Syd Barrett, Embassy design, Diana, Padma Lakshmi, Huma Abedin, Chernobyl

Syd Barrett, Embassy design, Diana, Padma Lakshmi, Huma Abedin, Chernobyl


Syd Barrett


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c/o Vanity Fair, a great online mag
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vanityfair
Embassy design

March 30, 1965, when a Vietcong car bomb destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 people and injuring 186..ars the same embassy had been violating Vietnam?
.April 1983 ..a van loaded with explosives detonated under the embassy portico, collapsing the front half of the building and killing 63 people. Seventeen of the dead were Americans, of whom eight worked for the C.I.A. The embassy was moved to a more secure location, where nonetheless another truck bomb was exploded, in September 1984, with the loss of 22 lives
...The first Inman compound was completed in Mogadishu in 1989, only to be evacuated by helicopter in 1991 as angry gunmen came over the walls and slaughtered the abandoned Somali staff and their families.
August 7, 1998, however, al-Qaeda drivers bombed the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, killing 301 people and wounding about 5,000 more

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Diana

Diana, Diana, Diana, Diana, Dianar, by Patrick Demarchelier
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Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is divorcing Salman Rushdie

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This appears to be a new type, the Islamic superwoman
eg Hilary's girlfriday/friend Huma Abedin

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nytimes
Chernobyl First Chapter, ‘Arsenals of Folly’, , By Richard Rhodes November 25, 2007

It fell out by size. Big blocks of hot graphite landed on the roofs of Number Four's turbine hall and Reactor Number Three. To lower construction costs, the roofs had been covered with flammable asphalt; the hot graphite set them on fire. Blocks and smaller pieces of graphite landed on the grounds around the building and splashed hissing into the four-mile-long cooling pond that lay between the plant and the Pripyat River. The cooling pond was fed by and drained into the river, which drained in turn into the big reservoir downstream that stored the water supply of the city of Kiev, the Soviet Union's third-largest city, with a population of some 2.5 million people.

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Syd Barrett, Embassy design, Diana, Padma Lakshmi, Huma Abedin, Chernobyl