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...course laid out verbally by Robert Trautmann Jr., 37, a Laredo, Texas, developer. At one chilling point, one of the original two hijackers swaggered into the bunker-like room in West Beirut and said, "Hi, do you know me?" When no one answered, he waved a silver pistol in their faces and said, "Now do you remember me?" They assured him that they did. Once, Brown told the Boston Herald, "our guard fell asleep in our room with his pistol right there. But there were other guards outside, and two steel doors, and more to get to the surface, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roach Races and Russian Roulette * | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...bosses or structure, the Marielitos operate as loose bands of conscienceless predators, uneducated and wild but also shrewd. One of their first bold strokes: dressed as police SWAT teams, they began invading the homes of Miami drug dealers. Besides stealing cash and dope, the raiders made a point of pistol-whipping, torturing and occasionally raping their victims, who, given their business, could not call police. Last year two drug dealers shot two Dade SWAT team members, thinking they were Marielitos in disguise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Parasites on Their Own People | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

There were some indications that the interviews were carefully stage-managed. Jimmy Dell Palmer in captivity was pictured playfully waving a pistol in front of an Amal guard. After he was freed last Wednesday, in advance of his comrades, he said he had argued against being photographed in that pose but yielded to persistent demands from his captors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last, the Agony Is Over | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...Agence France Presse and ABC News were invited by militiamen to walk out onto the tarmac to have a chat with TWA Captain John Testrake, 57, pilot of the ill-fated Flight 847. He sat in the cockpit, looking fit but somewhat in need of a shave, with a pistol- toting gunman at his side. Not far away was the hulk of a Jordanian airliner destroyed by Shi'ite terrorists a week earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hijack Victims: We Are Continuously Surrounded | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...certain how the hijackers of TWA Flight 847 spirited their 9-mm pistol and two grenades aboard the plane. Ali Atwa, a member of the Shi'ite team who did not board and was subsequently arrested in Athens, told officials that the weapons had been wrapped in fiber glass to avoid detection. Security experts, who say that fiber glass cannot foil X-ray machines, believe it is more likely that the arms had been planted on the plane by an accomplice, perhaps an airport worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making the Sky Secure | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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