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...Greek sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a woman called May Elias Mansur, a known terrorist, flew on the TWA Boeing 727 from Cairo to Athens Wednesday morning. The plane went on to Rome, and the bomb exploded during its return flight from Rome to Athens Wednesday afternoon...
...have a launched a search around Athens and other cities and also put out a signal to trace this person through Interpol," one police source said. Earlier yesterday in Rome, Italian Interior Minister Oscar Luigi Scalfaro said, "It is certain that a suspect person, who is on file as a terrorist, got on in Cairo and got off in Athens, occupying in the airplane the exact seat where the explosion occurred...
Seven other people, including four Americans, were injured aboard the Boeing 727--Flight 840 from Rome--which landed safely in Athens 10 minutes later, a gaping hole in its side, officials reported...
Helena Shultz, her head covered with a black mantilla, stood in a front row next to Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti, who met with Shultz in Rome Saturday. The U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, William Wilson, was at Shultz's side...
...genius for transforming loot into colossally vulgar display, ostentation on an imperial scale. The Emperor Elagabalus, it is said, ordered his slaves to bring him 10,000 lbs. of cobwebs. When they finished the task, Elagabalus observed, "From this, one can understand how great a city is Rome." Louis XIV of France wore a diamond-covered coat that, at the turn of the 18th century, was worth a dazzling 14 million francs: the Sun King got up in the splendors of Liberace...