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...Congo is known primarily as an epicenter of genocide and ethnic cleansing. And it was, of course, Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi’s henchmen who blew up a West Berlin discotheque in 1986 and were also implicated in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people...
...police seized a cache of explosives including tnt and C4 they believe was destined for Sri Lanka. "Acquisitions are still continuing," says one diplomat referring to intelligence reports. Adds Rohan Gunaratna of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland: "Looking at their procurement picture, by monitoring their shipping and banking networks and their buying officers, we are seeing no change in their clandestine activities." From Cambodia in particular, says Gunaratna, the Tigers have bought and shipped "a large quantity" of artillery shells and weapons in the past three months...
...successful birth—should be banned on safety grounds. The state of current research makes the procedure likely to produce a deformed or otherwise diseased clone, if it even survives. Since researchers in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1997, they have discovered severe arthritis in her and other signs of early aging. Scientists believe similar difficulties would occur in human reproductive cloning, and those liabilities make it extremely unwise to experiment with the procedure...
Elizabeth never ceased to think of herself as a country lass from Scotland. Every August she repaired to her home at the Castle of Mey on the coast of northern Scotland. There she loved to listen to her collection of bagpipe records, to don waders and go fishing for salmon with Prince Charles or simply to tramp through the rain, chatting with the locals...
That lively spirit and unaffected dignity disarmed even her enemies. A trouble-making South African once approached her with this challenge: "I don't think much of royalty. I think South Africa ought to be a republic." Without skipping a beat, Elizabeth replied, "That's how we feel in Scotland too, but the English won't allow it." Such remarks were rarely for public consumption and often self-deprecating: "You think I'm a nice person," she told her friend Woodrow Wyatt in the 1980s. "I'm really not a nice person...