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Last week's Indian Airlines hijack drama may have ended peacefully, but don't expect that to foster regional peace. India has blamed the hijacking directly on Pakistan, whose involvement New Delhi claimed to have proved Thursday when Home Minister L. K. Advani announced what he said were the names of the five hijackers - all of them Pakistani. Advani said India had learned of their identities after arresting four men in Bombay - two Pakistanis, a Nepalese and an Indian - one of whom had allegedly been in phone contact with the hijackers during the course of the drama...
DIED. TONY BRYANT, 60, Black Panther turned anti-communist who founded a short-lived, conservative black magazine after spending 11 years in a Cuban prison for hijacking a plane to Havana; of leukemia; in Miami. His 1984 book, Hijack, recounted his prison ordeal...
...Last week MCI joined Sprint and Qwest in offering 5[cents]-a-minute calling rates, and market leader AT&T may follow suit. Meanwhile, Qwest announced unlimited Internet access and 250 minutes of long-distance calls for $24.95 a month. One caution: Carriers may slip in new fees or hijack your local toll-call service. Read your bill carefully...
...crumbles. Think your password is safe because it isn't "password"? If it's in the dictionary, there is software that will solve it within minutes. If it's a complex combination of letters and numbers, that may take an hour or so. There is software that will hijack your desktop and cursor--and you won't even know about it. Hacking doesn't require much hardware; even a Palm Pilot can do it. What protection do you have? "Minimize enticements," say the teachers. If you don't want to be a victim of information rape, in other words...
Before a standing-room-only crowd in the Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School last night, Heston said the nation is "engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war, that is about to hijack your birthright to think and say what lives in your heart...