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...paying $100,000 in bribes to Pakistani customs officials. The band unloaded large wooden crates from several containers. "They were so heavy we had to use a crane rather than a forklift," says a participant. The crates were trucked to a "secure airport" and loaded aboard an unmarked 707 jet, where an American, believed by the black-unit members to be a CIA agent, supervised the frantic activity...
...Lima, where a probe of B.C.C.I.'s stewardship of Peru's central-bank funds is under way, local investigators are trying to trace what happened to money in an aborted B.C.C.I.-brokered deal to sell French-made Mirage jet fighters to the impoverished nation. Sources in the clandestine arms trade say B.C.C.I. eventually sold the planes to Pakistan and India...
...process into a full-scale rout. The airlines were loaded with debt after a decade of mergers, frantic expansion and multibillion-dollar orders for new aircraft. The approach of the gulf war brought a sharp run-up in oil prices, adding $2 billion, or 12.5%, to the industry's jet-fuel costs. Then, in a desperate bid to fill seats as the recession deepened and war jitters sidelined travelers, U.S. airlines slashed fares. By last April, 95% of all U.S. air passengers were traveling on the cheap, according to the Airline Monitor, an industry-research monthly. Despite a heady...
...jet departing from the Saudi capital of Riyadh caught fire when one of the passengers lighted a butane stove in an aisle to brew tea, killing 301, mostly Saudi Arabians and Pakistanis...
...According to press reports in Europe and the U.S., French investigators have developed evidence that Libya plotted attacks on American and French targets beginning in September 1988. The Libyans supposedly directed terrorists to put a bomb aboard the Pan Am plane and another on a French U.T.A. DC-10 jet, which blew up over Africa in September 1989. The two explosions killed a total of 441 people...