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Driving Death Wish. Hubbard believes that the typical skyjacker has two intense wishes: to fly and to flee. Sometimes he takes flying lessons in an unsuccessful effort to become a pilot. Sometimes he is "a wild parachutist." In any case, he has "a singular neurotic preoccupation with space, motion and the force of gravity," and "even dreams of being able to fly, weightlessly, like an angel or an astronaut." With his "driving death wish," he may hope to die by another's hand, fantasying that he will "rise upward to God in an antigravitational fashion...
...association's account, the cow was not the culprit. The guilty party was a one-legged neighbor of Mrs. O'Leary, Dennis ("Peg Leg") Sullivan, who went to the O'Leary barn for a nightcap, lit his pipe and ignited the hay. As he tried to flee, his peg leg stuck in a floor crack. He discarded it and hobbled to safety by clinging...
...fallen woman," throughout which Klinger essayed some bitter jabs at the prevailing Victorian hypocrisies about virginity and whoredom. The luckless and persecuted heroine, freed from life, is carried away by an angel, or maybe an ideal lover, sprawled on his wings as on a feather bed. "We flee the shadow of death, not death itself, for it is the ultimate goal of our fondest wishes," Klinger wrote elsewhere...
...brief span, the fighting claimed the lives of 25 men and women, including three of the 12,500 British troops on duty in Northern Ireland. It sent at least 5,500 Catholics streaming over the southern border into the Irish Republic; it forced at least 1,500 Protestants to flee their homes; and it destroyed millions of dollars worth of property, including 500 homes and 50 factories and stores, in a region that was already one of Europe's most impoverished...
Perhaps because what they flee from is even worse. Each has his own horror story of rape, murder or other atrocity committed by the Pakistani army in its effort to crush the Bengali independence movement. One couple tells how soldiers took their two grown sons outside the house, bayoneted them in the stomach and refused to allow anyone to go near the bleeding boys, who died hours later. Another woman says that when the soldiers came to her door, she hid her children in her bed; but seeing them beneath the blanket, the soldiers opened fire, killing two and wounding...