Word: towers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweetness and light at Beirut airport. A gunman aboard the plane had told the Beirut tower that if there was no progress in the negotiations by the next morning, the terrorists would order the explosives- laden jetliner to be flown to Israel and blown up over Tel Aviv. An Amal militiaman scolded the gunman and ordered him "not to make any such threats." There were reports from Israel that had the hijackers tried to take off again in the TWA plane, the Israelis would have fired at the 727's tail section from a missile boat offshore, hoping to incapacitate...
...gunman later requested that three toothbrushes, toothpaste and soap be sent to the plane for Testrake, Zimmermann and the third crewman, First Officer Phillip Maresca of Salt Lake City. Every day, the hijackers called the control tower for food and newspapers, as if ordering from room service. "What's for lunch?" they asked. "Cheese and jam sandwiches," the tower replied on one occasion. "Oh, no," the hijacker complained. "No more cheese and jam sandwiches. We want meat, something with meat." Airport authorities reportedly sent 80 portions of chicken and rice, 80 salads and 80 coconut cakes to the plane. Later...
...from the scene, the gunman shot at him, then turned his AK-47 assault rifle on a crowd of journalists and photographers on the balcony of the terminal, firing over their heads. "What is this? Are you playing tricks with us?" an angry hijacker later demanded of the control-tower operator. "I want all newsmen out. One has filmed me shooting. I want that film confiscated and sent to the plane...
...Sunday morning, the crew of Air India Flight 182 made a routine call to the control tower at Ireland's Shannon Airport. The flight, which originated in Toronto, was going just as planned. The plane was cruising at 33,000 feet above the North Atlantic, about 120 miles southwest of the Irish coast. The tower gave clearance to proceed to London's Heathrow Airport for refueling, and the crew promised to report back before landing. Then, just six minutes later, the Boeing 747 suddenly disappeared from radar screens. "One second it was there, and the next it was gone," said...
...image of the mystery man gained further dimension as neighbors of the Stammers from their days at Serra Negra began to speak up. Some remembered how he would climb to the top of an eight-foot observation tower on the farm and scan the horizon through binoculars. Basilio Silotto, a farm worker, reported that Pedro had told him once that Hitler was a great man. When a defective person was born, the old European confided to Silotto in tones reminiscent of the Auschwitz researcher, he would soon vanish...