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...invites her to a Broadway show because he?s been stood up by his wife and has an extra ticket; agrees to her condition of anonymity; leaves her at the bar after the show; arrives home to find his wife dead and himself the main suspect. Who?s his alibi? Dunno. Where does she live? Couldn?t say. Did anyone see them at the time of the murder? Sure, lots of people - but none of them seems to remember the phantom lady. Innocence betrayed meets the no-name sex of a million quickie assignations. When he?s convicted...
Prosecutors contend that the $60 stop-loss agreement was a false alibi concocted by Stewart and Bacanovic to explain the events of Dec. 27, 2001. Stewart was on her way to a vacation in Mexico, and Bacanovic--then off on his own holiday--had just learned that ImClone co-founder Sam Waksal wanted to sell all the ImClone shares in his Merrill Lynch account, worth $4.9 million. Bacanovic called Stewart's assistant and left the message "Peter Bacanovic thinks ImClone is going to start trading downward...
...over to prosecutors. The notes Bacanovic made of the portfolio review, for example, include the notation "@60" next to ImClone in blue ink. Prosecutors say that ink is "scientifically distinguishable" from the blue writing on the rest of the page, so it must have been added to bolster the alibi. "That, a jury can understand," says Martin Pollner, a defense lawyer at Loeb & Loeb in New York City. Prosecutors say Stewart altered evidence too. The indictment alleges that she changed the message from Bacanovic on her assistant's computer a few days before her interview with the SEC, shortly after...
...when 17 U.S. sailors died - on a softer, commercial target. British Lieut. Commander Harvey Burwin, a Naples - based NATO official, told Time that "a tangible threat has been identified" in the Strait. "There will always be shipping in the Strait, which can provide [terrorists] with cover or an alibi for being there," Burwin says. One or two times a day, convoys of up to 10 vessels rendezvous at either side of the Strait to be escorted across the 58-km passage by a combination of antisubmarine aircraft and gunship helicopters in the air and frigates, destroyers and fast patrol boats...
DIED. FREDERICK KNOTT, 86, angst-ridden playwright of Dial M for Murder who wrote for money but hated the craft; in New York City. Dial M, a clever, tense mystery that focused on law enforcement's attempts to break down the alibi of a man who has killed his wife, started as a TV special and later became a successful play and a 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film...