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Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...false alarms -- almost all the supposed bomb-grade goods on offer turned out to be fraudulent -- German police have in the past four months uncovered four cases of smuggled nuclear material that could actually be used to make an atom bomb. The biggest haul came on Aug. 10, when Lufthansa Flight 3369 from Moscow landed in Munich with 350 grams of atomic fuel aboard. As it happened, so was Viktor Sidorenko, Russia's Deputy Minister for Atomic Energy, whose agency supervises Moscow's stocks of fissionable materials. The lead-lined suitcase was carrying MOX -- mixed-oxide fuel for reactors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROLIFERATION: Formula for Terror | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...Swissair, with Austrian holding the remaining 10%. Starting with about 270 planes and more than 30 million passengers a year, the new aerocombine, which could come into existence as early as next year, will pose a major challenge to British Airways, Air France and Germany's Lufthansa -- once the unions are assuaged, negotiations are completed, and the boards of the four companies approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gathering of Eagles | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...French stores will < eventually see a drop in British prices as the single market forces member countries to harmonize their tax rates. France has already chopped its 33% value-added tax on automobiles, which kept French drivers from speeding across the border to buy lower-taxed German models. Lufthansa, Iberia and Air France have slashed airfares, signaling the opening of Europe's first air price war. Consumers are benefiting. But Bernard Attali, chairman of the board of Air France, warned that the "suicidal" consequences of cut-throat competition will be massive layoffs and fewer flights to small cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No One Ever Said It Would Be Easy | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...second time in nine days, a skyjacker has demanded passage to New York City. On Feb. 11, a 20-year-old Ethiopian armed with a starter's pistol pirated a Lufthansa jet to J.F.K. Airport, only to be promptly arrested. Last Saturday, a man tentatively identified as an Azeri commandeered a Russian jetliner on a flight from Siberia to St. Petersburg and demanded to be flown to New York. Persuaded to believe that the aircraft did not have enough fuel to cross the Atlantic, the hijacker agreed to stop in Tallinn, Estonia, then Stockholm, Sweden, where he finally surrendered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only to America | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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