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...network's Middle East correspondent-who had himself been held captive by Arab guerrillas for a few hours in May 1971 -provided valuable background information. Borrowing some lessons from old-style Chicago journalism, John Wilcox, a film producer for ABC Sports, donned a T shirt, U.S. track-team jacket and track shoes to sneak past the guards at Olympic Village and position himself in an apartment opposite Building 31. From his hidden vantage point, he radioed reports on the activities of the Germans and the terrorists...
...manservant Tucker (Arthur Lowe) offers the earl (Harry Andrews) his evening whisky and a selection of nooses on a silver salver. "May I suggest the silk, sir?" Tucker says respectfully. The earl accepts, and begins his evening ritual, first stripping to his long underwear, then donning a regimental uniform jacket and a white ballet skirt, and finally stringing himself up for a harmless little swing. The earl, however, mucks up on this particular occasion, and Tucker discovers him dangling from the proper silk rope, neck twisted like a child...
...Flies, carrying hate on their young-old faces like a bold banner. They wait for soldiers on street corners, flinging crisp insults: "Limey pig...soldier baastids...Up yours," and then bricks and rocks. "You can't shoot a kid, can you?" says a soldier wearing a flak jacket with the inscription CS IS A GAS, a sick pun. "But I know a couple I'd like to ship," meaning deport them...
...pedaled through a gap in the fence surrounding the Reno Municipal Airport-the same gap used by another hijacker three months ago. (Reno has applied for federal funds for a new fence, but has yet to receive them.) Ditching his bike, he slipped the rifle under his green field jacket, bulled his way into the line of passengers boarding a United Air Lines Boeing 727 bound for San Francisco, and took command of the aircraft...
...taxis a relief pitcher toward the diamond. Eyes strain to see who is inside the car, voices murmur, hopes rise. The car stops, the stadium organist sweeps into the regal strains of Pomp and Circumstance, and the crowd exults. Out steps Albert Walter ("Sparky") Lyle. He sheds his warmup jacket with measured nonchalance and strides toward the pitcher's mound, one cheek distended by chewing tobacco. A few practice throws, a couple of spits, and Sparky is once again ready to try to quell a crisis...