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...federal jury in New York City made the first award to relatives of a victim of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland -- and it was a whopper. The family of Robert Pagnucco, an assistant general counsel at PepsiCo and one of the 270 people killed in the terrorist bombing, was granted $9.2 million. A previous trial had held Pan Am responsible for its lax security. Although the defunct airline plans to appeal that finding, its insurers could face more million-dollar verdicts in the 200 or so compensation cases brought by the families of other...
...cities and pick up more American travelers for its transatlantic flights. Although foreign ownership of American airlines is limited to a 49% stake and 25% of voting stock, European and Asian carriers have rushed to make deals. KLM Royal Dutch bought 20% of Northwest in 1989, and in 1988 Pan Pacific Hoteliers Inc., a subsidiary of Japan Airlines, took a 20% position in Hawaiian Airlines...
Students, he says, ask him to discuss the Pan-African thinkers who believed an international racial alliance was the only way to solve the problems of American blacks and Africans...
...music. When the form had its heyday, its songs were the pop mainstream. Now there is no pop mainstream -- music, like the radio that delivers it, has become demographically fragmented -- but rock is the nearest equivalent. So long as Broadway keeps spurning that propulsive sound in favor of Tin Pan Alley bygones and pseudo operettas, it confines its appeal to the elderly of all ages...
LOCKERBIE LIABILITY. In a victory for the families of the 270 people who died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a federal jury in New York City found the defunct airline and two of its subsidiaries guilty of willful misconduct in allowing a bomb to be smuggled aboard. Two Libyans were indicted for the bombing last year, and Pan Am argued unsuccessfully that it should not be held responsible for the work of terrorists. Damages are still to be assessed; the plaintiffs are seeking more than $300 million, which would be paid...