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...encouraging. "He remembers nothing about the accident," reports TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. "He does remember the final moments before leaving the Ritz and remembers getting into the car. He also told the judge that Henri Paul seemed to be in a perfectly normal state before taking the wheel. But when asked for details about the moments leading up to the accident itself, he repeatedly answered, through a court interpreter: 'I don't remember, I don't know...
...half of wine. Friends say Dodi would never have permitted reckless driving. The Fayeds are aggressively refuting the idea that Paul, the hotel's deputy chief of security, was too drunk to drive. If true, it would leave them with some responsibility for allowing him to take the wheel. At a London press conference last week, an al Fayed spokesman introduced a professor of forensic medicine from the University of Glasgow, Peter Vanezis, to raise the O.J. question: Could the blood samples used by police have been contaminated? Though he offered no evidence that any contamination had taken place...
HOLD THE FRIES Steering-wheel dining is as American as, well, apple pie a la road. One out of 10 restaurant meals and 1 out of 5 fast-food meals are now eaten in a car. The dashboard favorite: a hamburger for lunch...
...scattergun of public outrage was let loose on the paparazzi first. But soon it wheeled on drunk-drivers, the British press and the Al-Fayeds before settling, finally and inexplicably, on the Royal Family ? as if the Queen herself had been at the wheel of that Mercedes. When Earl Spencer stood up at his sister's funeral and fired a volley of veiled threats at her former in-laws, the search for scapegoats was complete. So now the world has turned upside-down, perhaps we ought to listen to China's considered opinion on the whole Diana business: "this...
...Alma, investigators say, it struck the concrete divider that separates the eastbound lanes from the westbound and apparently cartwheeled, overturning, then spinning nearly 180 degrees. Fayed and Paul were killed instantly; the car's horn wailed under the weight of the chauffeur's body slumped against the steering wheel. A doctor was among the first at the scene and attempted to aid Diana, who was conscious though gravely injured, in the back seat. She died four hours later at the hospital...