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...second time in nine days, a skyjacker has demanded passage to New York City. On Feb. 11, a 20-year-old Ethiopian armed with a starter's pistol pirated a Lufthansa jet to J.F.K. Airport, only to be promptly arrested. Last Saturday, a man tentatively identified as an Azeri commandeered a Russian jetliner on a flight from Siberia to St. Petersburg and demanded to be flown to New York. Persuaded to believe that the aircraft did not have enough fuel to cross the Atlantic, the hijacker agreed to stop in Tallinn, Estonia, then Stockholm, Sweden, where he finally surrendered...
With electricity still out, most homes empty and phones out of order in many neighborhoods, the locals have been arming themselves against the influx of thieves. Cynthia Hitt's husband bought her a .22-cal. pistol for Christmas; she bought him a .30-30 rifle. "What if something happens? You can't scream for a neighbor, and until recently there weren't any phones to call the cops," she says...
...What about you?" Artyom asks. "Do you still believe?" The man's laugh is short, like a hiccup, revealing two gold-capped teeth. "I don't know what to believe anymore. Sometimes I think I should grab all the money I have, buy a pistol and take it to the Kremlin...
...There were people on Washington Ave. who said a good part of 1992 children were sleeping under their beds because someone was going around shooting a 22-caliber pistol," Cyr said...
...PROgram on the Telemundo Spanish- language network, was after a human-interest story. They got a horror show instead. In North Lauderdale, Florida, Emilio Nunez confronted his ex-wife Maritza at their daughter's gravesite, blaming her for the girl's suicide. As ! the camera rolled, Nunez pulled a pistol from his pocket and shot Maritza 12 times...