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...Alma tunnel has become a place of morbid pilgrimage: a way station in the re-enactment of Diana's life and death. But a thousand imponderables lie behind the tragic tale of that car accident on Aug. 31, 1997, that also killed her lover Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. French authorities still have no clear answers to many vexing questions. They say they have definitively ruled out the possibility of a conspiracy, and now consider the crash an accident owing mainly to drunk driving, excessive speed and a dangerous stretch of road. Yet many of the key mysteries...
...DRIVER Postmortem tests showed that Paul was legally drunk and under the influence of two prescription drugs on the night of the accident. Less known is the fact that Paul's blood contained an abnormally high level of carbon monoxide (CO): 20.7%, enough to provoke somnolence, severe dizziness or even put some people in a coma. "I don't see how he could walk in that state, much less take the wheel," says the head of the antipoison center at a major Paris hospital...
Tomlinson, who requested the meeting with the judges, related a hodgepodge of allegations, including his suspicion that the driver, Henri Paul, had once been a paid informant of MI6. But according to Tomlinson, the judges seemed most interested in his contention that a freelance British photographer who covered the royals had regularly briefed MI6 on Diana?s doings. The judges are trying to learn the identity of a mustachioed English-speaking photographer who was at the Ritz Hotel the night of the crash, and they may have hoped that Tomlinson could shed light on the possibility that an MI6 agent...
...just about 10:30 a.m. the customary delivery was being made by the embassy's water truck. Driver Joseph Shamte, a trusted embassy employee, stopped at the first set of gates, where the guards began their routine check underneath the vehicle. Without warning, a massive explosion engulfed the truck and blew it 50 ft. over the fence, separating the water tank from the chassis and incinerating the cab and Shamte. Five security guards died instantly, along with four others. Missing, though, was Saidi Rogati, the "truck boy" who normally accompanied Shamte and who had worked for the embassy...
Americans buying cars are in the driver's seat, with vehicles more affordable than at any time in 18 years, according to a new study by Comerica Bank. Last week Ford said prices on its 1999 models would drop an average of 0.3%, the first such slide in 30 years. Prices at Chrysler and Nissan will also stay largely the same, with more options thrown...