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...with him. One of Nixon's Jewish backers, Industrialist Max Fisher of Detroit, arranged such a talk. Fisher also set up a meeting with Nixon in which Jewish leaders urged intervention with the Soviet Union to lift the death sentences given two Leningrad Jews who had tried to hijack a plane and flee the Soviet Union. Nixon and Kissinger did petition Moscow, and the death penalty was avoided...
...government, headed by Fernando Belaunde Terry, the agency erected a miniature Fort Bragg in the heart of the Peruvian jungle and recruited a crack counterinsurgency team, which made short work of the guerrillas. Another passage reports that in 1969 the agency learned of a scheme by radicals to hijack a Brazilian airliner. The CIA kept the news to itself for fear that it would expose the agency's penetration of Brazilian Guerrilla Leader Carlos Marighella's band and thus jeopardize a plan to capture him. The plane was hijacked on schedule-and Marighella was trapped on schedule...
Soon many agents became disillusioned. Much of each week he was away from Washington, where decisions were either being delayed or handled by assistants. Some officials there began calling him "Two-Day Gray." Gray was out making speeches to help Nixon get reelected. Concerned that he might become a hijack...
...major airports around the U.S., ground crews smile apologetically as they ransack women's handbags, flip through businessmen's briefcases, tear open wrapped packages and even frisk some passengers for firearms, knives or other weapons that could be used to hijack a plane. For the passengers, these security spot checks are a brief, unaccustomed annoyance; for the airlines, they are a financial drag. Both the annoyance and the burden will climb sharply next week, as tough new federal regulations designed to guard against skyjacking take hold...
Anxious to escape prejudice and persecution in Soviet Russia, a small group of Jews plots to hijack an airliner and fly to freedom. It is a story of particular contemporary urgency. Director Golan displays the ability to separate it from all its political complexities and moral imperatives, and reduce it to clichés that everyone will understand...