Word: ola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of TWA 840, most activity focused on freeing two Israeli passengers who were detained in Damascus. The U.S. brought diplomatic pressure on Syria, and TWA President F. C. Wiser Jr. personally flew to Damascus. The most dramatic gesture came from Ola Forsberg, president of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations, whose 44,000 members fly for nearly all of the non-Communist world's airlines. Unless the Israelis were freed, Forsberg promised to call, with two weeks' notice, a 24-hour global strike. There is some question whether the members would authorize a strike, however...
...Ola spasta, ola kapsta [Smash all, burn all]." The notion obviously strikes a chord in the Greek soul. As viewers of the film Never on Sunday will recall, tipplers in the portside dives of Piraeus punctuate their drinking contests by breaking glassware, plates and occasionally furniture. In Athens' best clubs, people like Aristotle Onassis have been known to pay as much as $700 in damages for a single noisy evening of crockery tossing...
...THERE, in that high and mountainous land, is the land of God." The date was Sept. 12, 1504, the speaker was Christopher Columbus, and the occasion was his fourth and final departure from the island he discovered in 1492. Columbus named it La Isla Española because it reminded him of Spain. For the Spaniards and French who followed him, for the Indians they slaughtered, for the Negro slaves they imported, and for anyone within a bullet's range last week, Hispaniola was more like hell on earth than the warm, jasmine-scented paradise it might be. Last...
Christopher Columbus was delighted with his discovery, and wrote of the mountainous green Caribbean island he called La Isla Española: "So lovable, so tractable, so peaceable are these people. They love their neighbors as themselves, and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied by a smile...
...This is the most pleasant place on earth," said Christopher Columbus shortly after he set up his New World headquarters on Española, the Caribbean island now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Then, according to the legend, he added: "Here I will be buried." And there in 1898 his remains were enshrined in a new marble tomb in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, which is now called Ciudad Trujillo. That same year the navigator's descendants also buried his remains back in Spain in the family plot in Seville. The question ever since: Which tomb...