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...report by an investigator for Pan Am's insurance carrier suggests that the CIA unwittingly allowed the bomb aboard Flight 103 to protect a hostage-for-drugs operation. The report states that Monzer al Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer, was permitted to ship drugs through a "protected" route at Frankfurt in exchange for promises to help free American hostages in Lebanon. The subpoenas filed by Pan Am suggest that the CIA may even have a videotape of the bomb-laden suitcase being loaded in Frankfurt. The CIA and British authorities categorically deny these allegations...
...Ever since I was little, I saved up to go on a mission," Griffin says. In Germany, Griffin went to different towns in the Frankfurt area talking with people interested in the Mormon Church and also trying to help people sort out family problems...
Stock indexes fell 1.8 percent in Tokyo, 3.2 percent in London and a steep 12.8percent in Frankfurt, West Germany, where onetrader described trading as a "bloodbath...
Much of the author's experience is the vicarious quest for material and a hard-boiled persona. He becomes knowledgeable about firearms by reading about them; he familiarizes himself with the latest in sex toys by researching them at a Frankfurt porno shop. But his education in cardiology is firsthand. "In the seventh year of the Reagan kakistocracy, the medical dyes shooting through my arterial freeways were forced to make a detour around a major obstruction," he writes with calculated self-mockery...
...play sly variations on the formulas. Left-wing Robyn, for example, decries Vic's factory as a hellish model of capitalism in extremis and dismisses his maneuvers against rival companies as "a lot of little dogs squabbling over bones." Yet while tagging along to a trade show in Frankfurt, she can't resist helping him bring off a negotiating coup for a piece of automatic machinery that will replace several workers. Vic charges that Robyn's scholarly concerns have no place on society's balance sheet and that the university's elitism violates her own populist ideals. Yet he soon...