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Ahmad, who was returning from a world sociology conference in Bombay, died from bullet wounds inflicted by the terrorist hijackers, said Harvard spokesman Peter Costa. Soon after Ahmad was shot, Pakistani commandoes stormed Pan Am flight 73 and captured the hijackers, ending 17 hours of terror for the 400 passengers on board...
Ahmad, 44 years old, was a graduate of Stanford University and a doctoral student in sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Ahmad was a permanent resident of the United States and held a Pakistani passport...
...Pakistani officials, meanwhile, issued conflicting statements about the fate of the four hijackers, all believed to be Palestinians. Some said all four survived. Others said one was killed, one was wounded and two were uninjured...
...hijack ended 17 hours later when lights went out inside the aircraft and the hijackers fired at passengers and hurled grenades. Pakistani commandos wrested control of the aircraft half an hour after shooting began...
...contradictions in the U.S. stance were evident last week during a state visit by Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo. Did the Reagan Administration press Pakistan to stop producing the more than 100 tons of opium that will reach the U.S. this year as heroin? Not very hard, since the Administration was arranging to give Pakistan a six-year, $4 billion military and economic aid package with no drug-strings attached. President Reagan had other serious matters to discuss with Junejo: Pakistan's reputed effort to produce nuclear weapons (which Junejo denied) and Pakistan's support for mujahedin rebels...