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DIRTY LINEN and NEWFOUNDLAND...
Hopscotch Flight. The plane had meanwhile taken off from Montreal on what was to be a hopscotch flight across the Atlantic, stopping in Gander, Newfoundland, and Iceland for fuel, escorted by a TWA Boeing 707, since the 727 lacked navigational equipment for transatlantic flight. At Gander, 35 of the hostages were released, for reasons as diverse as the one offered by a man who said his wife was about to have a baby, or that of a woman who said she would otherwise miss a bridal shower. At some of their stops, the skyjackers off loaded bundles of propaganda pamphlets...
This eccentric, evocative film is less a documentary than a cinematic diary. Two men travel to Cuba. One, named Jeff Sterling, is a wealthy businessman who has made a killing in communications, specifically in television. The other is the former Prime Minister of Newfoundland, Joseph R. Smallwood, older than Sterling by at least a couple of decades, a dedicated Socialist. For Smallwood, the trip is practically a pilgrimage; for Sterling, it is a curiosity and a challenge. While Smallwood admires Cuban schools, medical care and housing programs, Sterling grouses about forced labor and compares socialism unfavorably with the free-enterprise...
...transatlantic flight at Barbados, but the U.S. pressured that island's government to stop such military flights. The Portuguese government eventually refused to let the Cubans refuel in the Azores. Meanwhile, Ottawa has been mildly embarrassed by reports that Cuban planes landing to refuel at Gander Airport in Newfoundland are ferrying home the dead and wounded from Angola. While Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has stressed that Gander is not being used as a Cuban "staging point," Canadian officials have not gone aboard the planes to learn if the stories are true...
...journey got off to a rocky start when engine trouble grounded Wallace's chartered jet for ten hours in Newfoundland. Wallace was noticeably weary when he finally arrived in London early Monday morning. But with his usual cockiness, he drawled: "I've been up two nights now and I feel fine." He apparently wanted to demonstrate that his stamina had not been impaired by the paralysis that confines him to a wheelchair...