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...quite a spectacle: eager Governors, U.S. Senators and state economic directors in their best blue suits traipsing out to the headquarters of United Air Lines in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Ever since word got around that United plans to build a new $1 billion aircraft-maintenance center somewhere in the U.S., some 90 cities, states and other public entities have been strutting their stuff in hopes of winning the facility. Dozens of schoolchildren from Oklahoma City have written to chief executive Stephen Wolf, beseeching him to provide jobs for their parents. Suitors have sent flowers to UAL executives and bombarded...
President Bush's new travel policy, announced last week by White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, bars chief of staff John Sununu from taking personal trips on government aircraft except for "immediate and compelling need." Even though he outranks Gray, Sununu must get specific, advance clearance from him for official flights...
What are Saddam Hussein's chances of retrieving the Iraqi air force jets that fled to Iran during the gulf war? About zero, estimates a senior Administration official. At first, he says, Pentagon analysts couldn't understand why the Iranians claimed that only 22 Iraqi fighter planes and transport aircraft had flown across the border "when we all knew they had 140." They know now. "Tehran has been very busy painting over" Iraqi markings, says the official. "Those planes are the new Iranian air force...
Though junketing on government aircraft is a common practice among high Washington officials, including many members of Congress, it does not sit well with the public at a time of recession, rising taxes and budgetary belt tightening. Eyebrows were raised last week, for example, when CBS News reported that Vice President Dan Quayle and Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner had taken an Air Force executive jet to Georgia for a golf weekend that cost taxpayers an estimated...
...flights on Air Force executive jets -- including trips to ski resorts and his New Hampshire home -- that have cost taxpayers more than $500,000 during the past two years. And while the President conceded that the White House rules requiring the chief of staff to fly only in military aircraft may need adjustment, he insisted that Sununu "complied with the existing policy...