Word: planeload
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...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...
...Amsterdam, Dutch police seized a planeload of Czech-made arms flown from Prague and allegedly intended for the outlawed Irish Republican Army to use in its campaign to oust British troops from Ulster. They also arrested the Belgian pilot of the charter aircraft and an American who was charged with importing arms without a license...
...cost to members of at least six months standing. Average tab: $230. Most members of teachers, lawyers, fraternal or many other organizations qualify, and an ingenious travel agent can usually find some charter flight for almost anyone. Organizations with at least 40 travelers, but less than a full planeload can reserve space on regularly scheduled airlines for $277 per seat under a plan called "group affinity fares." GROUP INCLUSIVE TOURS are 14-to 21-day travel packages put together by airlines and travel agents. The group must include at least 15 people, but these are usually assembled by the packager...