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...Before the Boeing TWA aircraft left for Kennedy airport, it was parked in Pit No. 22, where a team of some 15 maintenance experts inspected it," said Dionyssios Kalofonos, director of the Greek Civil Aviation Authority. "The plane was not left unattended for a minute." Furthermore, insisted Evangelos Markoulis, spokesman for the Public Order Ministry, "to be precise, a time-bomb device has 12 hours minus one minute to blow up. Therefore, if such a mechanism had been planted on board the aircraft, it would have gone off after it landed at Kennedy." A direct flight to New York from...
...that the pilot divert the flight and told the passengers and crew: "If I put these two wires together, this bomb will blow up." The plane landed in Miami at about 3 p.m. ET Friday. Police rushed the plane and took Ibrahim into custody. Francisco Garcia, a Spanish government spokesman, reported that Ibrahim ended up on the flight a few days after he escaped from a refugee camp in Southern Lebanon. As for the motivation, FBI spokesman Paul Philip said Ibrahim "simply did not want to go to Havana. He wanted to go to the U.S." He got his wish...
...ordinance went into effect, the board voted to amend it and allow businesses to exercise "reasonable" judgment in delivering to certain spots. Kennedy called this a "stab in the back," but board president Kevin Shelley insists the revision is needed to address legitimate issues of worker safety. Domino's spokesman Tim McIntyre points out that Domino's delivers to more inner-city areas than most chains--and says the computer system helps them do it safely...
...rule out UFOs," a power-company spokesman deadpanned. "I think we can rule out computer hackers." The official theory at week's end: a Wyoming power plant's transmission lines may have short-circuited, triggering a ripple effect throughout the Western power grid. Yeah, right...
...mind, it will return to the body. According to physician and spiritual healer Deepak Chopra, the whole system needs to be treated. I hope that more of the medical community will take the opportunity to bridge the mind-body connection, looking to Chopra as the leader, the spokesman helping to bring medicine and mysticism closer together. JAMES SMALLWOOD Santa Barbara, California...