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...blow up the plane in the air. Libyan officials finally relented. The Japanese terrorist told the passengers that the skyjacking had been done for the "whole of the world." It was also intended to expose the "imperialism" of Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Japan. Then he started to weep and apologized for "causing everyone so much inconvenience." When the last passenger had left the plane, the skyjackers set fire to it. Reports TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who was on the scene: "Passengers were barely clear before a wisp of black smoke curled out of the cockpit. A tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flight to Nowhere | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...implausible figure of Muammar Gaddafi that has acquired the role of an Arab Parsifal. He is a mere 31 years old, handsome, devout, ardent, even fanatical. "The Arabs need to be told the facts," he is fond of saying. "The Arabs need someone to make them weep, not someone to make them laugh." Nasser once told the young Gaddafi: "You remind me of myself when I was your age." Gaddafi was profoundly moved. To be the new Nasser is his obsession-to succeed where Nasser failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Arab World: Oil, Power, Violence | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...Israeli, as a Jew, as a human being, I can say nothing. I weep; I pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1973 | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...weep for the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives to be destroyed as a result of the Supreme Court decision on abortion [Jan. 29], for the tremendous waste of human resources, and I weep for my children who will live in a society where property is protected by law but human life is denied such protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1973 | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

Rhode Island. More stakes were lost over a card table in Kirkland House last night, oHmm. URI lost a tight scrimmage to Columbia, 12-7, and trounced Northeastern's excuse for a team last week, 28-7. Brown showed up for a scrimmage with Harvard. Read it and weep, Lenny Jardine, Rams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dake It Or Leave It | 9/30/1972 | See Source »

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