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M I L L I O N S o f A m e r i c a n s
headed to the polls yesterday
for Super Tuesday – the most
important day in the race to
the White House so far.
Fourteen states were choos-
ing a Democratic candidate to
challenge Donald Trump in
the November election.
Frontrunner Bernie Sanders
was up against former vice
president Joe Biden, who has
picked up three endorse-
ments from former rivals.
They were also facing bil-
lionaire Mike Bloomberg for
the first time. Elizabeth War-
ren also remains in the race.
Moderate Pete Buttigieg
withdrew this week.was a black woman travelling
with a child.
‘She said, “Don’t touch me.”
The moment he touched her
she went all crazy.’
The court was shown footage
in which Mitaiare is heard say-
ing: ‘Why did you put your
hands on me? Why did you hit
a woman? Do you think you
have the power?’ Capt Keel
responds: ‘I have the power.’
Miss De Silva said: ‘She
[Mitaiare] grabbed the cap-
tain by the hand and pushed
him into the cockpit. There
was a tussle. She ended up on
top of the captain.
‘The mother was kicking the
captain while he was on the
floor, saying “Get off my
daughter”.’ The Swiss Air pilotA MOTHER and daughter attacked Daily Mail Reporter
an airline captain after they were
told they couldn’t store a child
buggy in the cabin, a court heard.
Mary Roberts, 53, and Henrietta
Mitaiare, 23, allegedly pushed pilot Guido
Keel into the cockpit before biting,
scratching and kicking him on the floor.
The pair, who had travelled from Zurich
to London with Mitaiare’s young daughter,
launched the attack after their flight
arrived at Heathrow on May 2 last year.
Before they left Switzerland, Mitaiare
asked a flight attendant whether her ‘expen-
sive’ buggy could go in the cabin rather
than the hold – but was refused, Uxbridge
magistrates’ court heard.
An argument started when two airport
workers arrived, before Roberts ‘stepped into calm her daughter down’. After landing
at Heathrow Mitaiare asked cabin crew for
the names of the Swiss airport workers so
she could make a complaint. This prompted
Capt Keel to come out from the cockpit,
said Arlene De Silva, prosecuting.
Cabin manager Ali Chkerdaa, who had
refused to allow Mitaiare to carry the buggy
on board in Zurich, said Mitaiare told the
pilot: ‘Don’t meddle with it, you have noth-
ing to do with it.’ Mr Chkerdaa said: ‘She
said Swiss people are racist, because she‘She said the
Swiss are racist’sustained scratches to his face
and arm and a bite on his
upper arm, Miss De Silva said.
Friedrich Prieler, the co-pilot,
said he was hesitant to use
force to stop the struggle
because Mitaiare is a woman.
Asked if Capt Keel had failed
to show similar restraint, Mr
Prieler made reference to the
so-called Tokyo Convention,
which grants certain immuni-
ties for captains on their air-
craft if they believe there is a
threat to safety. ‘He was not
punching. He used his weight
advantage,’ he said.
Mitaiare and Roberts, of
south-west London, were
removed from the plane by
police and arrested. They deny
failing to obey the lawful com-
mands of the aircraft’s captain
and assault by beating.
The trial continues.Charge: Miss Mitaiare
Air rage mum and
daughter ‘attacked
pilot in buggy row’
US gears up
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MARCH 4, 195 7
In WATERLOOvILLE, Hants, they wanted
a nameplate for a road. Eventually it
arrived... spelt Marilyn Avenue, — after
Marilyn Monroe? ‘Who’s Marilyn Monroe?’
asked the locals. And yesterday the plate
went to be altered to the spelling Water-
looville has known for 20 years... Maralyn.
MARCH 4, 1965
POP singer Davy Jones, right,
[ s o o n t o b e c o m e D a v i d
Bowie] lost a part in a BBC
Tv show yesterday because
h e r e f u s e s t o g e t h i s
15-inch-long hair cut. He said
last night: ‘I wouldn’t have
any hair cut for the Prime
Minister, let alone the BBC. It took nearly
three years to grow and it’s part of
my stock-in-trade.’HaPPY biRtHDaY
TIM vInE, 53. In 2014 the London-born
comic became the only person to win the
Best Joke At The Edinburgh Fringe award
for a second time, with the one-liner: ‘I’ve
decided to sell my Hoover... well, it was just
collecting dust.’ He once held the Guinness
World Record for most jokes told in one
hour (499). Despite his success, the younger
brother of Tv’s Jeremy vine says he refuses
ever to pay more than £2,000 (‘absolute
maximum’) for a car.
PAT Sy KEnS I T, 5 2. T h e
former child actress, right,
says she’s ‘worked every year
of my life since I was four’
(when she appeared in an
advert for Birds Eye peas).
She was just six when she
starred with Robert Redford
in The Great Gatsby and 16
when she got cast opposite David Bowie in
the 1986 film Absolute Beginners. Describ-
ing herself as ‘a hopeless romantic’, she has
married and divorced four musicians,
including Liam Gallagher and Jim Kerr.boRn on tHiS DaY
AnnE HAnEy (1934-2001). The U.S.
actress appeared in Mrs Doubtfire and
played Michael Douglas’s secretary in The
American President. Explaining why she
entered the film industry, she said: ‘My
husband died, my daughter went to college,
the dog got fleas, and the maid quit. So I
had to come to Hollywood.’
JIM CLARK (1936-68). The Fife -born
f a r m e r- t u r n e d - F 1 d r i v e r w a s w o r l d
champion in 1963 and 1965 and winner of a
then-record 25 Grand Prix races. Clark died
aged 32 after his Lotus-Cosworth careered
off the track into a wood at 160mph during
a F2 race in Germany.
on MaRcH 4...
IN 1933, Frances Perkins became the
first woman to serve in a U.S. cabinet
when P resident Roosevelt made her
Labor Secretary.
IN 1966, the London Evening Standard
published an interview with John Lennon,
in which he said of The Beatles: ‘We’re more
popular than Jesus now.’ It set off an
international furore when reprinted in a
U.S. magazine nearly five months later.
WoRD WiZaRDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Novena (c1850)
A) nine-day service and devotion of
prayers. B) A recruit. C) A novelty.
Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Play ducks and drakes: Refers to the game
of skimming stones across the water to
bounce more times than anyone else’s. By
the 17th century, it came to refer to
squandering one’s time and money.
QUote F oR toDaY
Standards are always out of date.
That is what makes them standards.
Alan Bennett, writer, actor and dramatist
joKe oF tHe D aY
WHAT do you call a Roman with a cold?
Julius Sneezer.
Guess the Definition answer: A.