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Helicopter loss figures seem no more reliable. As of last week, reported the U.S. command, 38 helicopters had been lost over Laos in combat and two destroyed in a mid-air collision since Feb. 8. The fact is, about 200 helicopters had been lost over Laos by week's end. The command, it seems, reports only those choppers that are totally destroyed and cannot be retrieved...
...plane to crash. Last week, however, President Nixon's proposal to put sky marshals on U.S. planes received the support of Najeeb Halaby, president of Pan American World Airways, and the U.S. Air Line Pilots Association. ∙ One nation that has been willing to risk gun fights in mid-air is Israel. Its El Al airline has probably developed the most comprehensive antihijacking system in existence. Although the Israelis refuse to reveal all details, it is known that all passengers are carefully scrutinized before boarding, and all baggage is probably Xrayed. Since skyjackers forced an El Al plane...
Carl Jung, who lived with great vigor until the age of 85, saw aging as a process of continuous inward development ("individuation"), with important psychic changes occurring right up to the time of death. "Anyone who fails to go along with life remains suspended, stiff and rigid in mid-air," Jung wrote. "That is why so many people get wooden in old age; they look back and cling to the past with a secret fear of death in their hearts. From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life...
...army doctor working on the victims. A group known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, headed by Ahmed Jebreel, a 35-year-old former army officer, quickly claimed credit for the attack. The same group also boasted three months ago of engineering the mid-air explosion of an Israel-bound Swissair jet in which 47 died. Jebreel wired Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser last week that the bus attack was revenge for the Israeli air raid at Bahr el Bakr. But Al-Fatah, largest of the Arab commando organizations, criticized the guerrilla group, and declared...
...days after the Indianapolis disaster, the very same flight-Allegheny 853-came perilously close to another mid-air collision with a light plane while departing Greater Cincinnati Airport. Fortunately, in this instance the unidentified light plane suddenly showed up on airport radar when the two craft were within five to ten seconds of crashing-just enough time to warn the jetliner away...