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...March 19 the capacitors were flown from Los Angeles to London aboard a TWA aircraft and stored in a warehouse. (By some accounts, British officials substituted fake devices for the actual capacitors.) Nine days later, as the large wooden crate containing the cargo was about to be loaded onto an Iraqi Airways flight bound for Baghdad, U.S. and British customs officials seized the goods...
...French DC-10 over the Sahara last September, killing 170 people. While visiting London last week, President Vaclav Havel acknowledged that his Communist predecessors sold Libya alone 1,000 tons of the stuff. Said Havel: "If you consider that it takes 200 g ((6 oz.)) to blow up an aircraft, this means world terrorism has enough Semtex to last for 150 years...
Both satellites were developed by state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries and were designed to be hurled into space by Israel's powerful rocket, the Shavit (Comet). I.A.I. is also working on a civilian communications satellite, called the Amos, which it hopes to send into orbit within two years...
Such alliances could help Daimler-Benz spruce up its consumer-electronics group and afford entry to Japan's domestic markets. Mitsubishi would position itself for 1992's united European market and, with access to Daimler aircraft technology, might enter the commercial aircraft field -- a dream come true for the Japanese but a nightmare for Boeing...
...officer who untied himself and radioed, "Mutiny aboard: We are off to the high seas." The apparent destination was Sweden, although another press report last week suggested that Sablin was actually heading for Leningrad to demand reforms of the Soviet system over nationwide TV. The ship was halted by aircraft fire near Sweden, and the conspirators were put on trial. Sablin was sentenced to death by firing squad...