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...Flamingo Road among other places. But in Time Bomb, an NBC-TV movie that will be aired later this month, Morgan Fairchild, 34, will add a more literal meaning to her reputation as a mankiller. Fairchild plays the leader of a gang of gun-toting terrorists who attempt to hijack a truckload of weapons-grade plutonium in Texas. "I hope it doesn't seem too Hollywood," Fairchild says. "I have this little porcelain face, and short of taking a hammer to it, there's nothing you can do." Still, the 100-lb. beauty says that...
...hijack attempt is foiled
...episode was the most violent hijacking in Soviet aviation history, though by no means the first. Since 1970,14 cases of air piracy have been reported in the Soviet Union. In 1973, after a rash of hijack attempts, authorities declared that plane seizures resulting in loss of life were punishable by death. Neither that penalty nor the rigorous security checks to be found at every Soviet airport were sufficient to deter the Georgian wedding party. Alarmed Soviet officials launched a high-level investigation into the case. No mention of the event appeared in the Soviet national press...
...Doctrine of Overriding Outrage also rests on the submerged premise that since the established power owns the microphone and podium, the process of so-called free speech is part of the problem, not the solution. The heckling zealot wishes to reroute the entire discussion: hijack the issue and force it to a wilder jurisdiction. Hecklers take ideas hostage...
...dying act of the P.L.O. is to hijack an entire city. Let us help Israel stamp them out once for all and eliminate the core of world terrorism...