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...their right to sue Lloyd's or its agents for policies covered in the restructuring. The plan would put money-losing insurance policies into a new reinsurance company called Equitas Group, allowing individual investors to exit Lloyd's and limit their losses. "The only problem," says TIME's Helen Gibson. "Is that if the restructuring plan doesn't work, the names can't walk away. They are still responsible for the losses." But the plan, if successful, would allow this venerable British institution to move forward. Terence Nelan
...Nations Commission on Refugees, and the Iraqi Community Association of London into the loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly excited," says TIME's Helen Gibson in London."The hijackers simply didn't want to go back to Iraq. They would rather face the relatively luxurious British social security system with its dole and housing benefits than an Iraqi jail or Saddam's firing squad." The hijackers took over a Sudanese jetliner initially headed to Amman...
...Johnson Space Center, meanwhile, researchers are back at their instruments, gathering ammunition for what could be a long battle with their critics in the scientific community. "We feel we can already see a cell wall," says NASA's Gibson hopefully. NASA administrators were also busy, re-examining their scientific launch schedule, which includes two missions to Mars before the end of the year, and coyly suggesting that final confirmation may require sending rovers--and perhaps even people--to gather samples for closer analysis...
Bring out the photo album of recollected parts: Bob Gibson's scowl, Stan Musial's shy smile, Junior Gilliam's wrists, Mickey Mantle's back, Don Mattingly's sloping shoulders...
...beauty or notorious anecdotes. She was all voice, in the days when pop intersected with country. On her albums, swirling violins would blend with Floyd Cramer's tinkly piano and the unobtrusive harmonies of the Jordanaires. She recorded songs by the top country scribes (Hank Cochran, Willie Nelson, Don Gibson, Carl Perkins, Buck Owens, Mel Tillis), but she also covered Cole Porter's True Love; and Walkin' After Midnight was a Tin Pan Alley tune that had been written for pop songbird Kay Starr. The source of Cline's material hardly mattered. She made it all seem part...