Word: hijack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Since 1964 there have been at least three other hijack attempts aboard Soviet civilian aircraft, all involving live gunfire. In 1966, three would-be hijackers were shot at by a Soviet pilot, indicating that crew members are armed at least some of the time. Last June authorities arrested a number of Soviet Jews in Leningrad who were allegedly plotting to escape official harassment by hijacking an airliner...
Armed with a picket bearing the heading "Help Soviet Jewry," Hanna said, "It is absurd to hijack a plane from America but from Russia it's sometimes the only way to get out." Hanna characterized herself as an "ultimate anarchist...
...mediating role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Reaction at home would have been overwhelmingly adverse. As Nixon told a White House visitor on Tuesday: "The American people do not have the heart to go into another war." Finally, an armed expedition could have resulted in the execution of the hijack hostages and reprisals against other Americans in Jordan...
...lunch of rice with rice, the newsmen formed a committee to help run the hotel. Heading the committee was Michael Adams, a former Middle East correspondent for the Guardian who now heads a pro-Arab lobby in London and who was in Amman to negotiate the release of the hijack hostages. Adams drew on his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany to organize the correspondents. Though they included some major byliners from the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and other countries, they set about cleaning toilets and performing other menial chores. Los Angeles Timesman William Tuohy swept the lobby...
...Those who bomb," said Nixon, "who ambush policemen, who hijack airplanes, who hold their passengers hostage, all share in common not only a contempt for human life but also a contempt for those elemental decencies on which a free society rests." He carried the argument further, demanding an end to "passive acquiescence, or even fawning approval" of explosive radicalism. "What corrodes a society even more deeply than violence," he said, "is the acceptance of violence, the condoning of terror, excusing of inhuman acts in a misguided effort to accommodate the community's standards to those of the violent...