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Rather than cooperate with the U.N.'s fact finders, both extremist groups decided to greet them by calling a general strike and setting off a fresh wave of anti-British rioting. From Cairo, F.L.O.S.Y. Boss Abdul Qawee Mac-kawee smirkingly denied that he had ordered his commandos to kill five Brit ish soldiers a day during the U.N. mission's stay: "I wouldn't want to restrict our people. Perhaps they can kill more than that." Aden's bustling shops were boarded up, its streets patrolled by British armored cars, and its harbor emptied of ships...
...quest for diversification, Mr. Mac has been trying for years to break into the ranks of civilian-airplane manufacturers. And he has been repeatedly frustrated. In the late 1950s, he sank $15 million into a four-engine turbojet transport intended to be a corporate plane or Air Force trainer. Nobody would buy it. "That was the time," says McDonnell ruefully, "that old Mac got doodlebugged again...
...Psychic Rewards. Mr. Mac draws a salary of $98,970 a year, and his personal 13% stockholding in his company (worth $90 million) earned him another $730,000 in dividends last year. But he is not impressed by the figures, only by what they reflect of the success of his lifelong plan. Says he: "I don't work for money any more, just for the psychic rewards...
...Doodlebugged Again." Though McDonnell's engineers are already looking beyond the moon to Mars and Venus, Mr. Mac is also betting part of his bankroll on earthbound expansion?notably the development of vertical- and short-takeoff-and-landing craft for intercity air travel. "It's bound to come," he insists. By his calculations, as early as 1975 V/STOL planes could grab half the commercial travel over such short hops as San Francisco to Los Angeles...
...Downdraft. But he was not about to give up. It was almost inevitable that Mr. Mac should go all out to buy Douglas when he got a chance. He made a first overture in 1963 after picking up an estimated 200,000 shares of the California company's stock. Douglas rejected his advances, and McDonnell later sold his holdings at a handsome profit...