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...operation failed when a Mahé airport customs inspector found a weapon hidden in a Froth-Blower's luggage. A gunfight broke out at the airport, in which one mercenary was killed and several oth ers wounded. Desperate to escape, the raiders fought their way to the control tower, guided an incoming Air India 707 to a landing and commandeered the plane. They forced the Air India pilot to fly them 2,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to Durban...
...mercenaries who made it back to South Africa were doubly lucky. Officials in Seychelles, a nation of 92 islands 1,000 miles off the East African coast, say that there were 52 raiders in all. Some had apparently arrived in Mahé", the main island, earlier and were lying low in hotels when the main body of mercenaries landed, posing as rugby players. The coup was then triggered prematurely when a mercenary's gun was discovered. Since the ensuing airport Shootout, at least 500 visiting tourists have been confined to the islands' luxury hotels. Five mercenaries have been...
...Swaziland last week, the burly young men in blazers, sports shirts and flannels looked every inch a South African rugby club off on a holiday to the Seychelles, the small (pop. 65,000), sun-drenched chain of islands off the East African coast. But soon after they arrived at Mahé's airport, their vacation plans went abruptly awry. When a surprised immigration official discovered a gun in one of the visitors' bags, the chap's companions whipped out automatic weapons. Obviously, this was no ordinary package tour. This was a coup, and the sportsmen were mercenaries...
This time the mercenaries planned to infiltrate Mahé after they landed and stage the coup later in the week, possibly as the first phase of a bigger operation involving local sympathizers and a back-up force of other mercenaries. But the premature Shootout left the scheme in shambles and the first wave of attackers stranded at the airport-until they captured the control tower and gave the Air India plane permission to touch down. The landing was nearly a disaster; the pilot just missed a Seychelles army truck parked on the runway and was forced to hop over another...
...Already this year we've lost 200 registrations," complains Avignon's Mahé, whose 1,500-student school was denied national accreditation for graduate programs in medieval literature, modern literature and English. The minister also said "non" to six new degree offerings Avignon proposed in such fields as theater and medieval history. Students enrolled in rejected programs were obliged to transfer to other schools, often in distant towns or cities. Many of those unable to change cities have abandoned hope of advanced degrees. Angry student groups claim that 80,000 students will eventually be affected...