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Whatever the courts rule, the cartel's shenanigans are certain to refuel congressional demands that the nation's oil companies divest themselves of their nonpetroleum activities. At the least, the trials will give yet more ammunition to oil-industry critics who charge that some of the world's largest and most powerful corporations think they have become a law unto themselves...
During the first refueling stop, at Rome, Schumann casually dropped four unlit cigars out the cockpit window. Authorities correctly interpreted this signal to mean that four terrorists were aboard. Other Lufthansa flights were able to contact Charlie Echo and pass along messages from Frankfurt control. Near Greece, a Lufthansa pilot reported that Charlie Echo was preparing to land at Nicosia in Cyprus. Back came an urgent message, "Here is Frankfurt. Establish contact with 181 and let him know that Nicosia-out of order, repeat out of order. He should try for Larnaca or Akrotiri." When the plane touched down...
...completed Varieze, were trailered to Wisconsin. Others came in on a wing and a prayer. Michael Murphy, a TWA mechanic who built his sky-cycle from a photograph of a 1912 wood-frame plane, flew up from St. Louis with his wife, stopping every 50 miles to refuel; Gail Turner, a schoolteacher who spent a year building her shocking-pink Fly Baby in her living room, took five days to fly it east from Belmont, Calif...
...insist that they are more bored by Soap than worried about it. Says an NBC executive: "It's kids'porno: Laverne and Shirley, Three's Company-the end of a trend." CBS President Robert Wussler is rumbling about the possibility that Soap will refuel criticism of prime time programming just when the ruckus over violence is dying down. But the Cyclops eye is not blinking. Says one CBS programmer: "If it works, the whole industry will have a Soap in five months...
After a stop in New York City to refuel, pick up a new flight crew and 14 more passengers, the plane flew on to the Canaries. There was no grumbling when word came that they would land temporarily at Tenerife, but the early-afternoon weather there was disappointing?cool, windy and foggy. The Clipper pulled into a holding area off one end of the runway. Some passengers stood at an open door to take photos of KLM 4805 as it refueled just ahead of them...