Word: zagreb
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...Zagreb Proarte String Quartet performs in Sanders Theatre...
...film Diary (1974) is the result of a visit to the United States by of the Zagreb school of animation. In less than fifteen seconds, blobs expand into cocktail parties and a pudgy businessman is isolated; he sprouts into the air, his legs become the World Trade Towers with New York at his feet, his cigar turns into innumerable smokestacks, and neon signs spring from his vest: WORK! PROSPERITY! BIG BUSINESS...
Soviet-built bazookas. One round plowed into an airport catering building. A second ripped a hole in a Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner about to load passengers for Zagreb. No one was seriously injured, and the terrorists, believed to be Palestinians, escaped...
...skyjackers, who were determined not to release the Lufthansa plane or its passengers until the released prisoners were safely in Libya, refused to accept any arrangement. Instead, they ordered Claussen to keep flying over Yugoslavia until the prisoners landed in Zagreb. Fuel ran so low that the captain had to cut off two of his three engines; if the third one shut down, the terrorists warned, they would simply blow up the plane...
...their heads that their three comrades come on board my plane without anybody being released?" Aloft over West Germany, Lufthansa's Culmann finally decided that the situation represented a "supra-legal emergency." Without consulting Bonn, he ordered the pilot of the Hawker Siddeley to fly to Zagreb and agreed to make the exchange on Arab terms. Moments after his plane touched down, the terrorists allowed Claussen to land the 727; less than a minute's fuel remained in the plane's tanks. On the ground, the Arabs were adamant that the 727 be refueled for the flight...