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...banned all emergency relief flights bound for the Christian and animist south. Khartoum justified the blockade of food and medical supplies by claiming that aerial bombardments of two rebel-held towns in the south made it too dangerous for relief workers to operate. When the rebels, who have no aircraft, charged that the bombings were in fact the work of the government, an official % spokesman vaguely promised an "investigation." The blockade has also made it difficult for the U.N.-sponsored Operation Lifeline Sudan to supply farmers with seeds and tools for planting, just when plentiful rains hold the promise...
...West: Wild. From the supercharged Pacific Northwest to struggling Arizona, no region claims a wider range of strengths and weaknesses. Paced by high-flying Boeing, which is working off a four-year backlog of aircraft orders, Seattle is attracting newcomers from across the country. The median price of a Seattle home rose 23% in the third quarter to $110,000, marking the largest increase in the U.S. By contrast, Phoenix is mired in a real estate depression in the wake of a heedless building spree. Lenders foreclosed on more than 15,000 residential mortgages last year, up nearly 20% from...
Although military police like Bray are considered support troops, their duties can be hazardous. Women are among Marines guarding U.S. embassies abroad, and the Air Force employs female test pilots. Yet promotion often hinges on command experience in aircraft, fighting ships or tanks -- and women's careers are circumscribed without...
...sustaining maintenance machinery that the Secret Service and White House staff wanted. Everybody from the stewards to the pilots was consulted, even the reporters who cover the President. They asked for the moon and got it. Boeing and Congress never blinked. The planes will be the most expensive transport aircraft ever produced...
...time of diminishing Pentagon budgets, both the B-2 Stealth bomber and the proposed Advance Tactical Fighter, which will also incorporate Stealth technology, are catching heavy flak in Congress. The Air Force unleashed its F-117As not to scare Manuel Noriega but to build a case that high-tech aircraft have a role even in a low-tech...