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MARRIED. Andrew Lloyd Webber, 36, British pop composer (Cats, Evita); and Sarah Brightman, 23, dancer; both for the second time; in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England. They then sped back to London as husband and wife to meet the Queen at a preview of Webber's new musical, Starlight Express...
...teams of officers spring out of cars and collar their quarry. The scheme so surprised many of the arrestees that they could not immediately put two and two together. "Hey, that guy had a package for me!" screamed one of them as officers affixed the handcuffs while the truck sped off. Declared another: "You didn't have to be so mean, that truck was delivering me a package...
There was the additional problem of getting the film to New York City. A French-made Gazelle helicopter and two Yugoslav pilots sped the film from the slopes where the skiing events were held to the Sarajevo airport, 20 miles away. There a courier took the film on a chartered Learjet to London and by Concorde to New York City. One day the airport was closed, so Frey and TIME's Yugoslav driver, Jovan Vučkoviċ, set off on a hair-raising ride over winding, snow-covered mountain roads to Mostar, 84 miles away, where the Learjet...
...alleged rape sped discussion and implementation of the security modifications, Epps explained, but added that the panel did not make the changes with "specific references" to the incident...
...televised speech that the truck "crashed through a series of barriers, including a chain-link fence and barbed-wire entanglements. Guards opened fire, but it was too late." A week later, Marine Commandant General Paul X. Kelley asserted that the truck slammed through the barbed wire at 60 m.p.h., sped past two armed sentries, burst through an iron gate and jumped over an 18-in. pipe before exploding...