Word: mexicanas
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...firm, Mexican President Luis Echeverría decided to bow to the demands. "Mexico will accede," he said, "because the essential thing is to protect the U.S. consul general's life." (Only six months before, five Mexican guerrillas were released from prison after their comrades hijacked a domestic Mexicana airline flight and demanded that all be allowed to fly to Cuba.) Besides, as a Mexican official put it, "allowing the terrorists to kill the consul general would have been tragic for U.S.-Mexican relations. It would have cost Mexico dearly in American investment and in our $1 billion...
Died. Rafael Osuna, 30, Mexico's dazzling tennis star, who less than two weeks before his death achieved his greatest triumph by leading his country to a stunning 3-2 conquest of Australia in the North American Zone Davis Cup competition; in the crash of a Mexicana Airlines jetliner; near Monterrey, Mexico...
...next to God, literally, flying to Cuba. With this one grand gesture of power, the skyjacker shows his contempt for the establishment." Any rational political refugee who wanted to get to Cuba could do so without great difficulty on one of the six airlines that fly there regularly: Mexicana, Iberia, Air Canada, Soviet Russia's Aeroflot, Czechoslovak Airlines, and Cubana...
...gunman can still force a stewardess to relay orders to the pilot by intercom. The International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations plans a resolution boycotting flights to any country that fails to release a skyjacked plane within 48 hours, but of the airlines flying to Cuba, only Mexicana, Iberia and Air Canada have I.F.A.L.P.A. pilots. In any case, the Cubans have so far been careful to free skyjacked planes and passengers after no more than an overnight delay. The airlines and electronics firms are working on weapons-detection systems to spot armed passengers during boarding. One company has developed...
OLYMPICS fans arriving in Mexico City may have picked the best time ever. True, the balmy days are marred by just a touch of smog and the brisk evenings by a faint drizzle. But the city has never looked better. The preparations, of course, were carried out a la mexicana-with the in evitable, exuberant last-minute scramble to get a job done on time. The citizens proudly feel that it was their test, and they made it. Mexico City, scrubbed, brash, vital, is as bright and gay as a piñata party...