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...Nguyen '93 NIGHT EDITORS: Julian E. Barnes '93 Jonathan M. Berlin '92 D. Richard de Silva '94 Brian R. Hecht '92 Mary Louise Kelly '93 David S. Kurnick '94 Philip P. Pan '93 Joshua W. Shenk '93 FEATURE EDITOR: Julian E. Barnes '93 SPORTS EDITOR: John B. Trainer '95 PHOTO EDITOR: Hau Liu '94 Isabel M. Dedring '93 BUSINESS EDITOR: Nelson E. Famadas '94 Michael A. Schoen
From his new vantage point in Berlin, correspondent Daniel Benjamin lives at the nexus of the most dramatic changes in postwar Europe. "The tensions between East and West swirl around you here with a power that one has difficulty imagining anywhere else," he says. James Wilde, who opened our Istanbul bureau in January, is positioned to monitor Turkey's increasingly vital strategic role in Europe and the Persian Gulf, as well as its relationships with the emerging Islamic republics...
London: William Mader Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Berlin: Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Kumiko Makihara Latin America: Laura Lopez...
...happened that the flight from Berlin to Frankfurt was delayed. While all the passengers ultimately made the connection to London, 11 suitcases, including the pilot's two bags, remained behind in Frankfurt. They were entered into the airport computer system and rerouted via the Pan Am flight. But only one of the pilot's suitcases was recovered at Lockerbie. The other had been mysteriously left behind in Frankfurt, and arrived safely in Seattle a day later. That story, which TIME has corroborated, doesn't prove Pan Am's claim that terrorists used al-Kassar's drug pipeline to pull...
...bomb-laden luggage replaced an innocent bag, what happened to the displaced suitcase? On Dec. 21, 1988, the day of the bombing, one of Pan Am's Berlin-based pilots was about to head home to Seattle, Washington, for Christmas when he received orders to fly to Karachi first. He had with him two identical Samsonite suitcases full of presents. At the Berlin airport, he $ asked Pan Am to send them directly to Seattle. "Rush" tags, marked for Flights 637 to Frankfurt, 107 to London and 123 to Seattle, were affixed to the bags...