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LONDON. Good news for the 7 million international passengers who change flights each year at Heathrow Airport: a new flight-connections center at last streamlines the process. Located between terminals 1 and 2, the three-level center handles immigra tion, security, customs and onward-ticketing procedures at one central point on the top floor. On the second floor, travelers can--for a fee--shower, nap on a recliner, have their clothes pressed, use fax and copy machines, hire secretarial support or work at stations equipped with computer links and telephones. A bus shuttle in the reception area on the ground...
...royal farce continues. Last week the Queen of England's corgis, gathered at London's Heathrow Airport to welcome her home after a glum royal tour of Canada, passed the time by terrorizing a German shepherd employed by the police. The cop dog was rescued. Meanwhile, the ravening tabloids were already squaring off for the November confrontation between two royal tell-all books: Jonathan Dimbleby's on Prince Charles, based on his recent TV program; and the sequel by Andrew Morton to his 1992 super-best seller on the Princess of Wales, called Diana: Her New Life...
Last week he was called to an expository task more complicated than usual. In three separate attacks, the I.R.A. had dropped 12 mortar shells into London's Heathrow Airport. Puzzlingly, none of them exploded. The only damage was to British nerves as flights were canceled and police shut down terminals to conduct security sweeps...
...Heathrow mortar shells ruin those hopes? Not at all, says Adams. The shells came during a "stalemate" in the process, and the attack might "have an accelerating effect upon the British government." Sinn Fein and the I.R.A. still want what they call "clarifications" from Britain before joining any talks. Until that happens, says Adams, "every so often there will be something spectacular to remind the world" that the conflict continues to boil...
...efforts to make himself all things to all people leave many wondering just where Gerry Adams really stands when it comes to the hard job of making peace. His calculated ambiguity could prove as damaging to hopes of progress as the mixed message of the unexploded shells at Heathrow...