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...wheel of the white Fiat Uno that evidently collided with Princess Diana's Mercedes moments before the final, fatal crash...
Since late October, French police have examined nearly 4,000 Fiat Unos in search of a vehicle showing signs of a recent paint job or rear-end repair. That investigation is still proceeding, and it has taken intriguing turns. Sources close to the investigation have told TIME that in November the French police thought they had their man. Debris found at the crash site, paint deposited on the Mercedes and other forensic evidence had led investigators to conclude that there had indeed been a tangential collision with a second car and that the other vehicle was a white Fiat...
...behaved "abnormally." He zig-zagged, kept turning around to look behind him and at one point hit the brakes and pulled over to the right, apparently trying to park. His car made a loud roar as if its muffler had been damaged. As Francois and Valerie passed the Fiat and continued on their way, they noticed a large dog in the back...
...from 1983 to 1989. One by one, owners were called into police stations and interrogated about their whereabouts the night of Aug. 30. Their cars were closely inspected. In late November the search came upon a brown-haired man who regularly transported dogs in his car and whose white Fiat Uno had recently been repaired and repainted bright red. The owner was not a stranger to French authorities. The investigative file states that although the man has no arrest record, he is "unfavorably known to police." The man was hauled in for questioning and his car sent for analysis...
DIED. GIOVANNI ALBERTO AGNELLI, 33, great-grandson of the founder of the Fiat empire and heir apparent at the corporation; of intestinal cancer; in Turin. Company legend had the dashing but unpretentious Agnelli working as a lathe operator to savor blue-collar life. He had been expected to succeed Cesare Romiti (who took over as chairman from Agnelli's famous uncle Gianni...