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...Fair Trading (OFT) and the U.S. Department of Justice fined BA more than $500 million in August for price fixing. Ten current and former BA executives face the possibility of criminal prosecution in the U.S. All this comes just as access to the transatlantic market out of Heathrow Airport--now restricted to BA and a few other carriers--is about to be blown wide open...
SALLY WESTBY, a Minneapolis resident, who along with her husband, on their way to Guatemala, made a visit to Idaho Senator Larry Craig's infamous airport bathroom stall...
...rallies were significantly better attended than those that materialized for Nawaz Sharif, another former Prime Minister, whose attempted homecoming five days earlier had been aborted at the airport by Musharraf's government. But Sharif's welcoming committee had been heavily repressed by a massive presence of police - one that was, tellingly, nowhere to be seen for Bhutto's celebratory announcement. Nevertheless, the media outnumbered party faithful in both events. There are many political uncertainties to come in the next few weeks - the announcement of presidential elections, Supreme Court rulings on Musharraf?s ability to run for another term while maintaining...
...Sharif's supporters were detained or thrown in jail on specious charges. Last night the secretary general of his party was taken in by security forces, despite having set up a safe house in anticipation of such an occurrence. And a convoy of party leaders setting out for the airport to greet Sharif was stopped less than two miles from its departure point by scores of police armed with riot shields and metal-tipped bamboo staves. Parliamentarian Tamina Dultana, vice president of Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party, jumped out of her Land Cruiser and charged the police, shouting...
...wasn't just party leaders who were detained. Khurshid Ahmed Khan, a flour mill owner dressed in a simple shalwar kameeze, had started out from Peshawar on Sunday with a party of some 800 supporters. By the time they reached the airport, the party was down to one. All the others had been stopped at barricades blocking the roads into the capital. The only reason he was able to get to the airport, he says, was that he had had the foresight to buy an outgoing air ticket that day and was, thus, technically a passenger. He called himself...