Word: venezuelan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...piracy is no longer the unusual crime it used to be, but one case in Venezuela last week merits dubious note. In a rare triple hijack, two Aeropostal Airlines flights and one Venezuelan Airways (Avensa) flight were seized shortly after leaving Caracas' Simon Bolivar International Airport. Eleven hijackers, believed to be members of Venezuela's Red Flag terrorist group and representing various leftist causes, got through airport security by passing themselves off as a band of musicians. They boarded the aircraft carrying grenades and automatic weapons concealed in instrument cases. No sooner had the FASTEN SEAT BELT signs...
...relatively unknown John Buckley, 61, the eldest brother of William and James, is one of three Buckley business associates cited in the complaint. John has devoted his career to carrying on the enterprises that grew out of the lucrative Venezuelan oil ventures of the family patriarch, William Sr., who died in 1958. Also cited by the SEC were Benjamin Heath, 67, widower of one of the elder Buckley's daughters, and C. Dean Reasoner, a Washington lawyer who had long helped manage the Buckley businesses...
...Venezuelan halfback Cheche Vidal collected a ball unmolested in his own end and hit a long pass past the Crimson backline to a sprinting David Munson. The sophomore defender took the ball on a dead run, dribbled, in, and hit a low, right-footed drive under charging goalkeeper Peter Walsh...
...Administration, which has given a more military emphasis to the U.S. foreign aid program, is counting on Venezuela's charitable deeds to help stem the kind of political radicalism that produced Nicaragua's Sandinista government. Secretary of State Alexander Haig met in Nassau last month with the Venezuelan, Mexican and Canadian foreign ministers to map the outlines for a long-term development policy in the Caribbean area, and the officials will meet again later this year to discuss the most obvious economic needs. Says one U.S. State Department official: "Venezuela has been very helpful in developing the initiative...
...Said Venezuelan Energy Minister Humberto Calderon Berti bluntly: "There is simply no reason for us to come down in price." The makings of a deadlock were suddenly present...