Word: pan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force. The President was looking forward to the last day of his San Clemente vacation when word of the first two hijackings arrived. Flying back to Washington in Air Force One, Nixon received another bulletin. Pan Am's hijacked 747 had been blown up on the tarmac in Cairo. The President's immediate reaction: "Were the people...
Meanwhile, another aerial drama was under way. Back in Amsterdam, the two "Senegalese" who had been denied passage by El Al had bought first-class tickets on Pan American's Flight 93, a 747. As Clipper 93 taxied toward its takeoff position, ground controllers?whom El Al had alerted about the attempted hijacking of its craft and about the suspicious passengers it had bumped off its flight and onto Pan American?radioed a warning to Captain Jack Priddy. He halted the 747 and walked through the passenger compartment looking for the pair. When he finally found them, they readily agreed...
Therein lie the liabilities and virtues of this rich, contradictory work. Smith, a resourceful performer, has to work solely with her face; she does not get much aid from the script. Nor does Nicholson. Is Robert running away from excellence, or from the fear of failure? In one long pan, Producer-Director Bob Rafelson tries to supply an answer. Robert plays a Chopin prelude in an attempt to seduce his brother's protégée (Susan Anspach). Up moves the camera to a wall of pictures. There are the young siblings, smiling, optimistic, untouched. On an adjacent...
Nasser's Friend. While Gaddafi has been discriminating against foreigners at home, he has been promoting pan-Arabism abroad. As an ardent supporter of Nasser, he has pushed himself into the inner councils of the Arab leaders. Two Arab high-level meetings have been held in Tripoli over the past three months. Gaddafi has publicly denounced...
Despite his fervent pan-Arabism, however, Gaddafi is careful to maintain Libya's assertive independence. Though he has bought more than 100 tanks from Russia, he has refused a Soviet request to establish a naval base at Tobruk that would serve Russia's Mediterranean fleet. British advisers still instruct Libya's small navy, and a dozen Libyan pilots are being trained in France to fly the 110 Mirage jet fighters that Gaddafi bought from Paris. The French may be asked to run the former U.S. air force base near Tripoli...