Hijack Victims: We Are Continuously Surrounded

The homesick hijack victims eat, sleep and wait

Arthur and Deborah Toga of St. Louis had boarded TWA Flight 847 in Athens a week earlier, at the end of a three-week vacation in Europe, because another flight had been canceled. He is an assistant professor of neurology, she a psychiatric nurse who is seven months pregnant. After she was released by the hijackers in Algiers, she flew to the U.S. to await news of her husband at the home of his parents in Lexington, Mass. In chaotic Beirut last week, Arthur Toga, 32, tried to describe his feelings. "I fear for her, not knowing about my well-being, so I...

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