Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radio-cassette player: innocuous-looking, compact, popular with travelers. To a terrorist, the perfect place to conceal a bomb. British authorities concluded last week that the explosive device that blew up Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December was hidden in a radio-cassette player. The Federal Aviation Administration immediately advised tighter checks on electronic goods at airports...
...only makes one brief appearance in swim attire, the director clearly plays up her fame as a model in the film. When she sits down, she does not merely sit, as would most actresses; rather, she assumes a pose that allows the camera to take a slow-mo pan of her body for the audience's enjoyment...
...intervention. He established his bona fides as tough guy so thoroughly that, unlike Carter, he was largely immune to political damage when terrorists demonstrated in bloody fashion just how vulnerable the country still is. Two hundred forty-one servicemen died in Beirut, and 259 people were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 went down last month. In the Tehran crisis that destroyed Carter, the hostages survived...
Whyte alluded to what some investigators concede is a distressing possibility: the Pan Am bombers may never be identified, much less punished. Despite suspicions that focus on Palestinian terrorist leaders Ahmed Jibril and Abu Nidal, no clues have turned up so far that prove either of them orchestrated the atrocity. As an American intelligence official put it, "There's nothing out there...
...bomb had been slipped into one of four uninspected U.S. military mail pouches loaded onto Flight 103 at its point of origin at the Frankfurt airport. It turned out that the mail was intended for American military personnel stationed in Britain and was unloaded at Heathrow Airport before the Pan Am plane's ill-fated takeoff for New York. But according to some West German reports, British investigators now suspect the bomb was planted by a worker at London's Heathrow Airport. British officials called the claim "pure speculation...