Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indian Salesman Hussain Sahfi, his business suit stained with blood, still seemed in shock last week as he uttered those words. Just before dawn last Friday, Pan American World Airways Flight 73 had touched down at Pakistan's Karachi International Airport on a scheduled, 21-hour flight from Bombay to Frankfurt and New York. Eighteen hours later, a few minutes before 10 p.m. Friday, the 747 jumbo jet still stood on the tarmac, but by then at least 17 of the plane's estimated 400 passengers and crew members were dead, victims of a hijacking and a subsequent firefight. About...
...more than 15 years. Over the long term, it will probably be less vividly remembered than last year's hijacking of TWA Flight 847 to Beirut, which lasted 17 days, even though that episode resulted in the death of only one passenger, vs. at least 17 on the Pan Am jet at Karachi. But the latest hijacking was particularly dispiriting, coming as it did after months of relative calm. Gradually, many government and airline officials had convinced themselves that the stepped-up security measures taken at airports throughout much of the world, as well as President Reagan's raid...
Probably the best clue came from the Pan Am hijackers themselves, who demanded that they be flown to Cyprus to negotiate the release from prison of three of their friends and comrades. They were referring, apparently, to two Arabs and a young Briton who were sentenced to life imprisonment last year for the murder of three Israelis aboard a yacht in the port of Larnaca. The convicted trio claimed the Israelis were intelligence agents posing as tourists, a charge that Israel denied. The three were believed to be members of Force 17, the personal bodyguard of Yasser Arafat, chairman...
...indignities of age are no less painful for being suffered in the sunshine. The red label on a jar of coffee peeks from the refrigerator, an emblem of that sparkling world just outside, but the atmosphere is keyed to the humble brown mess at the bottom of his cooking pan. There must be times in this sunny town when the laughs come hard. That picture points to the prime dilemma of color reporting. Color is pretty, misery is not. Susan Meiselas followed the war against Somoza in Nicaragua. Jean-Marie Simon covered life in Guatemala during the worst years...
...Pan American World Airways sent a special plane to Karachi to pick up passengers who want to continue on to Frankfurt and then New York, airline officials said. The plane was scheduled to leave Karachi today...