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...down a flight of stairs. And even when they are on the same floor, they are too small to take a chair in." In some countries, including Britain, Germany and Italy, no agency directly polices access, leaving disabled people to enforce what laws there are by suing violators. Briton Bob Ross, who prevailed over discount airline Ryanair in court after he was charged $26 to use a wheelchair at London's Stansted Airport three years ago, says this is unfair. "Even though the legislation is there, the onus is on [disabled] people to take the action, and for many reasons...
...Waha oil field, hundreds of kilometers into the Sahara from Essider's harbor, the production lines are monitored from a computer room equipped with the defunct Data General's 1982 system. "I'd say we're at least 15 years behind in technology," explains Gordon Snowdon, 55, a Briton in charge of production at the oil field's biggest station. "Actually, we're frozen in the 1970s." Over the past year, delegations of American oil executives have flown regularly to the Essider terminal and to Waha's desert oil fields, trying to discern how to re-enter Libya. Under...
...Waha oil field, hundreds of miles into the Sahara from Essider's harbor, the production lines are monitored from a computer room equipped with the defunct Data General's 1982 system. "I'd say we're at least 15 years behind in technology," explains Gordon Snowdon, 55, a Briton in charge of production at the oil field's biggest station. "Actually, we're frozen in the 1970s...
...absolutely true, except that Paul West is not in his 20s, did not arrive in Paris two years ago, launch any tea rooms or keep a diary. Oh, and he isn't Paul West. His real name is Stephen Clarke, and he's a 45-year-old Oxford-educated Briton who works as an editor in Paris and has lived there for 11 years. "I saw the movie Chocolat," he says, "and the idea of a British woman opening a chocolate shop and working in a French village seemed so wrong, so un-French. Then I read [Peter Mayle...
...trade, allegedly profiting from a multi-billion dollar deal with Saudi Arabia. In 1987, he married Diane Burgdorf, the daughter of a wealthy Texan; the couple moved from Texas to South Africa in 1995. Ron Wheeldon, a partner at the South African law firm representing Thatcher, denies that the Briton has a connection to the coup plot. Wheeldon says he has oil and mining interests around the world. "He likes to fly helicopters, he keeps fit, he runs up [Cape Town's Table] Mountain," he says. "He entertains and he is entertaining." South African police allege that Thatcher also finances...