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...between the blundering ways of man and the sometimes harsh, sometimes subtle efficiency with which a natural environment functions when left to its own devices. As the Mowat character, Charles Martin Smith plays with ingratiating innocence, stubborn and plucky. His art, like that of Ballard's cameraman, Hiro Narita, lies in understatement that does not imply dispassion. Ballard and his masterly crew of film makers have reimagined a corner of the natural world, metaphorically connecting the cold spaces and indifferent silences of a vast land with the heated struggle for existence taking place closer to the ground, nearer...
...what ground control's commands were. But they must have been succinct. Within 4 sec., Pilot 805 says, "Roger," and zooms after the jetliner. He then reports that the jumbo is slowing down. Seven minutes earlier, Flight 007 had requested permission from Japanese controllers at Tokyo's Narita airport to climb from an altitude of 33,000 ft. to 35,000 ft., and a climb speed is slower than a cruise speed. However, seconds later, Pilot 805 reports that the airliner is at an altitude of 10,000 km (33,000 ft.), indicating that either...
...hardly the opening Japanese officials had envisioned for their country's new $2.4 billion international airport at Narita, 40 miles northeast of Tokyo. But then, tensions being what they were, there was a measure of relief simply because nothing catastrophic occurred when the first aircraft, a Japan Air Lines cargo plane from Los Angeles, finally touched down on the runway early last week. Within two days all 33 airlines that will use Narita had moved into their terminal quarters, and an average of 150 flights a day were landing and taking off at the new facility, which replaces...
...long run. A 1,500-man permanent security force is planned, but it will be far from adequate if the current tempo of protest continues. Beyond protecting the 1,360-acre airport itself, authorities have to provide special antisabotage protection for jet fuel and other supplies transported to Narita from the outside. Then there is an expansion plan calling for construction of two runways to supplement the one now in use-requiring the purchase of still more private farm land...
...needed for the airport refused to sell and the government confiscated their land. That highhandedness, though achieved through legal channels, caused a storm of protest and quickly brought the youthful rebels to the farmers' cause. As air pollution, noise and other environmental issues acquired clout in the 1970s, Narita became the ritual target of militants with almost any quality-of-life complaint...