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Federal officials have flatly ruled out sabotage as a cause for the hole in the fuselage. Flight 243 offers worrisome parallels to a 1981 crash of a Boeing 737 owned by Far Eastern Air Transport. All 110 people aboard that jet perished when the fuselage floor as well as roof peeled back at roughly the same altitude as that of Flight 243. Former top federal safety investigator C.O. ("Chuck") Miller, who studied the 1981 crash, points out that both vintage Boeing 737s were built in the late 1960s, endured tens of thousands of pressurization cycles, and operated in the highly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Plane Was Disintegrating | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...landing a commando unit on the Tunisian coast and carrying out the assassination were carefully divided between MOSSAD and the Israeli Defense Forces. By late March the operation was ready, but word that the time was right did not come from Tunis until early April. The Israeli navy provided transport across the Mediterranean in a large vessel, then carried the team of 20 commandos ashore in rubber dinghies some 20 miles north of Sidi Bou Said. The commandos loaded into a Peugeot 305 and two Volkswagen vans and were delivered by MOSSAD agents to al-Wazir's doorstep. Other agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Assignment: Murder | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...escort service will only transport a student from one Harvard building to another Harvard building. As many graduate students do not live in Harvard buildings, this service does not help them. In addition, the escort service has advised students not to as the escort service on a regular basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parking or Escorts | 4/26/1988 | See Source »

...Mexico for failing to be sufficiently vigilant in arresting the flow of drugs across its border into the U.S. If the House concurs, it would mark the first time Congress has invoked a 1986 law that denies foreign assistance to countries that have been lax in fighting the international transport of narcotics. But the action is more symbolic than real, as Reagan is likely to invoke an escape clause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding The Drug Issue | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...losers in both. In recent weeks rebels in the northern provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, where close to 3 million people are at risk of dying from starvation, have escalated their campaign against the government by ambushing food convoys, attacking grain-distribution centers, mining roads, firing on transport planes, and rocketing airfields. By last week the civil war had virtually halted the relief program in Tigre. Regional warehouses are mostly empty because roads are too dangerous for trucks to navigate or have been closed by the government. Says an official of the International Committee of the Red Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia Twin Plagues of War and Famine | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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