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During the early-morning hours the plane landed in Toronto, where the hijackers refused the offer of $500,000 and renewed their demand for $10 million. As the plane sped away from Toronto, this time bound for Knoxville, Tenn., Passenger Fortson had a mild seizure. Also the hijackers got into the liquor supply and drank more than 40 of the small airline bottles. By now the jetliner was being tracked by a Southern Airways Learjet and a DC-9, as well as a Navy Reserve plane with FBI agents aboard. Over Tennessee the prospects darkened; the hijackers began threatening...
Rage. Tuller's associates at the U.S. Commerce Department were dumbfounded. They considered him to be a mild-mannered humanitarian who worked hard to help blacks in his $26,436-a-year job with the Office of Minority Business Enterprise. Their first reaction was that the work had been too much for him. Said his boss, John Jenkins, a black: "The frustrations build up in a man and can break him down. The system grinds you down." In addition, Tuller had a severe case of diabetes. Last month he submitted his resignation on grounds of ill health...
Some experts who have studied hijackings also favor a relatively mild attitude toward terrorists because they feel that in many cases toughness only makes a situation worse (see BEHAVIOR). Most pilots have little sympathy with that view, although generally they do not take as extreme a line as the Israelis. But they believe that the problem can only be solved if all nations agree that skyjacking is a crime and pledge to extradite or prosecute offenders. "As long as there are countries granting these people asylum," says Lufthansa Pilot Heino Caesar, "the problem will be with...
...prices are exactly the same as Brim's, and both brands are "97% caffeine-free." Even more curiously, Sanka is made by none other than General Foods, which is pushing its new Brim. GF officials insist that Brim is aimed at people who want a heartier flavor than mild-tasting Sanka and that the new brand will not drain sales from the old one. Despite these assurances, the people at GF who are responsible for Sanka's success have strong grounds for coffee nerves, and investors will be interested to see whether internecine warfare in the marketplace will...
...home of a general of the French army, the friends find themselves in a strange room that seems to have been hastily arranged. Suddenly, sharp shafts of light appear from the ceiling. The guests turn in their seats, a curtain rises, and a theater audience stares at them with mild anticipation. Subjected to the same kind of vaguely contemptuous scrutiny they usually employ themselves, the guests, as one, make for the wings...