Word: takeoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More Bizarre. Many of the new precautions were introduced after last Feb. 18, when four Arab terrorists from Lebanon began shooting up an El Al jetliner as it taxied toward a takeoff in Zurich. Last week three of the attackers were sentenced in a Swiss court in Winterthur to twelve years' hard labor. A 23-year-old Israeli guard who leaped from the plane and gunned down the fourth was acquitted of murder. Terrorists have also taken aim at El Al on the ground. Israeli airline and shipping offices in London, Bonn and Athens have been bombed in recent...