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Captain Larry Kinsey announced to the passengers: "Please act like adults. If this insurrection doesn't stop, I'm gonna put this plane down." The uproar continued. Kinsey, good as his word, landed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Some disgusted passengers canceled out, and the rest boarded a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Kindergarten in the Sky | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

In the next five days, 20 more Salvadorans died in clashes among the many extremist political factions that have made civil strife a way of life in El Salvador (pop. 4.8 million). On one side are the leftist terrorist groups that seek to provoke a Nicaragua-style insurrection. On the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: One Step Closer to Anarchy | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Estimates today of the world's population of permanently unsettled refugees range between 10 million and 13 million. Every continent and virtually every nation has been affected. In the Middle East, there are 2.5 million Palestinians who still mourn for the vanished orange groves of Jaffa, which many have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Save Us! Save Us! | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Oil started flowing in 1967, the year when past and present began to clash in Oman. Rebel groups had already mounted an insurrection to overthrow Sultan Said bin Taimur, then 56, a paranoid tyrant who hoarded gold from oil revenues in the cellar of his ancient castle in Salalah because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OMAN: Emerging from the Dark Ages | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

"When the leaders of a people commit treason," shouted Piñar, "the people with the force of right and the right of force should prevent themselves from continually being gagged, blamed, spat on, impoverished and murdered!" Lest anyone fail to get the message, Piñar told a news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Restiveness on the Right | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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