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...autonomy in the East, a Bangladesh government in exile has been working from inside India. Last week its leaders flew home from Calcutta's Dum Dum Airport in an Indian air force Caribou, one of the few aircraft that could land on Dacca airport's bombed-out runway. Acting President Syed Nazrul Islam, Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed and Foreign Minister Khandikar Moshtaque were wildly welcomed by 100,000 Daccans who had flocked to the airport to meet them. One of the incoming government's first acts was to pay a call on the wife of Sheik Mujib...
...chauffeur-driven BMW, he set off for the airport, frequently hitting 110 m.p.h. on the straightaways. Over his car radio, Figueres dictated his detailed instructions for "terrorizing the terrorists," who were members of the Nicaraguan National Liberation Front. Two hundred armed civilian guardsmen should surround the plane. The runway should be blocked, the plane's tires deflated. Don Pepe repeatedly shouted into the radio, "Boys, this...
Forty workers died and more than 100 others were injured when they were caught by air strikes as they attempted to repair huge bomb craters in the Dacca airport runway. India declared a temporary moratorium on air strikes late last week so that the runway could be repaired and 400 U.N. relief personnel and other foreigners could be flown out. It was repaired, but the Pakistanis changed their mind and refused to allow the U.N.'s evacuation aircraft to land at Dacca, leaving U.N. personnel trapped as potential hostages. The International Red Cross declared Dacca's Intercontinental Hotel and nearby...
Also waiting, behind a steel blast fence not far from the plane, were two FBI sharpshooters armed with .308 Norma Magnum rifles with telescopic sights. Their instructions: "If you get an opportunity for a clean shot, take it." Two other FBI agents approached Obergfell on the runway and tried to persuade him to give himself up. A priest offered to have the Catholic Church buy him a ticket to Italy. Obergfell grew tense, still clutching the girl and waiting for the 707 to taxi to where he stood. "Get that goddamned plane out here!" he shouted...
Calculated Risk. As the plane approached, Obergfell moved toward the boarding ladder that had already been placed on the runway. He was holding the stewardess so close that twice she stepped on his foot. "What are you trying to pull?" he demanded. Then, for a moment, he pulled three steps away from her. FBI Agent Kenneth Lovin, who had been tracking Obergfell in his hairline sight from about 75 yds. away, fired. The first bullet slammed into the skyjacker's right shoulder and came out the left. He dropped to the ground, scrabbling to reach his pistol, and Lovin...