Word: storme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...copy from a friend at a North Carolina newspaper. "I was about halfway through reading it when I started crying," recalls Jaynes. "I thought, if I'm crying, this letter should reach daylight." His instincts proved correct. "Margie's words, as eloquent as they were, brought about a storm of response," he says. "She told me later that she'd been offered new glasses and teeth enough to outfit the state of North Carolina...
...STORM RISING, Clancy 1 3 WANDERLUST, Steel 2 4 LAST OF THE BREED, L'Amour 4 5 A MATTER OF HONOR, Archer...
Piecing together a clear picture of precisely what happened during the closing minutes of the incident was complicated by the inconsistency of Pakistani authorities in explaining what they had done. At first they implied that once the aircraft lights had failed, they had ordered their commandos to storm the plane. The Reagan Administration immediately announced that the Pakistanis had handled the situation "boldly and decisively" -- a statement intended mainly to demonstrate Washington's satisfaction with Pakistan's cooperation...
Winston Churchill said that in international affairs "to jaw-jaw is better than to war-war." That is normally the case in dealing with hijackers. Says Dr. David Hubbard, a consultant on terrorism to the Federal Aviation Administration: "The record shows that when commandos storm aircraft, the number of people killed increases. If the terrorists don't kill them, the security forces do." While the hijacking in Karachi last week and one in Malta last December both ended violently, several have been resolved by negotiations. The outcome of some recent hijackings...
...shooting spree before Pakistani commandos storm the craft...