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...Scotland Yard Police Officer Roy Riggs, on the theft of more than 1000 pigeons from Trafalgar Square in London. The pigeon rustler apparently told bystanders that he was collecting them for pigeon races-a popular sport in England. Scotland Yard thinks the pilfered birds' destination are probably pigeon pie platters...
...nanny's lawyer sent warnings to the press not to repeat it, and the Queen had to be assured that the remark was untrue. Possibly as a result of her lip, Diana's long-term private secretary resigned, followed by his assistant and the chauffeur. Meanwhile, a Church of Scotland minister announced that Diana's father Earl Spencer told him as a young man that he had dated Princess Elizabeth before she became QEII. And the Queen's other daughter-in-law had the honor of becoming the first royal-family member to be sued over a debt. A society...
...crash was the deadliest involving a United States airliner since a Pan Am flight exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. Terrorists were blamed for that crash, which killed 270 people...
...CHIEFTAINS The Long Black Veil (RCA). Ireland's favorite sextet comes to call, the pipes and flutes and fiddles and all, with a breakthrough album after only thirtysomething years together. Paddy Moloney's charts for vocalists from Ireland (Van Morrison), England (Sting), Wales (Tom Jones) and Scotland (Mark Knopfler) do more than revive a splendid set of ancient airs. They are delicious dirges that could wake the dead. Keen music...
...have been made, is no doubt very exciting, but one cannot help wondering whether this will merely add to our already considerable store of facts about ancient Egyptian life or will finally lead to a better understanding of the chronology of events in that ancient past. DICK GAGEL Peterculter, Scotland...