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...condition. This week's cover story on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 -- the fruit of a five-month investigation by Roy -- is the most far-reaching account to date of the mystery behind the 1988 tragedy over Lockerbie, Scotland. The trail of the story led him through Scandinavia, Germany, England, California and Washington, where he conducted more than 200 interviews and examined thousands of documents, including confidential memos from former U.S. and foreign intelligence agents. "This story just kept building and building," says Rowan. "Some of the real breakthroughs came in the past couple of weeks...
When it does, the area of greatest ozone depletion and greatest danger will most likely be north of 50 degrees north latitude, a line that nearly coincides with the U.S.-Canada border and also takes in all the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and much of Belgium, Germany and Russia. Regions farther to the south could be affected too, albeit not so severely. Life in the far north could come to resemble that in Australia, with ozone alerts and stern warnings to wear sunglasses and sunscreen...
...UNESCO convention on cultural property established an international framework to curb pillage and the illicit trade in artifacts. Among the rich countries that are the biggest markets for stolen works, however, only the U.S. and Canada signed the treaty. Britain, France, & Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, Scandinavia and Japan remain holdouts today...
Erik Mitchell, a huge Lego fan by his parents' admission, discovered that there are fringe benefits to having a father who loves Scandinavia; he was able to visit the Legoland theme park on a recent trip to Denmark...
...addressed its shipments to cities like Kiev and Smolensk that had suffered most from Hitler's aggression during World War II. They also are worried that unless the food crisis is brought under control, Western Europe will face a flood of Soviet refugees. Nations along the Soviet border from Scandinavia to Czechoslovakia are bracing for that possibility. Fearing instability, Poland last week even decided to beef up its troop deployments along the Soviet border...