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Your article on the search for aircraft sabotage [AFTERMATH: FLIGHT 800 CRASH, Aug. 5] included a reference to the May 9, 1976, crash near Madrid of an Iranian air force plane that was the same model as TWA Flight 800. You mistakenly said this leased aircraft was a Continental Airlines Boeing 747-100. The aircraft in question was never in Continental's fleet. It was leased to the prerevolutionary Iranian air force by another U.S. air carrier. NED WALKER, Vice President for Corporate Communications Continental Airlines Houston...
Just a few words on Ulster [WORLD, July 22]: around 900,000 Protestants, around 600,000 Catholics. And Christians? Probably none or very, very few. MASSIMO SPILA Madrid...
MIAMI: Saddo Ibrahim learned his lesson Friday in Miami after the Lebanese man brandished a tape recorder wrapped in tinfoil and threatened to blow up Iberia Airlines Flight 6621 if he was not taken to Miami. The DC-10 was flying from Madrid to Havana when Ibrahim stepped forward with a letter opener and his "bomb." Holding two wires connected to the tape recorder, he demanded that the pilot divert the flight and told the passengers and crew: "If I put these two wires together, this bomb will blow up." The plane landed in Miami at about...
Before I came to Spain, I did not have any idea of where the United States stood in relation to the rest of the world. I always thought that things in America were the norm. Now I'm learning the meaning of the "difference." Riding the bus out of Madrid on my first day in Spain, I was surprised to see that between the city streets and sun-bleached countryside, there was nary a green-grassed suburb. I was even more astonished by the absence of safety fencing around the steep cliffs of the mountain ranges in northern Spain. Living...
...recent election proved what many have surmised since the beginning of the "peace process" in Madrid three years ago. The Israelis are justifiably weary about giving up vital land areas since the first round of negotiations. What we never knew during the governments of Rabin and Peres was exactly how great the opposition was. The cloak of secrecy was tightened by the lack of any referendum to determine support for their policies. Rabin's senseless assassination might even have been averted if his cabinet had ever had the good sense to assess the true opinion of the average Israeli...