Word: crashing
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...found his way into the Service's files. Samuel Byck first caught agents' attention after making a threat against President Nixon's life in 1972. In 1974 Byck killed a policeman, an airline pilot, then himself in a failed effort to hijack a DC-9 that he planned to crash into the White House. In 1975 agents evaluated Sarah Jane Moore and decided she was not dangerous. Then she fired a gun at President Ford. "Washington is kind of a mecca for nuts," says a federal law-enforcement officer. "Disturbed people go there because they think that's where their...
...former French marine was quoted on Sunday as saying his high-speed driving might have been a major factor in the car crash that killed Princess Diana and two others last year. François Levistre, 54, told Britain's Sunday People newspaper (no relation to PEOPLE magazine): "Thinking about it carefully, I now understand how I could have helped cause the crash. I was close behind the car, as much as 10 meters, and my driving may have caused it to swerve and lose control." Levistre, a truck driver by profession, said that last Aug. 31 he was speeding...
...Outlook Express and Outlook 98 or Netscape Mail, you might want to be a bit more careful about opening your spam today. Both companies have acknowledged the existence of a serious security flaw in their programs that, according to tests, could allow hackers to mail viruses that will crash your computer or erase your hard drive. And if you think dumping messages straight in the trash keeps you safe, think again: The tests, conducted over the past month by Finnish researchers, showed that some viruses were activated by the very act of deleting -- even by simply receiving the mail...
...staying coy and there's no certainty, but the signs are that there may be a small wedding at his home on Saturday," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. Machel is the widow of Samora Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, who died in a plane crash in 1987. South Africa's Truth Commission is currently probing allegations that foul play by the apartheid authorities may have contributed to that crash...
...burden of too much business, however, may not be with Boeing long. Asia's financial crash has caused carriers across the Pacific Rim to cancel or delay billions of dollars' worth of aircraft orders. Boeing, which plans to build 550 jetliners in 1998, says the downturn may cost it some 90 deliveries--which could carry a value of $10 billion--over the next five years. In Europe, Boeing rival Airbus Industrie, pushing for a 50% share of the world's $65 billion-a-year jetliner market, is wooing long-standing Boeing customers and has been bargaining hard...