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...over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. Thurman matched a fragment of a circuit board from the bomb's timer to an identical circuit board, which was part of a timer the CIA had recovered from an intact, unexploded bomb seized in Togo in 1986. Thurman's amazing command of detail led to a Zurich electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime. The U.S. was then able to charge that Libyan intelligence agents had tagged a brown "bomb bag" containing the radio with stolen Air Malta tags and placed it on an Air Malta Flight...
Perot's high command has given Lamm some pro forma encouragement. An initial mailing sent to Reform supporters last week lists only Perot and Lamm as "most frequently mentioned'' prospects (voters can write in others). Further, Perot has promised not to use his fortune to promote his own prospects between now and the time his party's two-phase convention begins...
...days the supersecretive Yeltsin high command avoided Dresner, and none of the team ever actually met the President. "There are too many factions and too many leaks to risk your dealing with him directly," Braynin explained to Dresner. "You are our biggest secret...
During the war, Colonel Thanh commanded four film-projection squads charged with showing movies to guerrillas living in the underground tunnels that crisscrossed the Cu Chi district of Vietnam. The motion-picture units were considered indispensable to the liberation effort, apparently because all war and no play made Charlie a very crabby combatant. Indeed, troops would sometimes demand to see a movie before they would consent to fight. Had the U.S. command known this, of course, it could have significantly altered the course of the war by buying up all the projectors carried by Saigon electronics stores, which was where...
Defense Secretary William Perry; Gen. John Shalikashvili, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Army Gen. Binford Peay, head of the U.S. Central Command, spent part of yesterday preparing for today's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing...