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...bomb is aboard their flight? They may have to, if the Bush Administration adopts the recommendations of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, which last week proposed some 60 strong steps for avoiding another tragedy like the midair destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. That disaster, said the commission's tough 182-page report, "may well have been preventable." The report blamed Pan Am's "seriously flawed" security system for loading an apparently unaccompanied suitcase containing a plastic explosive into the cargo hold of the New York-bound Boeing...
Semtex's most famous target was Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, killing all 259 on board and eleven people on the ground. Scottish officials have concluded that a terrorist group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command blew / up the plane by concealing Semtex in a radio-cassette player and smuggling it aboard in a suitcase. Semtex is also thought to have been used to destroy a French DC-10 over the Sahara last September, killing 170 people. While visiting London last week, President Vaclav Havel acknowledged that...
...elegiac title poem Westward is about another journey, from London's Euston Station by rail toward the Western Isles of Scotland. Contemplating Margaret Thatcher's England, she reflects on the "frayed-/ out gradual of the retreat from empire." The Prairie is a reverie, expressed with extreme simplicity, on the peregrinations of her forebears from the Midwest to California and back again. "To be landless, half a nomad, nowhere wholly/ at home, is to discover, now, an epic theme/ in going back," she concludes. Clampitt is wisest when she is plainest. At her best, she writes poetry that, in Marianne Moore...
...victory was in doubt until the final event, the pole vault. Returning from a semester abroad in Scotland and with only one week of preparation, Scott Short vaulted 14-ft., 6-in. to place first and secure the come-from-behind win for the Crimson...
...names. Once you've learned how to pronounce it, who can resist ordering a dram of Bunnahabhain? (Try Bu-na-HA-ven.) Worldwide, the single- malt sales leader is Glenfiddich, owned by William Grant & Sons, but in the U.S. it runs a distant second to the Glenlivet, produced by Scotland's oldest licensed distillery (1824) and a shrewd purchase by Seagram...