Word: frankfurt
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...steal Air Malta baggage tags. The end of the story, as spelled out in the indictments: sometime between 8:15 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. on Dec. 21, 1988, Fhimah and Bassett tagged the bag containing the bomb and placed it on Air Malta Flight KM-190 to Frankfurt. There it was transferred to a Pan Am flight to London, where it was reloaded onto Flight 103 for New York -- passing over Lockerbie...
...were several KGB agents skulking around the Frankfurt Book Fair recently? Like everybody else, they were looking for deals. The Soviet spymasters are conducting one of the most extraordinary auctions in history. To raise hard cash, they intend to sell large portions of their secret archives, according to the Nov. 4 issue of the weekly New York Observer. The files may contain answers to some of the most intriguing questions of the cold war era: How close did the U.S. and the Soviet Union come to war over Cuba? Were the Rosenbergs really Soviet spies? One problem will...
...year earlier. And after dismissing nearly 70,000 employees since 1987, or more than 20% of Wall Street's total work force, some firms have gingerly begun to hire again. Goldman, Sachs has added 44 new associates to work on mergers and other deals. The firm also opened a Frankfurt office for international deals. Declares Alain Lebec, a managing partner and co-director of mergers and acquisitions for Merrill Lynch: "Things are better across the board. Our clients are more interested in exploring acquisitions, and the quality of the work is more real and less speculative...
...Three U.S. carriers: Delta. The Atlanta-based airline bested its rivals with a $1.7 billion bid for assets that will put Delta on a par with megacarriers American and United. Delta will acquire Pan Am's Northeastern shuttle, its North Atlantic routes and the airline's strategic hub in Frankfurt. Pan Am will survive as a shadow of its once mighty self, providing service to the Caribbean and Latin America. But Delta will have a piece of that action too, owning 45% of the scaled-down...
...weapons-grade uranium. B.C.C.I reportedly provided credit for the deal. But Pakistan, home of B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, denied -- as it has in the past -- that it seeks to develop nuclear arms, and said the government had no connection with Inam, who was arrested by German authorities in Frankfurt last month on an international warrant...