Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aboard the big jet, terror struck swiftly. As the guerrillas prepared to take control of the plane, a grenade exploded in the hand of a woman member of the gang. She died in the blast...
With those words, the first Palestinian skyjack of 1973 was under way. The jumbo jet's 123 passengers-all but nine of them Japanese-and 22 crew members were the captives of a terrorist team that evidently included both Palestinians and members of the fanatical Japanese leftist group called Rengo Sekigun (Red Army), which last year staged a massacre at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport that cost 26 lives. Astonishingly, Amsterdam airport authorities had been tipped off beforehand by the Israeli secret service that a skyjacking attempt might be imminent, but they took no special precautions...
...Chief Purser Nobuhisa Miyashita, 37, busy serving champagne to passengers, was wounded. As the jet streaked south and east over The Netherlands, West Germany, Switzerland and Italy, the high-pitched, Arabic-accented voice of El Kassar (a pseudonym) came on the air again and again, sometimes describing the terrorists as belonging to the Japanese Red Army, sometimes as Palestinian commandos. (In Beirut, spokesmen for the Palestinian guerrilla organization Al-Fatah denied that its members were involved...
...since he left Litton in 1971, when it appeared that he would have to wait too long for Chairman Tex Thornton and then President Roy Ash to step down. Gray moved to the presidency of Connecticut's United Aircraft Corp., world's largest maker of jet engines (Pratt & Whitney). Today he is launching a major diversification for the $2 billion-a-year company. Last week United made a deal to swap $750 million of its stock for the Signal Companies, headquartered in Beverly Hills. Signal had $1.5 billion in sales last year from drilling oil and gas, manufacturing...
...come on outside and let this fella take your picture, we're trying to get this road fixed," Phillips shouted to a white-haired old woman at the door of the decaying house. As the old woman hobbled out onto the porch, an American Airlines jet passed overhead--on its way to "The Good Life...