Word: hijacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...meeting of the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations in Mexico City next month, the angry pilots will press hard for a boycott of any country that offers sanctuary to hijackers or even appears to be encouraging them. A boycott would presumably apply to such states as Cuba, Algeria and Libya, which have made a practice of admitting hijackers. But even some of these nations have recently shown that they are getting tired of it. Twice Algeria has returned kidnapers' ransom money to U.S. airlines, and Cuba now jails many of the fugitives who fly to Havana...
...Airport seem to give Hubbard's theories even more credence. Charles Tuller, who led the band that took over the Eastern jet, could not sustain his marriage, hated his exwife, and was said to be awkward and uncomfortable around women. The man who was subdued before he could hijack a National Airlines jet in New York was discovered to be wearing women's underclothes. What is known about both men seems to confirm Hubbard's belief that skyjackers are emotionally disturbed. In his experience, they are not strong, masculine supermen but weak, longtime losers, men who have...