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Press, 9 March 1987, Page 10

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< Tokyo snowbound i A spring storm dumped } up to 17cm of snow on the ‘ Tokyo area yesterday , leaving five dead and at ‘ least 143 people injured in * car crashes and pavement . mishaps, the Metropolitan J Fire Department said. — ‘ Tokyo ‘ Hijack thwarted The pilot and flight engineer of an Alaska Airlines airliner overpowered and tied up a would-be hijacker who had demanded to be flown to Cuba. A Federation Aviation Administration spokesman, Paul Steucke, said Juan Tapanes, aged 30, who was arrested by the F. 8.1. when the plane arrived at Anchorage, had forced his way into the cockpit after claiming to have a pistol in his pocket. —Anchorage Bus crashes Thirty-six people were burned to death and another 17 seriously injured when a bus overturned and caught fire outside Caracas, a Venezuelan police commissioner said. The bus carrying 55 passengers from Caracas to the western city of Barquisimeto hit a highway barrier after a front tyre exploded, said Commissioner Jose Arias Palma. —Caracas