recommendations is for the "forward deployment" of some special-operations forces and equipment overseas...
...more of the five main air bases strung out along the Libyan coast. Intelligence reports indicated that Libya was accelerating its deployment of Soviet surface-to-air missiles, including SA-5s, which will significantly strengthen its defenses against attack. As part of the U.S. preparations, the Pentagon ordered a flight of EA-6B "electronic warfare" planes dispatched from Whidbey Island, Washington, to the Mediterranean. The special "jamming" craft were said to be useful in what one official called a "highdensity communications environment," presumably meaning an assault on a Libyan missile site...