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During the early-morning hours the plane landed in Toronto, where the hijackers refused the offer of $500,000 and renewed their demand for $10 million. As the plane sped away from Toronto, this time bound for Knoxville, Tenn., Passenger Fortson had a mild seizure. Also the hijackers got into the liquor supply and drank more than 40 of the small airline bottles. By now the jetliner was being tracked by a Southern Airways Learjet and a DC-9, as well as a Navy Reserve plane with FBI agents aboard. Over Tennessee the prospects darkened; the hijackers began threatening...
...Crimson's third goal came as the result of tight defense at midfield, an excellent individual effort by Papagianis, and a sure shot by Vujovic. After weaving his way through defenders heading down the sideline, Papagianis sped by the fulloack, turned the corner and fed Vujovic, who put it away...
This day, shortly before the crippled plane landed, Oufkir had been summoned to the telephone at the airport control tower. What was said over the phone was not revealed. But shortly after the King, with three of his four children, had sped away to his summer palace in a small black Renault-16, a Moroccan air force jet made four passes at the field, shooting up cars, scattering the honor guard, killing eight people and wounding 47. But once again, Hassan had escaped totally unscathed...
...hand to confirm the break, and a nurse was standing by to accompany the patient on the flight to Chicago. Notified by radio, the Chicago fire department sent a helicopter to meet Barr's flying ambulance at a small airstrip on Chicago's outskirts and sped him to Wesley Memorial, where a team of doctors waited. Though paralyzed, Barr survived...
...boxers, Eboli apparently was lured to a post-midnight meeting far from his Fort Lee, N.J., home by other mobsters on a pretext of discussing some urgent gang business. His burly chauffeur, Joseph Sternfeld, told police that Eboli was approaching his waiting car after the meeting when a truck sped past, shots erupted from it, and Eboli fell dead. Sternfeld said he did not see the killers. But he did not explain the contradictory fact that there were bloodstains on the inside of Eboli's car, and authorities held him as a witness under $250,000 bail. Eboli, freshly...