Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wendy Giebler finishes her job as a video production manager in Haverstraw, N.Y., each day, she starts a second shift of a more passionate nature. At home she spends five hours writing letters, preparing testimony, drafting speeches and devouring all the information she can find on how and why Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, last December, killing 270 people. One of the victims was William Giebler, 29, a bond broker who had married Wendy less than a year earlier. "I have nothing else left to live for," says Giebler, who transformed her grief into action. "This...
...officials, their early efforts to lobby for improved airline safety quickly hardened into demands for the British, German and U.S. governments to disclose what they know about the bombing. Bert Ammerman, a high school assistant principal who lost his brother Tom and now heads a group called Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, calls Washington a "cesspool of unaccountability." After months of lobbying Congress and a meeting with President Bush, the families finally persuaded the Administration to establish a Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, which began hearings last week...
...European press lost its appetite for unraveling the Pan Am mystery. Since last summer, newspapers and magazines in Britain and Germany have bannered a disturbing mix of unsubstantiated charges and possibly valuable clues about the bombing...
...West German police apprehended 16 suspected terrorists but then released all but two of them in October 1988, after discovering a cache of explosives and a bomb similar to the one used to destroy Flight 103 eight weeks later. Marwan Khreesat, a Jordanian who some authorities believe assembled the Pan Am bomb, was among those set free. Published stories contend that Khreesat was also a German intelligence agent; German authorities deny...
...Nayak '92 Stephen J. Newman '92 James E. Schwartz '88 Features Editor: Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Editorial Editor: Gary L. Susman '89 Sports Editors: Casey J. Lartigue '89 Michael J. Lartigue '89 Photo Editor: Peter H. Miller '90 Business Editor: Christopher R. Wysocki '91 Copy Editor: Philip P. Pan...