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...lack of security on the ground. Such techniques as baggage searches, metal detectors and the use of hijacker "profiles," they feel, are grossly inadequate. "After all," says a Western intelligence official, "you can carry enough plastique in a toothpaste tube to blow up a plane. A detonator in a fountain pen or in a standard transistor radio is all it takes...
...itself would have to be plushly as elegant as a drawing room, and he made up plans for an elaborate entranceway and platform, with frescoed walls, a fountain, a tankful of goldfish, and a grand piano...
...Music Hall's problem is, of course, economic. The stage show is perhaps the best entertainment bargain in town; for as little as $2, a patron has been able to see low-kitsch ballet, precision numbers by the Rockettes, a magic show, an occasional elephant, horses and giant fountain displays. While Rockefeller Center, which owns the theater, is now giving it a $1,000,000 annual subsidy, the money does not make up for a marked drop in attendance over the last two decades. In its peak years in the '40s, the Music Hall attracted 12 million visitors...
...Croix, and we know who they are." Yet virtually nothing is done about them. Of 933 misdemeanor cases brought to trial on St. Croix last year, only 33 resulted in jail sentences. All five of the black youths charged with the massacre at Laurance and David Rockefeller's Fountain Valley Golf Course had had previous arrests and convictions and were either out on skipped bail, light bail or their own recognizance...
...balmy afternoon last week, four tourists from Miami finished a round of golf at the Fountain Valley course, a lavish facility on the northwest coast owned by Laurance and David Rockefeller. As the tourists stood at the outdoor bar, they were startled to see half a dozen men-all wearing military fatigues and masks-burst from a nearby hedge. Suddenly the masked men opened fire with automatic rifles, spraying bullets crazily at everyone in sight. In moments the four Miami tourists were dead and so were three club employees. A fourth, Groundskeeper John Gulliver, 23, moaned again and again...