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‘teas 1 • ',4 IHRBRBH9 0101 Wednesday, March 8, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 7 THE BATTALION Chitwoi >f UT-Et ants of Bryacl 3 in psy.i lone, edtl toral stul ‘nd llaiji e studettl duate i Pilot convinces young hij acker to drop plans to fly to Sweden TAMPA, Fla. (A>)—A 14-year- old boy attempted to hijack a National Airlines jet to Sweden at gun point Tuesday before the captain talked him out of the idea and a federal marshal overpower ed him, authorities said. Federal officials said Edmund Maddox McKee Jr. of Treasure Island, Fla., told them he got the idea for the hijack attempt from watching television. The plane never left the ground. An airline spokesman said the thin, modly dressed youth ap proached ticket agent Ron Jones shortly after noon waving a .22 caliber revolver and said, “I’m hijacking you and the airplane; let’s go.” Jones escorted the youth on board the Boeing 727 and told Captain Ben Home of Miami, “I have a young man here who wants to hijack the airplane,” the spokesman said. Horne then convinced the youth to permit the passengers and ticket agent to leave the plane. There were 17 passengers and three crewmen aboard the flight, No. 67 between New York and Miami. Tampa was one of several intermediate stops. The teen-ager told Horne he wanted to go to Stockholm, Swe den, but authorities said the pilot talked him out of the attempt by saying the plane did not have the range for the flight. Horne also convinced the youth to put his loaded revolver in a flight bag he was carrying and started to escort him back into the terminal accompanied by an other ticket agent, the airline spokesman said. He was grabbed by Federal Reports of peace talks untrue, Israel says ■ Hill KMil AN UNUSUAL ANSWER to one of mankind’s oldest and most pressing problems was found on this car in front of the Memorial Student Center. The suggestion may make ecological sense but is still a little hard to swallow. (Photo by Mike Rice) Israel says reports of secret peace talks with King Hussein are a “propaganda exercise” to discredit the Jordanian monarch in the Arab world. The reports, first published in Egypt and expanded Tuesday by Skydiving-it’s a very habit-forming thrill By BILL CHRISTOPHER Watching the Golden Knights as they landed on the drill field after the Military Day review at A&M Saturday, one may wonder what kind of people get their thrills by jumping out of air planes. “I would rather jump than drink or date,” was the comment of parachutist Choya Walling. Limping after his last jump with a pulled muscle in his knee, Wal ling can hardly wait until he is well enough to get up in the air again. Griffiths edits climate book 4.1 I nday. ibout 3ther n the alter “Climates of Africa,” a 600- page book edited by Prof. John F. Griffiths of A&M‘s Meteorol ogy Department has been pub lished by the Elsevier Company of Amsterdam. One of a 15-volume series, “World Survey of Climatology,” the book is composed of 14 chap ters, nine written by the TAMU climatologist. The book provides a resume of existing climatological knowledge of the African continent. Grif fiths has traveled widely in Af rica, living there 12 years. His research and writing were assist ed by a 1968-69 faculty develop ment leave while enabled the scientist to revisit many African countries, including Egypt, Ethi opia, Kenya and South Africa. Griffiths, recently elected a member of the World Academy of Art and Science, said the publica tion is in non-mathematical terms and written to develop awareness of the importance of climate as a natural resource. Wisconsin professor to lecture Thursday Dr. L. C. Young, distinguished research professor at the Univer sity of Wisconsin, will lecture at A&M March 9. “It’s habit-forming. Most sky- divers are usually broke because they pour every dime they get into jumping,” Walling said. Parachuting is a costly hobby. A jumper must spend $3 to $6 just to get up in the plane. His equipment constitutes his major expense. And of course, there is always the possibility of unex pected medical expenses. There are three basic types of skydivers, explained Walling: those who do relative work, those who work on style and those who work for accuracy. Relative work is jumping with two or more people at the same time. This involves moving to gether in free fall. An example of this is the “record 24-man star a month ago in California,” Wal ling said. The other two types, style and accuracy work, can usually be done together. Style skydiving, usually used in competition, con sists of a number of turns and loops while the diver is in free the parachutist trys to hit a six- inch disk on the ground. There is also a great difference in parachutists, Walling said. Be ginners usually start out with a “cheapo or rag” bought from an Air Force surplus store. These can attain a forward speed of about three miles per hour for steering purposes. When the skydiver becomes more proficient, he may move to a parachute called a Para-com- mander. This is used mainly for sport with a forward speed of 10 m.p.h. From the Para-com mander, one may move to a high performance parachute. These are actually collapsible gliders like the Para-wings used by the Golden Knights. Walling, who has been jumping for almost a year, has been in terested in skydiving since he took flying lessons at 15. The Corps sophomore said that he did not have a sensation of falling, rather one of floating or flying. “There’s nothing more peaceful or exciting than jumping from the Israeli independent newspaper Haaretz, claimed Hussein and other Jordanian leaders had met Israeli officials with the help of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency five times since 1969. Haaretz said the king agreed to allow 27 Israeli paramilitary settlements on Arab land west of the Jordan River, and to let Israeli tourists enter Jordan. Jordan also would cancel its military pacts in the Arab world, the report maintained, and in re turn would get symbolic control of East Jerusalem, which Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East war. The newspaper did not say what was meant by symbolic Jordanian rule in East Jerusalem, but specified that the leaders had agreed the Jordanian flag could fly over Moslem holy places. Haaretz also did not make clear how much of its information came from Egyptian reports. Apparently quoting Egyptian reports, Haaretz said Hussein wanted to delay announcing any agreement until Egypt and Israel worked out terms for re-opening the Suez Canal, making Egypt the first Arab country to grant a con cession to Israel. Mrs. Meir’s office reacted to the report with a terse “nothing to it.” The Israeli Foreign Min istry echoed, “There is no truth in it.” Israeli officials also denied a Time magazine report that So viet and Israeli envoys had met in Switzerland to seek resumption of diplomatic relations which have been broken off since 1967. In addition, Time claimed that the Soviets had brought Israelis and Egyptians together to ne gotiate reopening the Suez Canal. Israeli officials said no such meetings had taken place and added that the Suez project was an American initiative that Mos cow had not favored officially. Marshal Clifford Ellis, who was manning a nearby gate as part of a round-the-clock Federal Avi ation Administration antihijack program. Ellis had been alerted by another ticket agent. Federal authorities said McKee was arraigned on federal hijack charges. Bond was set tempo rarily at $50,000. The youth was released in the custody of his parents and a hearing was set for March 17. Meanwhile, a spokesman for Northwest Airlines said it re ceived an anonymous telephone call several hours later that its flight 708 “may be hijacked by someone with a blue bag.” The Tampa-to-Miami flight was called back to the loading dock as it prepared for takeoff and its 25 passengers were checked out and luggage searched. Nothing was found and the flight was permitted to proceed to Miami. 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