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- <title>
- Oct. 07, 1991: Putting It Together, Bit by Bit
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- Putting It Together, Bit by Bit
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- <p>By Sidney Urquhart/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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- <p> One tiny fragment sifted from the tons of debris that
- rained down over Lockerbie, Scotland, may at last reveal who
- blew up PAN AM 103. While both Syrian and Palestinian terrorists
- have been suspected of planting the bomb, the focus has shifted
- to the Libyan intelligence service. Scottish police, baffled by a
- fingernail-size bit of electronic circuitry from the wreckage,
- shipped it off to Washington. When FBI lab analysts compared the
- shard with the printed-circuit boards of two unexploded bombs
- taken from Libyan agents in Africa, it was a match. FBI agents
- and Scottish investigators tracked the timers to a Swiss
- electronics firm, which acknowledged selling two dozen to the
- Libyan government. A grand jury in Washington is expected to
- indict several Libyan intelligence agents in November.
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- </body></article>
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