title: Hijacked!?
author: Mr. Robert E. Sullivan
description: Robert Sullivan is a foreign correspondent and a pilot
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  # Screwjack
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Screwjack
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## MESCALITO
  
  
  February
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  16, 1969
  
  
  Again in L.A., again at the Continental Hotel . . . full of pills and club
  sandwiches and
  
  
  Old Crow and now a fifth of Louis Martini Barbera, looking down from the
  eleventh floor
  
  
  balcony at a police ambulance screaming down toward the Whisky-a-Go-Go on the
  Strip, where
  
  
  I used to sit in the I afternoon with Lionel and talk with off-duty hookers .
  . . and
  
  
  while I was standing there, watching four flower children in bell-bottom I
  pants, two
  
  
  couples, hitch-hiking toward Hollywood proper, a mile or so up the road . . .
  they
  
  
  no?ticed me looking down and waved. I waved, and moments later, after pointing
  me out to
  
  
  each I other, they hoisted the “V” signal -- and I returned that. And one of
  them yelled,
  
  
  “What are you doing up there?” And I said, “I'm writing about all you freaks
  down there on
  
  
  the street.” We talked back and forth for a while, not communicating much, and
  I 