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Meanwhile, the terrorists warned that they would blow up the plane if any rescue attempt was made. They refused a request that women and children be allowed to disembark...
...movie ends a little too tidily, with a new AID official being greeted at the airport and the sense of a tide nearly too strong to stem. But in the expression of someone in the crowd−probably a member of the radical group−watching the AID man disembark, we are also shown continued defiance. And rage. And strength...
...that a crime novel is hardly Crime and Punishment. It is not a perilous exploration of society's swamps or the deeps of the soul, but a fast ride through the fun house. Scenery is shifted and repainted, old frights are given new faces. The paying customers disembark laughing about something else after the predictable 200 pages, never having been in danger...
Getting Antsy. Says Passenger Barbara Simmons: "It was really strange. When the plane landed, we sat there for 15 minutes, and nobody talked." As soon as the money and parachutes were brought aboard, the hijacker allowed the passengers and two of the stewardesses to disembark; however, he demanded that one of the girls, Tina Mucklow, remain on board as a hostage. The hijacker asked to be flown to Mexico. The crew explained that such a flight was out of their ship's range. At one point the impatient captain told the tower: "This guy is getting antsy." To underscore...
...bearing the Chinese delegation to the United Nations came to a halt at John F. Kennedy Airport last week, no one could find a key to the door of the loading platform, and the door had to be taken off its hinges before Peking's men could disembark. Then the loudspeaker system went on the blink just as Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua uttered the first words of his arrival speech. Chiao manfully went ahead anyway, and the words were duly recorded for television: "The people of the United States are a great people, and there exists...