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COLOMBO. Sri Lanka--A chartered jetliner carrying 246 Moslem pilgrims home from Mecca crashed, split apart and burned yesterday a mile from Colombo's airport while being guided down in a severe thunderstorm...
...last week for the various unscheduled small-plane commuter lines, chartered aircraft and "air taxis" that are adding to major-airport congestion. Their pilots will henceforth have to maintain full airline-transport-pilot certificates, and their planes must carry a ground-proximity warning system, cockpit voice recorder and either thunderstorm detection equipment or weather radar...
...When at last Vance turned to Carter and said, 'I think we now have it,' nobody cheered or said anything memorable. Everybody could feel what had happened even as a thunderstorm broke outside Aspen Lodge. Carter may never be able to duplicate it?but, again, he just might...
SUNDAY, SEPT. 17. Thunderstorm deluges Camp David on final, decisive day. U.S. official delivers Carter message to Begin outlining U.S. views on Jerusalem, rejecting Israel's claim that East Jerusalem, seized in 1967, is part of Israel. Begin blows up. He hands back letter, declaring: "I'd rather cut off my right hand than sign that." Carter decides to postpone all reference to Jerusalem. The outcome is now up to Egypt. Carter meets one last time in climactic negotiations with Sadat. At 4:30 p.m. U.S. Aide Hamilton Jordan looks up to see Carter flashing thumbs-up signal through window...
Their arrival was heralded by a brief but violent thunderstorm that ended just as the group arrived at the steps of the Capitol around...