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...charges against al-Megrahi and Fhimah don't explain how the bronze-colored Samsonite suitcase, dispatched via Air Malta, eluded Frankfurt's elaborate airport security system. Instead, the indictment zeroes in on two tiny pieces of forensic evidence -- a fingernail-size fragment of green plastic from a Swiss digital timer, and a charred piece of shirt...
...trademark slow start in the 500. Then on the backstretch as she accelerated, Ye claims she was obstructed on the lane changeover by the Soviet skater against whom she was paired. Ye nonetheless finished strongly, and her clocking of 40.51 was flashing in first place on the electronic timer when Blair set the toe of her left blade into the ice 10 minutes later...
...slices of the black experience -- and at the same time are more sensitive than ever about how that experience is portrayed. Nervous editors often urge artists to do stories that avoid prickly issues. "They really don't want a black strip. They want a Peanuts in Coppertone," gripes old- timer Turner, who says he has softened the attitudes of some of his Wee Pals characters to appease the powers that...
...been captured unexploded from Libyan- supported terrorists in the African nation of Togo. The bit of plastic from Lockerbie perfectly matched part of the timing device from the Togo explosive. The letters MEBO had been imprinted and scratched out on the Togo bomb but were still decipherable. So the timer evidently had been made by Meister et Bollier, a Zurich firm also known as MEBO AG. Company executives disclosed that the timing device was one of 20 delivered to a Libyan official...
...bombs: a gold- plated nickel wire like the one that had been removed from the body of the Japanese youth killed in the blast over Hawaii. Identical wires were found in the Rio, Geneva and Tunis devices, in each case attached to a commonly available E-cell electronic timer made by Plessey, USA, an electronics firm based in White Plains, N.Y. All three bombs used a distinctive, homemade version of the easily procurable high explosive PETN. All were powered by AAA- size batteries from the same manufacturer and the same lot. Clinching the case, the Hawaii bomber had left...