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...final approach to Cairo, the demolition expert asked Stewardess Augusta Schneider for some matches. Handing him a pack, she cautioned as a good stewardess should: "You can't smoke now. We are about to land." The guerrilla had no intention of smoking. Instead, while the giant Clipper was still 100 feet off the ground, he lit the fuse to his explosives. As the fuse began to burn, the hijackers told the passengers: "You have eight minutes." But Captain Priddy, captive in his cockpit, knew none of this. Landing in early-morning blackness at an unfamiliar airport, he might have elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Drama of the Desert: The Week of the Hostages | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...hour aloft, as the passengers were finishing breakfast, Abed Said Malhas and his pretty companion Siham Saadi sprang from their first class seats and forced a stewardess at pistol point toward the cockpit. In the tourist cabin, the other four terrorists whipped out guns and told the passengers: "This is a hijack. We have a plan. We will land in Athens. If our conditions are met, no one will be hurt." The hijackers' conditions: the immediate release of seven Arab terrorists currently in Greek prisons, or the plane would be blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Act of Patriotism | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

...armed?" asked the frightened Lufthansa stewardess, noting a menacing bulge under the passenger's jacket. He was, and the captain had to be summoned before Franz Josef Strauss would give up his loaded automatic. "I carry it because I've been under threat for weeks," explained Strauss, formerly West Germany's Minister of Finance. After receiving a warning that "the bullet's already in the barrel," he plans to draw first in case of attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 18, 1970 | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...husbands half envy Robert, their wives like to picture him pining away in unrequited loneliness. Far from it. In the bachelor's make-out paradise of New York, Robert is making out. A hilarious and deftly convincing seduction scene finds him in bed with a loquacious airline stewardess whose final act of disrobing is to doff her bellboy-style hat. As she stirs to leave the bed after a discreet blackout, Robert asks the girl where she is going. "Barcelona," she replies for one of the dozens of explosive one-word and one-line laughs that punctuate the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Fabulous | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

...second thoughts and asked for proof. They wanted to see pictures of North Korean Premier Kim II Sung and a Pyongyang newspaper, both items that are forbidden in sternly anti-Communist South Korea. After a short delay, the skyjackers saw through the ruse. "During that moment," said one stewardess later, "they were very excited and looked very fearful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Samurai Skyjackers | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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