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Doug Parker, 42, became CEO of Arizona-based America West Airlines, the nation's eighth largest carrier, on Sept. 1, 2001, and has turned around what critics used to call "America Worst." He spoke to TIME's SALLY B. DONNELLY on the state of the airline industry...
PROPOSITION 200, an Arizona ballot initiative aimed at illegal immigrants, would seem to have little going for it. Virtually the entire political, business and religious establishment of the state--including Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano, Republican Senator John McCain and the state's three Catholic bishops--is lined up against it. The Arizona Chamber of Commerce is also campaigning for its defeat. But such is the backlash against the flood of undocumented Mexicans pouring over the border that the "Protect Arizona Now" initiative seems almost a sure bet to pass...
...fine, for state and local officials to fail to report any suspected aliens seeking welfare, medical care or other public benefits. Proponents, backed by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington-based lobby, launched a TV ad campaign this week, claiming that illegal immigrants cost Arizona taxpayers $1.3 billion a year. Prop 200, the ad says, "sends a message that Arizona is sick and tired of illegal immigration...
Opponents argue that the measure will do nothing to stop illegal immigration, that there has never been a problem with alien-voter fraud and that checking for illegals applying for benefits is too cumbersome and costly. Still, a recent poll showed that Arizona voters favor the measure 63% to 23%. Prop 200, says Democratic state chairman Jim Peterson, is "an assault on basic human rights that plays to the fears of Arizonans...
...have been, invariably, wrong. I do not want as President an amiable fellow who does not accept that politics is about compromise. I would rather have an effective President whom I despise as a person than a wrongheaded one who is a good fishing buddy. David P. Vernon Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Bush was thrust into the horror of 9/11, a situation that any President, Republican or Democrat, would have struggled with. It's very easy three years later to criticize the way Bush handled foreign affairs, but at the time we were a nation that was shocked and scared. Bush...