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Pilot convinces young hij acker
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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
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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.
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“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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