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...that is, until last week. At 9:41 on Tuesday morning, a Belarussian helicopter gunship opened fire on a balloon captained by Alan Fraenckel, 55, an airline pilot with TWA, and his partner, John Stuart-Jervis, 68, a retired British pilot who made his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Within seconds they were dead--shot out of the sky over a remote Belarussian forest...
...balloons to cross their airspace. Pilots, after all, could not fully control where the winds took them. Having received approval from every government, including Belarus', the balloons ascended from Wil, near the Swiss city of St. Gallen, at 7:45 a.m. Over the next 60 hours, Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis, together with two other balloons also piloted by Americans, drifted north toward Dresden, passed through Germany and eventually entered Poland. By 9:30 a.m. last Tuesday, they were poised to cross the Polish-Belarussian border...
Belarus claims that information never reached officials at the military base, 100 miles southwest of Minsk, where a blip produced by Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis' balloon suddenly appeared on radar screens, dangerously close to one of several strategic missile bases that dot the area. Belarussian officials sent two Mi-24 helicopter gunships into the air to investigate. One of the choppers found the balloon, approached within 110 yards and attempted, without success, to establish radio contact. (Race organizers suspect that the pilots were unable to respond because their batteries had gone dead during the three-day flight...
...Stuart Cary Welch, Curator of Islamic and LaterIndian Art, Emeritus, described Coolidge as"completely dedicated to the arts at Harvard andthe Boston Museum of Fine Arts, perhaps atconsiderable cost to his work as a scholar. He wasalways extremely helpful and encouraging to me. Hewas a man of great breadth in his appreciation ofart, overseeing the growth of the Fogg'scollection in many areas...
...Francisco judge ruled that that the University of California San Francisco may release the documents, which reportedly showthat cigarette companies knew for decades that a link existed between smoking and cancer. Brown & Williamson tobacco company had claimed the papers were stolen and demanded their return. But Superior Court Judge Stuart Pollack wondered why the firm was so anxious: many of the documents, he noted, had already surfaced in congressional hearings and suits against tobacco companies by four states seeking to recover costs of health care arising from smoking...