Word: hijack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second skyjacking, the other being the bold abduction of a German plane that forced the release of Arab terrorists (see THE WORLD). In a season of ever more daring and dangerous aerial piracy, the Houston affair was perhaps the most bizarre to date. The leader of the hijackers was Charles Tuller, 48, a federal bureaucrat gone berserk. Going along for the ride were his two sons, Bryce, 19, and Jonathan, 18, and a friend of theirs, William Graham, 18. Only the week before, Tuller & Sons and Graham, two of them posing as telephone repairmen, had entered a bank in Arlington...
...Vietnamese Communists, between 100 and 200 strong, infiltrated Phnom-Penh during the dead of night, divided into three teams and went quickly to work. One group of sappers blew up the city's largest and most modern bridge. Another blasted its way into a stadium and tried to hijack ten armored personnel carriers parked there. The third group, armed with automatic weapons and rockets, filtered into a residential section near the stadium and entered the French embassy compound. By the time the attackers were repulsed, 83 Communists had been killed and seven captured; 26 Cambodians were dead...
...Buffalo, a local man, Charles Smith, 23, held his 18-month-old daughter hostage at knifepoint in an attempt to hijack an American Airlines 707 at Greater Buffalo International airport. He had previously stabbed his estranged wife and her boy friend, neither fatally, before FBI agents, relatives and ministers talked him into surrendering...
...ship is considerably more difficult to hijack than a 100-ton jet. On the other hand, a 963-ft. ocean liner contains more hiding places for anyone who wants to stow a bomb aboard. Last week the British liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was in mid-ocean when an extortionist telephoned Cunard Lines and demanded a queen's ransom of $350,000. Six bombs were hidden aboard the Queen and ready to detonate, the caller warned. They had been placed there by an ex-convict and a terminal cancer victim who were fatalistically prepared to be blown sky-high along...
...whole novel is compressed into twelve hours, time enough for Wright to outwit a Defense Department intelligence agent, hijack several tanks of nerve-gas components, and rig a devilish device to dispense them. With two gases and two competitive adversaries about to mix lethally, the novel's title, Binary, and its suspense are readily understandable. Crichton also manages to turn the book into something of an early warning device. An epilogue in the form of think-tank recommendations to the Government suggests specific changes in existing procedures to prevent the theft of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. Crichton...