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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salesman Hussain Sahfi, his business suit stained with blood, still seemed in shock last week as he uttered those words. Just before dawn last Friday, Pan American World Airways Flight 73 had touched down at Pakistan's Karachi International Airport on a scheduled, 21-hour flight from Bombay to Frankfurt and New York. Eighteen hours later, a few minutes before 10 p.m. Friday, the 747 jumbo jet still stood on the tarmac, but by then at least 17 of the plane's estimated 400 passengers and crew members were dead, victims of a hijacking and a subsequent firefight. About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Carnage Once Again | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...Democrats wish to amend the constitution to admit refugees fleeing political persecution but not those simply seeking a better life in an affluent society. That would theoretically bar more than 80% of this year's newcomers. Enforcing such rules, however, may not be easy. As one airline executive in Frankfurt observed last week, "How can we tell the difference between acceptable political refugees and nonacceptable economic refugees? It just won't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Not Enter | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...gunmen originally asked to be flown to Cyprus to free Palestinian terrorists jailed there. The flight originated in Bombay and was headed for New York by way of Frankfurt...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: B-School Professor's Husband Killed; Sociologist Slain in Recent Hijacking | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

Airline officials and sources have estimated about 80 Americans were aboard the flight, which originated in Bombay, India, and was headed for New York by way of Frankfurt, West Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S., European Hijack Victims Airlifted | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

...American World Airways sent a special plane to Karachi to pick up passengers who want to continue on to Frankfurt and then New York, airline officials said. The plane was scheduled to leave Karachi today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S., European Hijack Victims Airlifted | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

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