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...blue-and-white Boeing 747 left Larnaca at 1:17 a.m. Wednesday (6:17 p.m. EDT Tuesday) with three members of Kuwait's royal family still among the hostages...
...LARNACA, Cyprus--A hijacked Kuwaiti jumbo jet took off for Algeria early yesterday after gunmen freed 12 more passengers in what they called a gesture of goodwill...
...LARNACA, Cyprus--The hijackers of a Kuwaiti jumbo jet offered to trade passengers for fuel yesterday and threatened to crash the aircraft into Kuwait's royal place. They also warned of a "slow and quiet massacre" of their hostages if their demands were...
...minute before a second deadline expired four hours later, the engineer, relaying the hijackers' messages to Larnaca Airport control tower, said: "They've already started to hurt one of the passengers." He gave no details...
...just after midnight. An American helicopter then transported him to Beirut. His use of U.S. facilities for his flights was not surprising, even though officials traveling with President Reagan said they had no direct involvement in his initiative. They pointed out that U.S. helicopters fly frequently between Beirut and Larnaca, where many U.S. embassy personnel have been evacuated for security reasons. Waite had ample reason, moreover, for not wanting to spend any more time than necessary in Beirut. Last November he was trapped for several hours in a building there that came under withering cross fire in a street battle...