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...explosion might have resulted from a malfunction, but investigators doubted it; the blast occurred toward the tail section, probably in the baggage or mail compartment. Only three hours earlier, an Austrian Airlines plane bound from Frankfurt to Vienna (where some of its mail was to be transferred to another AUA flight to Tel Aviv) had been buffeted by a similar explosion that tore a hole in its fuselage. Luckily, the Austrian's pilot was able to land safely at Frankfurt, where experts traced the explosion to a mailbag labeled for Israel. In Amman, an obscure Arab terrorist organization called...
Then began a nightmarish, nine-day odyssey of 17,069 miles. When she sought to return to Kenya, she was refused entry. Three other countries rejected her pleas for admission. She drifted to airports in Frankfurt, Zurich, Athens, Nairobi and Johannesburg, still clad in the same lime-green sari and red cardigan she wore when she left home. She was near collapse: "I have lived on rolls and coffee for a week," she said. "I just want to go to bed and sleep...
...Bishop Matthias Defregger, 54, of Munich, was publicly accused of having participated in the wartime executions of 17 men from the Italian village of Filetto di Camarda; Defregger, then a Wehrmacht captain, had passed on the execution order avenging the murder of one or more German soldiers. Authorities in Frankfurt eventually dropped the case. Last week, however, the Munich prosecutor had taken up the Defregger affair and was contemplating charges...
...report prompted one West German newspaper to comment that Americans abroad are paid "ducal salaries." It has stirred a somewhat different reaction from U.S. executives in Europe. "I read that and gulped hard," says Ed ward Roach, European marketing director for Honeywell Inc., who is transferring this month from Frankfurt to Brussels. "Only if you're willing to live like a native can you do pretty well." The trouble, according to some overseas executives, is that living like a native often means squeezing a family into a cramped apartment and doing without some amenities that Americans take for granted...
...pound hit a record low of $2.3813 in London, apparently because the Bank of England felt it safe to support the price at a lower level than the $2.3825 it usually tries to maintain as a floor. The value of the U.S. dollar dropped against the mark in Frankfurt but held steady elsewhere. The free-market price of gold moved scarcely at all-even though that volatile price is supposed to shoot up on any widespread doubts about the value of paper money...