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...minutes off the ground when a slightly built man in a baseball cap, brandishing a hunting knife, wrestled a stewardess into the seat next to him and demanded that the plane go to Cuba. The captain of the Boeing 727 dutifully changed course. Across the aisle, Miami Cargo Shipper Dewey Parker silently signaled to Blake Bell, the passenger in the window seat next to the hostage stewardess. "On the count of three, he grabbed the hijacker's right arm and I grabbed his left," recounted Parker, "and then we got assistance." Tied up in seat belts and an oxygen...
...committee partially composed of at least one teammate and members of the standing committee on Athletics will choose the next shipper of the team, Reardon said...
...like bad vintages. They don't happen every year, but often enough to offend good taste. In 1974 the Bordeaux region was rocked by the news that the respected firm of Cruse et Fils Freres had sold cheap Midi reds under more expensive Bordeaux labels. In 1979 Burgundy Shipper Bernard-Noël Grivelet was accused of peddling an inferior blend under the finest names of the Cote d'Or. Now comes a 1980 scandal that may dwarf them both...
...maritime swindle in history. Shell International Trading, which had purchased the 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil aboard the Salem, has filed the largest cargo claim ever received at Lloyd's: $56.3 million. Shell has also filed a suit against the Salem's owner, a Lebanese-American shipper named Frederick Soudan, charging that he purposely ordered the ship sunk two weeks after 170,000 tons of its oil were secretly unloaded in South Africa. Because of the magnitude of the alleged fraud, Scotland Yard has entered the investigation, and as a Greek shipping executive in London observed last...
...Neal has been moving to dismantle this structure. The ice has abolished a rule preventing companies that haul their own goods-Sears or Safeway, for example-from picking up cargo from other shippers. Partly because this rule forced company trucks to return empty from hauls between warehouse and factory or store, one of every ten truck-miles driven in the U.S. has been "deadheaded." O'Neal has further decreed that organizers of a new truck line need prove only that they will "serve a useful public purpose" to be allowed to operate. He has also scrapped an ancient...