1.   Walter Philbrick, left, joins two of his employees, Doreen Pluschau and Nelson Ricardo, in a mock airliner hijacking by terrorists.

2.   A month after the airliner hijackings, auto sales reached an all-time high, albeit with the help of zero percent financing deals.

3.   A radical Palestinian faction that pioneered airliner hijackings a quarter-century ago condemned terrorism Monday but pledged to continue its struggle against Israel.

4.   Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak postponed a meeting with President Clinton on Mideast peace, heading back to Israel early Sunday to deal with an airliner hijacking.

5.   Israeli officials said Thursday that Israel was committed to letting exiled PNC members return for the vote, including guerrilla leader George Habash, whose group pioneered airliner hijackings.

6.   The military strikes were launched after Pastrana ended peace talks with the FARC on Wednesday in the wake of a rebel airliner hijacking.