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While living in germany, our family flew TWA Flight 800. Recently we traveled again to Frankfurt, and as a security professional I was impressed with the thoroughness of TWA security measures. TWA, however, is a flagship carrier to many places that are especially dangerous for Americans. In this brave new world, some U.S. cities are equally dangerous. We must be patient, follow prudent security measures, know that actions carry risks and prosecute criminals no matter where they hide. GLORIA CASTRO HEARN Boulder City, Nevada
...electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime. The U.S. was then able to charge that Libyan intelligence agents had tagged a brown "bomb bag" containing the radio with stolen Air Malta tags and placed it on an Air Malta Flight KM-190 routed to Frankfurt, whence it eventually was loaded onto Pan Am Flight 103. It was detonated by a simple timing device. Libya has been under U.N. economic sanctions since April 1992. Last week Thurman was on the scene in Long Island as parts of the TWA plane were dragged out of the surf...
...often years ahead of United States ones. And never, ever (in my experience) do the alumni realize that once upon a time, in secondary school or even earlier, they learned a language other than English not because they might one day have business in Quebec or be stationed in Frankfurt (what rural New England kids heard in 1962 before anyone mentioned "junior year abroad") but in part at least, in order to learn how to learn...
...demographic trend could explain. For two years, crime has declined in all 76 precincts. Murder is down 39%, auto theft 35%. Robberies are off by a third, burglaries by a quarter. No wonder Comstat has become the Lourdes of policing, drawing pilgrim cops from around the world--Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Zimbabwe, Taiwan--for a taste of New York's magic...
Beleagured financial writers constantly struggle for interesting ways to say that prices rose, fell or went nowhere. But someone at Knight-Ridder really scraped bottom Wednesday reporting a slow day on the German stock market. The story, datelined Frankfurt, began: "Lethargic and stuck in a 3-point range, the DAX shares index was about as lively as Dean Martin before closing unchanged from Friday in its first floor session following the death Monday of the singer and Hollywood celebrity...