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Servants in the Lindbergh home were, of course, immediately examined. They were Oliver Wheatley, the English butler, and his wife and Betty Gow, 26, who immigrated from Scotland four years ago and had been with the Lindberghs more than a year. Scotland Yard double-checked their records abroad. The New Jersey Police exonerated them publicly. Nurse Gow might still be implicated, for Major Charles Schoeffel went to England a month after the abduction on a mission whose nature was not explained. And it was Nurse Gow who brought Henrik Finn ("Red") Johnsen into the case...
...California Representative John Doolittle and Arizona Representative J.D. Hayworth, who used the skyboxes but did not report their use as campaign donations, as required by law. DeLay and a number of other lawmakers are in hot water as well for accepting Abramoff-arranged foreign golfing junkets, including one to Scotland's fabled St. Andrews course. The Washington Post reported Saturday that DeLay's trip was indirectly financed by Indian tribes and gambling interests through payments to a nonprofit policy group that was sponsoring the trip. House rules would have prohibited direct payment. Most of the politicians who took trips organized...
...episode has the capital twittering with gossip about espionage and sex. It's also a reminder of the Cold- War days when John Symonds, the kgb's so-called "Romeo agent," visited the country. "I did a lot of damage down there in Australia," says the former Scotland Yard detective, contacted by Time at his home in England...
...MEANWHILE IN SCOTLAND ... In-Law of the Land The Scottish executive announced plans to allow men to marry their former mothers-in-law, by revising centuries-old legislation based on the Old Testament injunction that if a man slept with his wife's mother, all three should be burned alive. The new legislation will also permit women to marry ex-fathers-in-law. It's not clear how many Scots want to pursue such unions; the ban remains in force in England and Wales...
...next election. March 2004 Blair allegedly tells Brown that he will stand down in the fall. May 2004 Less than a week after Brown and Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott are said to discuss the succession in the car park of the Loch Fyne Oyster bar in Argyll, Scotland, Prescott says publicly that "[tectonic] plates appear to be moving" within the party. Summer 2004 Encouraged by loyalists in the Cabinet, as well as by the Tories' inability to capitalize in local and European elections under new leader Michael Howard, Blair allegedly changes his mind about stepping down. Brown reportedly tells...