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...destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. Thurman matched a fragment of a circuit board from the bomb's timer to an identical circuit board, which was part of a timer the CIA had recovered from an intact, unexploded bomb seized in Togo in 1986. Thurman's amazing command of detail led to a Zurich electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime. The U.S. was then able to charge that Libyan intelligence agents had tagged a brown "bomb bag" containing the radio with stolen Air Malta tags and placed...
...OLYMPIAN TO GO--FROM TOGO...
...Dagbovi John Senakwami didn't know how to swim, but today he's tantalizingly close to becoming an Olympian. He has no endorsements and no chance at a medal, but he does have a dream: to be the first swimmer to represent his homeland, the African nation of Togo, in the Olympics. It could be a made-for-TV fable if it weren't for politics...
...politics. Last month Togo's Sports Minister told Senakwami that he would make the team. But then Senakwami heard that Togo's Olympic Committee said he had to meet a qualifying time lower than his present pace. Senakwami says fina, swimming's governing body, sometimes waives the rule to help promote the sport--and will do so. "It's an excuse," he says. "Somebody in Togo doesn't want me to go." If so, Togo will be losing not just an Olympian but also a parable of persistence. Says Senakwami: "I refuse to give up." --By Lawrence Mondi...
ASYLUM GRANTED. To FAUZIYA KASINGA, 19, the woman who fled Togo to avoid a genital-mutilation rite; in Washington. The Immigration Appeals Board ruled that "this level of harm can constitute persecution...