Word: sibley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Skyjacking had never looked easier. Last week, a few hours after daybreak, Frank Markoe Sibley Jr., 43, of Stateline, Nev., pulled a ski mask over his face, slung an M-l rifle across the handlebars of his bicycle, and pedaled through a gap in the fence surrounding the Reno Municipal Airport-the same gap used by another hijacker three months ago. (Reno has applied for federal funds for a new fence, but has yet to receive them.) Ditching his bike, he slipped the rifle under his green field jacket, bulled his way into the line of passengers boarding a United...
...Sibley's demands were as unusual as his methods. Besides $2,000,000 in $20 and $50 bills and $8,000 worth of gold bars-the highest ransom ever demanded in the U.S.-he insisted upon items ranging from three Thompson submachine guns and 300 feet of nylon rope to ammonia inhalers, smelling salts, pep pills and sleeping pills. Once the passengers were off the plane, it flew to Vancouver, B.C. Told that that much U.S. currency was not on hand in Vancouver, Sibley ordered the plane to Seattle. En route, he handed the crew a four-page statement...
...well-disciplined, paramilitary organization fed up with Nixon's broken promises and deceit, which is clearly expressed by his secret buildup of forces in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia," began Sibley's statement. He went on to say that United Air Lines was a "major contributor to the war effort," and he threatened to destroy not only the plane he had hijacked but the entire United fleet. "It is those who support and encourage this war who should be prosecuted, not us," the hijacker wrote...
...Triad seems to be about a triangular love relationship in which a girl (Antoinette Sibley) breaks up an affair between two male homosexuals (Anthony Dowell and Wayne Eagling). The program reveals, however, that the boys are brothers. Fraternal love is admittedly difficult to convey these days, but in this short work MacMillan has compounded the problem by his cramped and largely uninteresting choreography...
...WELL THEY load me and Mark Sibley and Jack Chick--Terry Chick's brother, and somebody else, God I forget. And then they get Chick...