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...April 10, the Boston Red Sox will open their 86th season at Fenway Park, which, along with Detroit's Tiger Stadium, is the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball. In 1999, Fenway will host its third All-Star Game, its first since 1961. But if Red Sox ownership has its way, by 2010 the Red Sox will be playing in a brand new stadium, probably in South Boston, while venerable Fenway will go the way of Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds...
...against them in a process tallied on the Internet, with the amendment sometimes winning or losing by just a single vote. What was at stake was not mere chastity but the ordination of a people once shunned by the church. By last week, however, the amendment won its 86th presbytery--a simple majority--and sexually active gays and lesbians were forbidden to serve as clergy, elders and deacons...
...report was flown to the U.S. last Friday for weekend reading at the Pentagon, Heflebower, who heads the 17th Air Force in Europe, relieved of their commands the three top officers who had jurisdiction over the fatal April 3 flight. They are Brigadier General William Stevens, chief of the 86th Airlift Wing in Ramstein, Germany, and his two top subordinates, Colonels Roger Hansen and John Mazurowski. "There will be other officers disciplined, both higher and lower," vows a general. Senior Air Force officials say some officers may even face criminal charges for dereliction of duty...
...place. Air Force regulations permit military planes carrying VIPs into East European airports like Dubrovnik's to land only by daylight and in clear weather. The Air Force's European Command had applied for a waiver of these regulations. Safety officers at the Pentagon denied the request, but the 86th Airlift Wing apparently disregarded the denial. On high-profile vip flights, comments an Air Force officer, "the pressure to accomplish the mission on time is unspoken but great." Last week's firings should set up a much needed counterpressure...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Air Force announced Thursday it has relieved three commanders in Europe following an investigation into the disastrous crash of the military aircraft carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 others. The three commanders are the top officers of the Air Force 86th Airlift Wing, based at Rumstein Air Base in Germany. Brigadier General William Stevens, commander of the 86th, Colonel Roger W. Hansen, vice-commander, and Colonel John E. Mazurowski, operations group commander, were relieved of their duties on Wednesday. Following the investigation of the CT-43 crash, Major General Charles Heflebower, commander of the 17th...