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...Mogadishu in Somalia--the specter had been miraculously dispelled, the lives of innocents spared. The latest hijacking ended far more disastrously. Because of the demonstrated savagery of this particular band of terrorists, and perhaps because of mistakes made by well-intentioned governments and rescuers, only 38 of those aboard EgyptAir 648 survived...
Already the postmortems were under way in Malta, Cairo and various Western capitals. Malta's Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici defended his country's long-standing policy of refusing to refuel a hijacked plane unless terrorists first released all passengers aboard. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused the hijackers of being members of a Palestinian terrorist group opposed to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and closely aligned with Mubarak's enemy, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Though Mubarak did not mention the group by name, he seemed to be referring to the Abu Nidal faction, which has previously taken responsibility...
...desire for action is not confined to the West. In 1983 an antiterrorist squad was flown from Moscow to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, after a local group killed seven people aboard a jetliner. Three of the hijackers were killed in a shoot-out and five others captured. Four of the survivors were sentenced to death...
Buckley provided evidence of that earlier this year while vacationing aboard a yacht off the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. With the help of an Epson PX-8 lap-size machine, he fired off a 7,500-word draft of a children's book in two hours, a feat that can be compared with writing a college term paper during lunch break and getting it published. The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey (Workman, $10.95) is a morality tale for children from eight to 13, in which a demonical IBM 4341 mainframe teaches a New England prep-school student that computing...
...cropped up anywhere and everywhere: aboard an airliner after takeoff from Athens; on the bridge of a Mediterranean cruise liner; in a downtown street in San Salvador; and last week at crowded air terminals in Rome and Vienna. Wherever he appeared, his victims, if they were not murdered outright, faced endless hours or days of anarchy and wrenching fear, often accompanied by harsh rantings about some strange and often incomprehensible political creed. Once again the terrorist, the sinister perpetrator of violence in the name of politics, showed himself to be, as the 19th century Russian Revolutionary Sergei Nechayev...