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...timing of President Clinton's Moscow summit was lousy, the reverse is true of his trip to Northern Ireland. Since the shaky summer of Drumcree and the shock and sorrow of the Omagh bombing, the province appears to be very much back on the track to peace. All but one of the renegade guerrilla groups have declared a cease-fire; Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has begun to renounce violence with all the passion of a would-be Nobel laureate; and just before Clinton touched down Thursday, news came through that Unionist leader and first minister David Trimble had agreed...
...news sent shock waves through the aviation industry. Both Swissair and the MD-11 have impeccable reputations; indeed, Swissair maintenance workers are in great demand and often help out at other airlines. They have not had a single crash in nearly 20 years. The downed plane was seven years old, a mere babe in industry terms. "This was a descendant of the DC-10," says TIME aviation expert Jerry Hannifin, "and a hell of a reliable stable airplane." Nevertheless, there was one incident last year at Newark Airport in which a Federal Express-owned MD-11 crashed on landing. That...
...concludes that the car "tended systematically to veer to the right." That would help explain why Paul was unable to avoid hitting the Fiat Uno in the right lane as he tried to steer around it. The inherent instability of the vehicle, says Pietri, could be due to faulty shock absorbers or, more likely, to a misalignment of the wheels...
...ignoble moments. Nor is it surprising that what Frank wrote about such moments did not make the final version of her much loved and much published diary. The discovery of five previously unknown pages of Anne's writings, which are reportedly "very critical" of her parents' relationship, nevertheless sent shock waves through the publishing world. The pages are being held by a former employee of the Anne Frank Foundation, who says OTTO FRANK, the only member of the family to survive the death camps, gave them to him for safekeeping. Once retrieved, the pages will be included in the next...
...police, converted the beloved estate into an equally well-regarded bordello. "Oh, the former owner would be terribly upset if she knew this was going on in that place," Smith said, strolling past the manicured, sloping lawns along Old Glen Road. "I'm sure she would have died of shock...