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...m.p.h., it could cross the Atlantic in less than three hours. But in 1971, after $1.2 billion had been spent, the U.S. gave in to swelling environmental and economic criticism and killed the project. The only full-scale prototype of the 288-ft.-long SST was sold to an aircraft museum in Kissimmee...
...military buildup and the expensive creation of a rapid- deployment Central Command to protect oil supplies from the gulf, Americans naturally wonder: Why not a military response? The answer is that Iraq is too strong. The country has 1 million battle-hardened men under arms, plus 500 combat aircraft and 5,500 tanks. The U.S. has no ground troops in the region; its presence is limited to six medium-size ships of the Joint Task Force * Middle East, based on the island of Bahrain. The aircraft carrier Independence is steaming toward a station off the Straits of Hormuz...
...shortfall and keep prices from soaring. That would be another red flag to Saddam. In short, if an embargo is to work, the U.S. must provide credible guarantees of military protection to Saudi Arabia. Already there were proposals in Washington for dispatching a wing of U.S. fighter aircraft to Saudi bases and even perhaps a brigade (8,000) of U.S. troops...
Getting people to fly Eastern became an even more daunting task last week when a federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted the company and nine of its managers for a conspiracy that involved falsifying repair records and failing to maintain its aircraft. The 60 counts are the first criminal charges for poor maintenance ever leveled against an airline. They cover a period from 1985 to October 1989, six months before Shugrue took command from union-buster Frank Lorenzo, head of Eastern's parent, Continental Airlines Holdings. The indictment is a major blow to the trustee's struggle to revitalize...
...announcing the charges, U.S. Attorney Andrew Maloney contended that upper management forced underlings "to keep the aircraft in flight at all costs" at three major airports: John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia in New York City and Hartsfield International in Atlanta. Many charges involve an illegal practice known as pencil whipping, or signing off on work that has not been performed. Mechanics allegedly failed to perform maintenance on cockpit gauges, landing gear, radar and fuel systems. While no accidents resulted from the neglected work, "thousands of innocent passengers may have been put at risk every day," Attorney General Dick Thornburgh...