Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After late night deal-making Friday, theSentate had added a three-state pilot program thatwould have required many foreign immigrants to usespecial finger-printed drivers licenses asidentification...
...question is perhaps best left to psychiatrists, but last week Congressmen, Senators, White House aides and millions of Americans were trying to answer it. How could George Bush -- the World War II bomber pilot, the Commander in Chief who invaded Panama and ousted its dictator, the leader who dispatched more than 200,000 U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf and ably assembled an international alliance to confront Saddam Hussein -- be so wishy- washy...
MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT, by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow; 399 pages; $21.95), is one of a large and growing subgenre of evil-Greek-shipowner thrillers. Nasty fellows, those fictional Greek shipowners. This one, rich and loathsome Constantin Demiris, has arranged that his unfaithful mistress and her lover, Demiris' pilot, be executed for the supposed murder of the pilot's wife, beautiful, trusting American Catherine Alexander. But he is still angry, and he strides about his villa like Richard III, gloating in a long, italic aside about what he is going to do to Catherine, who lost her memory during a boat explosion...
...assuming that the man wanted to offer the flowers to the crew as a Moon Festival token, two security guards allowed him through. Once inside, the passenger reportedly opened his jacket to reveal 15 lbs. of explosives strapped to his chest and ordered all crew members, except for the pilot, out of the cockpit. He then demanded that the plane fly to Taiwan...
Instead, the pilot continued on to Guangzhou and circled above the city's Baiyun airport for 40 minutes. After the hijacker realized that he had been tricked, he either set off the bombs or scuffled with the pilot, causing the plane to lose control. Careening down the runway, the jet sideswiped an empty Boeing 707 parked nearby and slammed on top of a Boeing 757 filled with passengers en route to Shanghai...