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...Hunt) is teaching sign language to her prize pupil, a chimpanzee named Virgil (beautifully played -- no kidding -- by a chimp named Willie). After two years, Virgil is shipped to an Air Force base in Florida for a top-secret experiment shepherded by Jimmy Garrett (Broderick), a bright, goof-off airman who develops the same parental bond for Virgil that Teri had. Soon Teri, the Mary Beth Whitehead of primate research, is off to Florida to steal back her chimp-child. The ensuing custody battle will involve Jimmy, the Air Force brass and a balky nuclear reactor...
...affidavit indicated Israel was working to bring home its servicemen form Lebanon, including an airman held by the Lebanese militia Amal...
Israel indicate yesterday it was willing to discuss the swap of an Israeli airman missing in Lebanon for the release of the 400 Arab prisoner, a proposal advanced Saturday by Nabih Berri, head of the main Shiite Amal militia and Lebanon's justice minister...
...noted that the FAA will soon introduce new air-collision warning devices for airliners and more sophisticated computers for the air-traffic control system, but he suggested that the "solution to the midair collision threat will still be the pilot." There is no substitute, Engen said, "for a vigilant airman...
...Waite's negotiations this time involved hostages other than Americans, and perhaps went beyond Lebanon. According to a knowledgeable Israeli source, Assad was attempting a "multinational swap," a kind of coordinated release involving not just U.S. hostages but possibly those from Britain, France and Italy, and even an Israeli airman held in Lebanon. In Israel, the counterpart would presumably be the freeing of some or all of 108 Shi'ites being held in southern Lebanon by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia. It was not clear whether a grand swap would also involve other Arab prisoners held...