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Police officials promptly centered their investigation on a Lebanese woman of about 30 who was traveling under the name May Elias Mansur. She had reportedly flown from Beirut to Cairo on March 25 and on the morning of April 2 had flown on the TWA plane from Cairo to Athens, along with only 16 other passengers. She arrived late for the flight, but Egyptian authorities insisted that her luggage had been inspected. The woman had been subjected to the usual body search, but because of the lateness of the hour was driven in an airline car rather than...
...said Mansur "had nothing to do with" planting the bomb and would sue everyone "who falsely accused" her of it. Police said there was no way to determine whether the statement was authentic...
...Christian Beirut radio station, the Voice of Lebanon, said Mansur had returned to Lebanon and was a member of the Revolutionary Brigades terrorist group...
...radio quoted unidentified sources as saying she is a Lebanese Christian, the widow of a Druse militiaman known as Abu Nisrin who was killed last year in Lebanon's civil war. It said Mansur was her maiden name...
...said Mansur was "subjected to the most rigorous of checks" and was driven to the plane because the shuttle bus assigned to the flight aready had left for the aircraft...