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...investigation continued Tuesday into the crash of American Airlines flight 587, which killed 246 passengers and nine crew members. Workers at the scene recovered the plane's flight data recorder, one of the two "black boxes" used to analyze the last moments aboard doomed flights. The cockpit voice recorder was pulled from the wreckage just hours after the crash...
...hate the idea, says Gritta. "Pilots hate it because it?s a pain and pushes their time back even further when they?re up against the wall already." Opponents also argue that such a move would do nothing to deter suicide bombers, who by definition are happy to climb aboard a plane right along with their bombs...
...chill of the cold war, the Soviet Union is said to have loaded enough germs and viruses, including smallpox, aboard intercontinental ballistic missiles targeted on the U.S. to infect an entire city, a tactic Saddam Hussein is thought to have tried to copy on a more modest scale with rocket-borne smallpox "bombs" that could hit targets up to 70 miles away. He never used them. Not that restraint has always been practiced. During World War II, Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas on Chinese and Soviet targets, while Britain plotted to kill German cattle with anthrax...
...chilled relations with Australia. Prime Minister John Howard said the United Nations should get tough with countries such as Malaysia that allow refugees to use them as a stepping-stone. That comment was sparked by an incident in August in which Australia refused entry to 460 refugees, mainly Afghans, aboard the cargo ship Tampa. Like the hundreds who drowned off Java, many of the refugees aboard the Tampa had passed through Malaysia on their way to Indonesia to board the ship. There has been talk in recent weeks in Kuala Lumpur of a variety of measures that might be taken...
...Ihab Khazaal, an Iraqi physician caught by Indonesian police a year ago aboard a leaky boat off Irian Jaya, has come to Jakarta to help the traumatized survivors. "I would never think of going aboard a boat again," says Ihab, who has been granted refugee status by the U.N. and is now waiting for an offer of asylum. In the grimy Jakarta hotel that houses last week's survivors, men still in torn, dirty clothes stand alone or in small groups, staring dazedly at the ground or weeping quietly. Speaking on the hotel's single phone, a woman is rocking...