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Wilkes cited a study by the National Academy of Sciences that found that at least 50 million acres of rainforest a year are lost--an area the size of England, Wales and Scotland combined. These areas are home to about half the five to 10 million plant and animal species on the globe. Unless action is taken, the report says, by the year 2000 one-fifth of the remaining rainforest will disappear, destroying about half-a-million species...
...wreckage and bodies strewn over miles of empty sand, suggesting that the aircraft had broken up at high altitude. U.S. ^ air-safety experts flown in to investigate agreed that the fragmented evidence suggested a "Lockerbie-type explosion," a reference to the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland last Dec. 21, killing all 259 aboard. On Saturday investigators said data from flight recorders confirmed that a midair explosion had caused the crash, touching off an intensive search for those responsible...
...iron ore flowing south from Narvik to Hitler, Churchill then worked out a plan to lay mines along the Norwegian coast and even to seize the main Norwegian ports. That was supposed to begin April 8, 1940, but Hitler learned of the plan. British troops were already embarked in Scotland when the news came that the Germans were moving to land in both Denmark and Norway...
That very night, Britons learned of the first such sacrifice: 200 miles west of Scotland in the North Atlantic, the unarmed British liner Athenia, carrying 1,400 passengers from Liverpool to Montreal, was hit and sunk by a torpedo from the German submarine U-30; 112 passengers, including 28 Americans, died...
Recriminations keep dogging the tragedy of Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up last December over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270. Britain's Ministry of Transport came under fire for having failed to respond soon enough to terrorist bomb threats against U.S. airliners. Last week West German officials were embarrassed by charges that Bonn may have fumbled a chance to prevent the bomb from being smuggled onto the plane...