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...various watch lists, FBI officials tell TIME. As customs analysts frantically researched passenger backgrounds, U.S. fighter jets tailed the plane, intending to shoot it down if a suicide hijacker took control. After being held and questioned for several hours on a distant tarmac at Dulles International Airport, all 247 passen gers were cleared. --By Sally B. Donnelly, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon
...sense, the airlines have been buffeted by their own success. Airline revenues have more than tripled during the past decade, and the industry expects to transport 300 million passen gers a year on domestic flights by 1975, compared with 125 million last year. Gearing themselves to the crush of expected business, most major carriers have been busily adding new flights to their schedules and laying out huge sums for stretched jet transports, jum bo jets and supersonic aircraft. In the process, they have found themselves trapped in an ever worsening cost-profit squeeze...
...Passen stationed himself in front of White House this afternoon, with other student peace from around the country, who began sidewalk sit-in at noon. The students they would stay the night and try sit-in inside the White House Monday...
...France's Flight 136 from Paris landed at Tel Aviv's Lydda International Airport and discharged a dozen passen gers. One of them, a balding man in dark glasses, made straight for the arrival hut, displayed a Canadian passport, No. 4-328384. Name: Beras Goble. Age: 72. Occupation: Engineer. Permanent Residence: Montreal. The police and customs passed him on quickly...
...world. First off, he bluffed his way into the colonial service as a sanitation officer. Caught with a high official's wife, he landed gracefully on his feet as the manager of a copra plantation, soon bought a little schooner and took to running freight and passen gers along the coast, running "indentured laborers," i.e., slaves, to the gold fields. Twice he tried for a strike in the gold fields, twice he failed...