Word: hijacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to improve the image of the Palestine Liberation Organization. It made no bones about being an arm of the P.L.O., which makes few bones about engaging in terrorism. Just last spring the P.L.O. decided to retain Abul Abbas on its executive committee, even though he masterminded the 1985 hijack of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, in which elderly American Leon Klinghoffer was murdered...
...incident would not have surprised a Western audience. Two men described as drug addicts commandeered a taxi to the airport, killing two militiamen who pursued them. The pair then attempted to hijack an airliner and murdered two of the 76 passengers before being overpowered and killed by security guards...
What was extraordinary was that the report on the hijack attempt, which took place in the city of Ufa, 740 miles east of Moscow, was carried on Soviet television. Apparently part of Mikhail Gorbachev's new "open" information policy, which has come to include reports of accidents and disasters, the broadcast alluded to the Soviet Union's drug problem, which government officials until recently have tried to play down...
KARACHI, Pakistan--A U.S. Air Force medical transport plane staffed by battle surgeons evacuated 17 victims yesterday, including six Americans, who were wounded in the hijack of a Pan Am jumbo jet that killed at least 15 people...
...hijack ended 17 hours later when lights went out inside the aircraft and the hijackers fired at passengers and hurled grenades. Pakistani commandos wrested control of the aircraft half an hour after shooting began...