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...hate you!" Hindawi, also 32, appeared unmoved by the outburst. As his trial began last week at London's Old Bailey courthouse, Hindawi faced charges of trying to blow up an El Al jet by planting a time bomb in the bag of his pregnant fiancée. Had the plot succeeded, Murphy and the 374 other people aboard would have perished somewhere over Austria. Declared Prosecutor Roy Amlot: "It was one of the most callous acts of all time...
...month left ten people dead and more than 160 injured. In an interview with TIME (see following story), Syrian President Hafez Assad denied that Syria had anything to do with the attempted bombing of the El Al jetliner and charged that Hindawi's actions were part of an Israeli plot to discredit Damascus. The farfetched theme was echoed by Loutof Haydar, Syria's Ambassador to Britain, whom Hindawi has implicated in the El Al scheme. Haydar reportedly dismissed the charge as a "setup to defame Syria." In addition, the state-controlled Damascus Radio charged that U.S. and Israeli agents were...
...Middle East Bureau Chief Dean Fischer. Assad not only rejected allegations of a Syrian terror connection but as usual accused Israel of terrorist activity and of being responsible for Middle East tensions in general. Though he offered no evidence, Assad broached his own elaborate theory of an Israeli plot in the London El Al incident. Assad, 56, who suffered a serious heart ailment three years ago, appeared in sound health and full of confidence; no question, he said, would embarrass him. During a four-hour conversation, his words on terrorism and regional tensions were occasionally leavened by banter...
...really believe that Israeli intelligence could be behind a plot against an Israeli plane...
Despite the plot's implausibilities, Süskind's fable proves effective in several ways. Born half a century before the French Revolution, Grenouille is a foretaste of modern man as monstrous solipsist or, as a contemporary describes him, an "entirely new specimen of the race." The novel's emphasis on the sense of smell is disquieting, given the deodorizing proclivities of modern life: "The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it." And those readers who feel...