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...final landing approach to Miami International. No one has attempted to disarm a skyjacker. A single bullet fired through the fuselage of a pressurized airliner will not necessarily result in explosive decompression, but one shot in the instrument-packed cockpit could bring disaster even if none of the crew were...
...Overnight Delay. A host of remedies, some of them far out, have been proposed. None of them are foolproof. Locking the cockpit door is a usual precaution, but a 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...
...passed a law imposing penalties ranging from 20 years in jail to death for skyjacking, but few are caught-and none has been returned by Castro. A U.S. proposal to Cuba for a regular Miami-Havana charter flight for all would-be defectors has met no response as yet. In any case, it would not satisfy the pathological urges that apparently impel most skyjackers. Last week aviation rumor had it that Castro sentences skyjackers to five years' hard labor, but that is simply not the case. A few have been detained for extended questioning, and two are in psychiatric...
...days following Palach's suicide. They included a 23-year-old Brno locksmith who burned himself in front of a memorial to Palach; a 24-year-old Czechoslovak serving time for robbery; and a 35-year-old Austrian dairy worker who had just been dismissed from his job. None apparently acted from political motives, and several had previous records of suicide attempts. Local authorities could only speculate that they thought they could somehow achieve Palach's martyrdom by duplicating his death...
...does not take long to realize that old Budgie is none other than God himself, posing this time as a wise, lovable friend to the mad and the innocent. Robson's message is that they would be just as well off without him. Indifferent to their suffering, he shuffles on backward, blinking at sunbeams and thinking thoughts like: "Each speck was a world just like ours and our world was only another speck dancing in someone else's old barn...