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...Regent's Park, less than two miles away, the 30-man Royal Green Jackets Band was in the midst of playing a medley from the musical Oliver! when an equally powerful bomb pulverized the bandstand. It was 12:55. Said one of the 150 or so people who were attending the lunchtime concert: "Everything seemed to come up from the bottom of the bandstand and blow right into the air-bodies, instruments, everything. There were mangled bodies all over the deck chairs." The toll of the two grisly incidents: ten soldiers killed; 32 soldiers, two policemen and 21 civilians...
...Regent's Park the devastation was, if anything, worse. One concertgoer described the scene: "I counted 16 soldiers lying on the ground. One was groaning, with his hands on his stomach and blood pouring through them. Another's head was a mass of blood." Others spoke of bodies, and of a single leg, literally flying through the air. A kettledrum and French horn came to rest 30 yds. from the blast. Said a grim-faced survivor: "It was a massacre without warning. Children were splattered with bits of the bandsmen's bodies." Six musicians died. The other...
...nail bomb, probably hidden in the trunk of the car, was detonated by remote control from a spot within sight of the incident. If true, it was a measure of how cold-blooded the killers were. Police speculate that a similar device may have been used in the Regent's Park explosion...
...identifies in a handy program preceding the action. The first strong move is made by Perdikkas, who becomes No. 2 man in the empire after the death of Hephaistion. He was figuratively and literally Alexander's comrade-in-arms. Not of the blood, Perdikkas seeks to rule as regent until Alexander's as yet unborn offspring come...
Diana, Princess of Wales, 20, feeling much better, and explaining where her husband Charles was, after a ceremony in which she switched on Christmas lights in Regent Square: "I've left him at home watching the telly...