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...tragedy seemed especially shocking, it may be because its victims were so unsuspecting. Many were watching a soccer match on television; others were sitting down to an evening meal. Unlike the 167 people who died last month when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus crashed in Nepal, the ! victims in Amsterdam had made no decision to assume the risks of flying. They simply happened to live near a busy airport...
...plane appeared to be Iran. U.S. intelligence agents even traced a wire transfer of several million dollars to a bank account in Vienna belonging to the P.F.L.P.-G.C. Iran's motive seemed obvious enough. The previous July, the U.S.S. Vincennes had mistakenly shot down an Iranian Airbus over the Persian Gulf, killing all 298 aboard...
...fall of 1988, al-Kassar's operation had been spotted by P.F.L.P.-G.C. leader Ahmed Jibril, who had just taken on the assignment from Tehran to avenge the U.S. downing of its Airbus. A CIA undercover agent in Tripoli reported that Jibril also obtained Gaddafi's support. According to Mossad, Jibril dined with al-Kassar at a Paris restaurant and secured a reluctant promise of assistance in planting a bomb aboard an as yet unselected American transatlantic...
...Japan the only contender. Last month McDonnell Douglas agreed to sell 40% of its commercial-jet manufacturing operations to a company owned partly by the government of Taiwan. In doing so, McDonnell Douglas cited competition from Airbus, the subsidized European aircraft consortium. Once it's rolling, the deal could cloud one of the few bright spots in America's economic picture: the $16 billion trade surplus in commercial aircraft. "It's a classic example of what's wrong," said New Mexico's Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman. "Much of the technology that McDonnell Douglas is selling was developed with American taxpayer...
...much in fashion as fashion is the ultimate philosophy. Together with modern farms, a medieval patchwork of agriculture still yields its plenty to cordon bleu tables in a country better prepared for the 21st century than most -- a land crisscrossed by bullet trains, a nuclear-electric power grid, Airbus jetliners and satellites borne aloft in Ariane rockets...