Word: americans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this month, Ammerman accompanied a six-member delegation of American and British families to West Germany to quiz investigators and government officials on terrorist links to Flight 103. The group emerged from three days of talks with little new information. But they left the Germans with the clear impression that their persistence will not fade...
...insurance carrier suggests that the CIA unwittingly allowed the bomb aboard Flight 103 to protect a hostage-for-drugs operation. The report states that Monzer al Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer, was permitted to ship drugs through a "protected" route at Frankfurt in exchange for promises to help free American hostages in Lebanon. The subpoenas filed by Pan Am suggest that the CIA may even have a videotape of the bomb-laden suitcase being loaded in Frankfurt. The CIA and British authorities categorically deny these allegations...
...were directed to a livestock warehouse where his body was forklifted off a plane in a cardboard box. No Pan Am or Government representative was present to help them. "They stripped him of his dignity," says Ahern's sister Bonnie O'Connor. "He should have come home with an American flag on his coffin...
...problem is that it's not a plan -- it's an idea. What we call the Brady Plan is an extraordinary initiative. It recognizes that debt is a political problem -- one of the major issues of world security -- and not just a matter between U.S. banks and Latin American nations. The Brady Plan has as its basis the reduction of debt and the realization that the countries of Latin America cannot continue servicing their debt in the way the banks have obliged us to up to now. In the past five years, Latin America has paid back the total amount...
...American public opinion must understand that we are not asking for a gift or for debt forgiveness. We want a system of economic relations that will give us guarantees so we can plan our economies and develop our countries...