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...suddenly last week as he passed along that seemingly routine flight clearance to a visiting Swiss pilot. The controller could hardly be blamed for the unprofessional display of emotion. The jet that he was routing was a Swiss DC-9 on charter to the International Red Cross. Shortly before takeoff, a convoy of 18 Israeli ambulances with red Star of David markings drew alongside the jet, owned by a charter company called Balair. Slowly, in some cases painfully, 44 men walked or were carried aboard. Those on stretchers wore green pajamas and were wrapped in gray blankets with their hospital...
...done, but if anybody can do it, he can," said Joe Sisco to the Pakistani Ambassador to Washington. The lanky Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, like the 38 other members of Henry Kissinger's entourage, was nervously waiting for takeoff in the VIP lounge at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. It was 8 o'clock in the morning, but one by one the ambassadors of Iran, Morocco and Jordan and the Chinese liaison officer-all representing countries that Kissinger would visit in his twelve-day round-the-world journey-arrived...
...strong-headed of the two. During World War II, for instance, Sadat was jailed as a political subversive after the failure of two absurdly bungled plots to smuggle a former Egyptian general over to the Germans. First a getaway car broke down, then an escape plane crashed on takeoff. Along with two Nazi spies who were his accomplices, Sadat was betrayed by a belly dancer and arrested. Israelis frequently cite Sadat's pro-German sympathies during World War II as proof of his implacable anti-Jewish feelings. Actually, Sadat collaborated with the Nazis primarily because they were the enemies...
Jenkins' 1973 Chevrolet Vega does not look much different from the one that Mom drives to the supermarket, except for the hood-mounted air scoop and an outrigger in back to keep the front of the car from rising too high on takeoff. But Jenkins and his crew of six mechanics make sure that the resemblance is only paint-deep. To prepare the car for its ordeals, the team marinates its body in an acid bath to eat away 120 Ibs. of excess weight. The hood and rear deck are replaced with lightweight Fiberglas panels. His $70,000 engine...
...Bill Braman, a carpet wholesaler from Minneapolis, and his wife Ginny have their 12-ft. bamboo pole set up, aflutter with a weathered Vikings pennant. It marks their "Outside Stadium Club"-a takeoff on the posh inside Stadium Club for wealthy ticket holders. "Only difference," says Ginny, "is that they have a toilet and we don't." The Bramans, pioneers of Minnesota tailgating, have been throwing parties since 1961. They are traditionalists with rules for their party: no gambling, no chewing out the players after a bad game, no hard liquor. The restrictions do not deter Vikings players from...