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...example, the old Anglican Church?across from the White Swan Hotel?languished as a warehouse for years after the Cultural Revolution; it has since reopened and resumed religious services. Walk east along Shamian Nan Jie about 200 m, past the old Butterfield & Swire offices?the Jardine Matheson godowns were up the street to your left?and you're at the former British consulate, built in 1865. Retirees often practice Cantonese opera in the park across the street...
...DIED. PETER SUTCH, 56, former chairman of Hong Kong's Swire Group, one of the territory's older trading houses, of cancer; in Rome. Sutch eschewed the stuffy, colonial taipan mold in favor of a more modern and pragmatic management style...
...made the link to state-sponsored terrorism," said Aphrodite Tsairis, whose 20-year-old daughter Alexia was killed on Flight 103. Many families had stopped daring to hope for a conviction, and it came as the culmination of a draining struggle against complacency and despair. When Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was on the Pan Am flight, heard the verdict, he fainted in the court gallery. But the ruling also underlined another challenge: to start from this now legally established link and go up the chain to the real instigators. President George W. Bush said "the United States government will...
...dramatic end of the proceedings in the Netherlands opens a new chapter in the Lockerbie saga, one that seems likely to highlight divisions among the family members. In London late last week, Swire and other British relatives not only renewed calls for a full public inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing, but also raised nagging doubts about the case. "Why did Pan Am 103 crash on Lockerbie, not into the Atlantic Ocean?" Swire asked. With that he pointed to a fundamentally different hypothesis for the bombing, based on two events earlier in 1988. On July 3 the U.S. cruiser Vincennes shot...
...Swire wonders whether one of those cruder timers, which he says can't be set for longer than 45 minutes, was used to bring down Pan Am 103. The more sophisticated timer the prosecutors linked to al-Megrahi and the Libyans, he says, could easily have been set to blow the plane up over the ocean, foiling efforts to trace the perpetrators. Swire says the "provenance was unusual" of the timer remnants found outside Lockerbie, thus raising again suggestions that they had been planted on the scene. He and some other families want to see politicians in power...