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...France Flight 747 from Frankfurt had just begun its descent toward Paris in the late-afternoon sun last Tuesday when three men, brandishing knives and Molotov cocktails, burst into the cockpit and demanded to be taken to Iran. Thus began for their 61 hostages a harrowing 46-hour journey of nearly 3,000 miles, with stops in Geneva, Beirut, Cyprus and, finally, Tehran. There the hijackers, by now mysteriously armed with revolvers and automatic pistols, declared that starting Thursday morning they would kill one French passenger every hour until the French government agreed to release five Islamic fanatics in prison...
Travelers familiar with the loose safety arrangements at Caracas' Simón Bolivar Airport were not surprised that the two men were able to board the Aeropostal flight carrying pistols. However, the Air France hijackers eluded security checks at Frankfurt International Airport, which boasts some of the toughest safeguards in the world. No airport X-ray machine or magnetic scanner can detect the liquid explosives the men carried. Moreover, some hostages believe the guns were in a mysterious bag delivered to the hijackers by Iranians at the Tehran airport...
Back in the 1950s, Old Joe explained, he had been in Germany with Boston's then Archbishop Richard Cushing. One night in Frankfurt they wandered out to a Graham rally. "My God," recounted Old Joe, "there must have been 30,000 Germans out to hear this guy. I turned to the Archbishop and said, 'What's he got?' And then I said, 'Whatever it is, Jack had better get to know him.'" If memory is not too dim, Old Joe then said he had looked Graham up after the rally and suggested the reverend...
...victims were so badly burned that they were flown on to Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. One Marine, with burns over 95% of his body, died in West Germany, while another died en route. At the U.S. Army Medical Center at Landstuhl, southwest of Frankfurt, where the most badly wounded were taken, the patients said nothing or spoke in monosyllables. As the shock wore off, according to Colonel Richard Swengel, the hospital's chief of neurosurgery, "a lot of their fears and anxieties started coming out." How many were hurt? What had happened to their...
...date that components of the first Pershing II missiles are scheduled to be flown into Ramstein Air Force Base near Frankfurt. The missiles will be operative...