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...Israel last year. But international pressure was building up for release of the El Al plane and the detained Israelis. Commercial pilots spoke of boycotting Algerian airports. Israel enlisted the aid of 30 nations that have relations with both itself and Algeria, also appealed to U Thant for help. Perhaps more to the point, Israel intimated that if the plane was not released soon, its fighters might force down some Arab airliners in retaliation...
Growing Hobby. Collision danger, to be sure, is still remote, but Roth figures that precaution is called for. Five years ago, as head of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Denver Moonwatch Team, he became interested in the problems of satellite reentry. To help scientists predict the debris' drop more precisely, he organized flight crews into the Voluntary Flight Officer Network and asked them to report all satellite sightings...
...small sacrifice for Attorney Richard B. Sobol to help defend Gary Duncan, a Negro boat captain accused of cruelty to juveniles in Plaquemines Parish, La. To handle Duncan's case and to aid other Southern Negroes, Sobol gave up a comfortable $24,000-a-year post with a top Washington, D.C., law firm and joined a group of attorneys who are serving the civil rights movement...
...congress, even Archbishop Iakovos had to admit that the experiment had been a failure. "We offered cooperation, but there was no response," he said. "We found that what separates America and Greece is not just the ocean. It is the mentality." The return to the homeland did not help the cause of cultural Hellenization in American Orthodoxy. One resolution, approved overwhelmingly by the congress, called for more English in the church's worship...
...Sugar Mogul Charles Wanyoike Rubia, 45, doubles as chairman of the Kenya Development Finance Co., a four-year-old, nonprofit organization created to help establish new industry. A member of the dominant Kikuyu tribe, from which Kenya draws a large proportion of its successful native businessmen, the missionary-educated Rubia was once a clerk in a local stock brokerage, later became a dry-goods retailer before serving from 1962 to 1967 as Nairobi's first African mayor. Rubia's development company recently doubled its capitalization to $9,000,000. "Industry does not generally attract outside investors," he says...