Word: planeload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dave O'Connell, the Provisional I.R.A.'s political-military swing man, took Maria along as interpreter on an arms-buying trip to Europe. Their mission began as Irish low comedy and ended in fiasco. In Amsterdam their cover was blown, their planeload of Czech bazookas, rocket launchers and hand grenades was impounded, and Maria and Dave lammed out just ahead of the cops. She returned to Dublin a celebrity-too much so for the taste of Sean MacStiofain, the transplanted Englishman who was then the Provisional I.R.A.'s chief of staff. Maria McGuire hated the dour, puritanical...
Just how easily those arrangements could become enmeshed in expressions of continuing enmity became apparent at the start of the week, when the first planeload of delegates from the Provisional Revolutionary Government arrived. South Vietnamese authorities promptly demanded that they fill out customs forms. They promptly refused to do so, since that would imply recognition of the Saigon government. For 20 hours, they sat aboard the plane. By morning, the Poles and the Americans had persuaded the South Vietnamese to waive the formality, and the Communist delegates disembarked. In the afternoon, the performance was repeated when 90 delegates arrived from...
...become a universal nightmare. Terrorists strike without warning. Innocent persons-a diplomat, a businessman, a planeload of tourists, a team of Olympic athletes-suddenly become hostages, pawns in a parochial struggle that may be blazing half a world away. The "nonnegotiable" demands are issued-for the release of political prisoners, for money, or for passage to another country. Lights go on in the ministries, and the agonizing begins. Is the safety of the hostages to be secured at any cost? Or must their lives be risked to discourage other terrorists and save future victims...
When asked once what he thought the U.S. could do to end the war in Viet Nam, Humorist Art Buchwald replied: "Just fly a planeload of German and Japanese bankers to Hanoi, and let them explain to the North Vietnamese leaders what happens to a country that loses a war to the U.S." Buchwald's fancy has a solid underpinning in fact. Under the Marshall Plan and a similarly massive rebuilding program in Asia, West Germany and Japan have enjoyed dizzying industrial growth and have flooded the U.S. market with Nikons and Leicas, Sonys and Telefunkens, Toyotas and Volkswagens...
...that point, President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (formerly known as the Congo) decided to help Micombero by airlifting to Burundi a planeload of veterans from his own army. Among other things, Mobutu wanted to get rid of a handful of onetime Congolese rebels-the notorious Simbas-who had paddled across Lake Tanganyika and joined in the fighting on the Hutu side. Mobutu's tough troops enabled the loyalist forces to put down the rebellion. Last week the Burundi radio announced that all leaders of the aborted coup had been captured-and appealed to the world for food...