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...tarmac to have a chat with TWA Captain John Testrake, 57, pilot of the ill-fated Flight 847. He sat in the cockpit, looking fit but somewhat in need of a shave, with a pistol- toting gunman at his side. Not far away was the hulk of a Jordanian airliner destroyed by Shi'ite terrorists a week earlier...
...week's first hijacking had begun on Tuesday, when half a dozen Shi'ites stormed aboard a Jordanian-owned Boeing 727 at Beirut airport. They overpowered eight Jordanian security guards, then ordered the Swedish pilot to fly to Larnaca, Cyprus...
...Lebanese Boeing 707 landed there, a young Palestinian, producing a hand grenade, threatened to blow up the plane as a protest against the earlier Shi'ite hijacking. He soon surrendered to the plane's captain, however, after being granted his request to fly to Amman aboard a Jordanian airliner...
...board both the hijacked Jordanian plane and the hijacked Lebanese plane were Professor Landry Slade, an American who is serving as an acting dean of the American University of Beirut, and his teenage son William. "It wasn't bad," the younger Slade remarked, after he and the other passengers had been released in Cyprus, "but it isn't something we want to talk about." Two days later, when he learned of the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, Landry Slade told reporters, "God help them all. I know what it's like." Professor Slade was, in fact, a good deal luckier...
Aware of Israel's opposition to the Jordanian request, Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts garnered the support of 67 other Senators last week for a nonbinding resolution to ban sales of advanced arms to Jordan as long as it "continues to oppose the Camp David peace process and purchases arms from the Soviet Union." That move, declared a frustrated Shultz, was an attempt "to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye." The Administration argued that now more than ever, as he pushes for peace, the King needs the weapons...