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...parts of the world, wondered at first if it was possible for some tiny nation to fill its coffers by tapping into their inner sanctum. An international army of computer nerds and police experts soon tracked down the trespasser and pronounced it harmless. But what about the next one? Scotland Yard investigators, who traced the virus as far as eastern Germany, believe that disgruntled hackers there are still at work injecting disruptive electronic microbes into world financial networks...
Leading the parade of pared-down regiments: the royal household's elite Life Guards, which sprang up in 1659 to restore Charles II to the throne; and the Blues and Royals, whose origins go back to the early empire. Scotland will see four famous regiments fused into two. The Queen's Own Highlanders and the Gordon Highlanders will be united, and two Lowland units, the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the Royal Scots, will be merged. Sir John Chapple, Chief of the General Staff, tried to put the best face on the situation. "Our objective will be an army...
...legs, Lloyd's came up with a policy and calculated the appropriate premium. But disasters have a way of defying the laws of probability. Recent years have witnessed an extraordinary string: the Piper Alpha oil-rig blowout in the North Sea, the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and America's Hurricane Hugo. Last week Lloyd's announced that it would post a $980 million deficit for 1988 -- the most recent year on which books can be closed, since they are kept open for three years to allow for claims to be filed...
Ever since a suitcase bomb blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a few days before Christmas in 1988, suspicion has focused primarily on Iran and Syria. But now there is new information about another suspect: Libya. According to press reports in Europe and the U.S., French investigators have developed evidence that Libya plotted attacks on American and French targets beginning in September 1988. The Libyans supposedly directed terrorists to put a bomb aboard the Pan Am plane and another on a French U.T.A. DC-10 jet, which blew up over Africa in September 1989. The two explosions...
...simpler times was called masculinity. No wonder the role lured some of the cinema's top exemplars of derring-do. Douglas Fairbanks (1922), Errol Flynn (1938) and Sean Connery (1976) made memorable glosses on the English lord -- and no matter that the actors hailed, respectively, from Colorado, Tasmania and Scotland. Fairbanks soared, Flynn grinned, Connery smoldered, and each struck singular movie sparks...