The first telephone call to the White House got the idea across. ''Looks like we've got another one.'' cried a Federal Aviation Agency official. "A Pan Am out of Mexico City. We'll call you back as soon as we have the details.'' Five calls to the President on that day last week fleshed out the details: four minutes out of Mexi co City, while southbound for Guatemala City with 81 aboard, a four-jet Pan American World Airways DC-8 had been "skyjacked" by a lone gunman and ordered to turn course for Cuba.
The DC-8 was the fourth U.S. plane skyjacked...
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