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...whisked the couple away in a different car. Rees-Jones reiterated those statements last week, and fellow bodyguard Wingfield confirms that Dodi made these fateful decisions. But it is also clear that other senior Ritz officials were aware of the plan to use an extra Mercedes for a surreptitious getaway and even took part in organizing...
...ranch was just a getaway, but Reagan the actor knew how to turn a piece of dirt into a stage for a simple cowboy, gamboling in the wide-open spaces, in touch with the eternal verities. The place is already Disneyfied: Climb Mount Rhino, the resting place of the family pets as well as Ronnie's steed Little Man! Visit Heart Rock, where Ronnie and Nancy carved their initials! See where Queen Elizabeth slept! Launch a boat on Lake Lucky, the pond where Reagan kept his goldfish! But don't expect Wally World, or even the run of the place...
...blew town Aug. 15 for a one-week remote-island getaway, you could have concluded upon returning that you hadn't missed a thing on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average was at 7942 when you departed; 7894 when you reappeared, a pimple of a drop. But you would have been wrong--and missed the perverse pleasure of watching hordes of young traders sweating through their custom-made threads while the market extended and retracted like a bungee jumper flung off the George Washington Bridge...
...trying to build a death penalty case against Nichols say they have evidence he built the bomb. They also say in court motions made public yesterday that Nichols acquired fertilizer and other bomb ingredients, robbed a gun dealer to pay for the bomb and helped McVeigh drop off the getaway car. McVeigh was formally sentenced to death last week. Nichols goes on trial Sept...
...April 16 a security camera near the Murrah building recorded a 1984 GMC truck driving by, and since Nichols owned a GMC truck of the same year, the government tried to use the video to corroborate its theory that he picked up McVeigh that night, after he parked his getaway car. But the defense easily popped this balloon, pointing out that dozens of people in the area might own such trucks. The FBI did not find McVeigh's fingerprints on the truck rental agreement, the ignition key or other pieces of evidence (although an expert testified that this...