Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan. And never, never, never let you forget...
...Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Yuko M. Miyazaki '92 Julio R. Varela '90 Editorial Editor: Andrew J. Bates '90 Adam L. Berger '91 Features Editor: Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Gavin R. Villareal '90 Business Editor: Raymond Nomizu '91 Philip P. Pan...
...Pressured by a $300 million lawsuit for compensatory damages filed by more than 100 families, Pan Am has subpoenaed records of six U.S. Government agencies including the CIA, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the State Department. The subpoena suggests that Israel or West Germany relayed serious warnings of a bombing to the U.S. -- and that the warnings were not passed on to Pan Am. The Flight 103 families say Pan Am may merely be trying to shift the blame so it can wriggle out of paying huge claims...
...wildest allegation so far, an internal report by an investigator for Pan Am's insurance carrier suggests that the CIA unwittingly allowed the bomb aboard Flight 103 to protect a hostage-for-drugs operation. The report states that Monzer al Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer, was permitted to ship drugs through a "protected" route at Frankfurt in exchange for promises to help free American hostages in Lebanon. The subpoenas filed by Pan Am suggest that the CIA may even have a videotape of the bomb-laden suitcase being loaded in Frankfurt. The CIA and British authorities categorically deny these allegations...
...families' estrangement from the Government and anger at Pan Am began almost as soon as Flight 103 fell from the sky. As television displayed the plane's splintered wreckage, relatives were told to wait patiently for the State Department to return their calls. Some sat seething by their telephones for as long as three days while calls bounced between agencies. When relatives of John Ahern, 26, went to New York City's Kennedy Airport, they were directed to a livestock warehouse where his body was forklifted off a plane in a cardboard box. No Pan Am or Government representative...