Word: pans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Late. The gunmen then ran out onto the flight field. One group of the terrorists headed toward Pan American's Flight 110, which was preparing to depart for Beirut and Teheran with 59 passengers and ten crew members on board...
...From the Pan Am plane, the terrorists ran down the tarmac to a West German Lufthansa 737 jet that had already been commandeered by the second group of guerrillas. On board, besides the pilot and three other Lufthansa crew members, were ten hostages who had been rounded up in the terminal and outside on the tarmac. An Italian customs guard had resisted the terrorists and been shot dead outside the Lufthansa jet. At 1:32 p.m., only 41 minutes after the first shot had been fired, the plane took off with the crew, hostages and five guerrillas aboard; other terrorists...
...cutbacks vary widely from route to route, but all major cities will lose at least some flights (see chart). Several smaller cities are about to lose their scheduled service altogether, if the Civil Aeronautics Board, as expected, approves the lines' plans. Pan American has petitioned to drop from its schedule all flights out of Washington/Baltimore Friendship Airport, Philadelphia, New Orleans and nine foreign cities, including Stockholm and Oslo...
Feydeau was never restrained by the polite inhibition that one cannot kid the tonsils off a person who stutters, and his plays abound in incidental characters whom nature has shortchanged. He was a quintessential absurdist. With dead pan verbal incongruity a character may say, "Just because my life is ruined doesn't mean I can't act like a gentle man. After all, life isn't everything...
...singularly varied collection of rulers that gathered in Algiers last week in the name of Arab unity. Among the representatives of the 16 nations who assembled for the sixth pan-Arab summit since 1964 were Marxist revolutionaries and Moslem kings, sheiks in flowing robes and guerrillas in commando uniform. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat showed up in a neatly tailored suit of banker's blue; Saudi Arabia's King Feisal wore a richly brown bisht with gold trim. While most of the delegates flew into Algiers' Dar el Beida airport, where they were greeted with 21-gun salutes...