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...either dead or seriously wounded. Anthony, addicted to this to make him a man. Instead, it made it hard for him to sleep through the night. Taking a job at the butcher's, Anthony tries to straighten out his life, but he is soon sucked into a scheme to hijack an armored car. At this point the audience must wonder how many times this film can change gears. Just as one gets comfortable with the pace, the Hughes Brothers slam it into reverse. As can be expected the robbery goes awry, leaving some dead and Anthony...
...talks continued, Algerian police, using night-vision devices, identified the hijack leader as Abdul Abdullah Yahia, 25, alias "the Emir." A petty thief and a greengrocer from the tough Algiers neighborhood of Bab El Oued, Yahia was described as belonging to the G.I.A. and a man who had taken part in earlier "attacks of rare violence and savagery." The negotiators said Yahia spoke "approximate" French, seemed "intellectually limited" and ended every sentence with "Inch'Allah," or God willing...
...servicing was done by G.I.G.N. men wearing -- in an ironic reversal of how the hijack had started in Algiers -- airport staff uniforms. The troopers were able to ascertain that the plane's doors were not blocked or booby- trapped. According to some accounts, the policemen also slipped tiny eavesdropping devices into the aircraft. Along with external surveillance devices -- infrared-vision equipment and "cannon" microphones trained on the windows and fuselage -- the bugs would have allowed the gendarmes to follow the hijackers' movements inside the aircraft...
Perhaps, after his Dallas trip, President Levin should fly out to the parents of each of the children who were rejected from the Directed Studies program. Levin should explain to them why he has allowed liberal ideologues at Yale to hijack their children's education...
...that score? Apparently not, but he did win some points. He took a step toward better relations with the U.S. He received an immigration package that gives him some say about who can leave his island and, at the same time, removes much of the incentive for Cubans to hijack ships and planes to head for the U.S. Whether or not Washington says so, Castro must believe other agreements will be possible...