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...fixture in Washington for more than a decade, Baker hardly lacked opportunities, including a lucrative offer to write his memoirs and a chance to run a foundation that Rice University wants to name for him in Texas. But after three years as America's jet-lagged senior diplomat and three months on the campaign trail managing Bush's failed re-election drive, Baker wanted to spend more time at home...
...price of a fast-paced international career. Salonen already knows the dangers firsthand: while conducting a concert of new music a few years ago with his other orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony, he temporarily blacked out, exhausted, and had to start over. He hopes to avoid being a "jet-lag conductor" by settling professionally in Los Angeles. Next season will be his last in Stockholm. "Being music director of one orchestra is enough," he says. But an added attraction in California is the enterprising Music Center Opera company; he's talking about leading a Boris Godunov there...
Kantor has known considerable personal tragedy; he lost his wife in a passenger-jet crash in 1978, and a 17-year-old son in a fiery auto accident 10 years later. He has two grown children, and a nine-year-old daughter by his second wife, former NBC reporter Heidi Schulman. An early riser, Kantor runs about five miles each morning and is at his office, in a small building a block from the White House...
Militants seeking independence for Croatia have struck inside the U.S. in the past. In December 1975 Croatian nationalists were suspected of planting a bomb in a luggage locker at La Guardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Less than a year later, Croats hijacked a TWA jet traveling from New York City to Chicago and eventually diverted it to Paris. As part of that operation, the group also planted a bomb at Grand Central Terminal, which killed a police officer who tried to defuse it. In June 1980 Croatian "freedom fighters" detonated a bomb inside the museum...
...second time in nine days, a skyjacker has demanded passage to New York City. On Feb. 11, a 20-year-old Ethiopian armed with a starter's pistol pirated a Lufthansa jet to J.F.K. Airport, only to be promptly arrested. Last Saturday, a man tentatively identified as an Azeri commandeered a Russian jetliner on a flight from Siberia to St. Petersburg and demanded to be flown to New York. Persuaded to believe that the aircraft did not have enough fuel to cross the Atlantic, the hijacker agreed to stop in Tallinn, Estonia, then Stockholm, Sweden, where he finally surrendered...