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...airlines' shedding up to 267 takeoff and landing slots a week in London, and reducing the frequency of flights from London to Chicago, Dallas and Miami if their competitors demand it. And with Virgin's Richard Branson charging that the EU wasn't harsh enough, the pressure on British-American isn't likely to let up. "There's no certainty that this deal will finally be consummated," says TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The extent of the sacrifice demanded by the EU regulators makes the venture a lot less lucrative for the two airlines than it once seemed...
...joint British-American study, more than 1,000 people have subjected themselves to a common cold virus in the most comprehensive such investigation ever undertaken. The objective: to see how accurately researchers can predict who will get sick based on a psychological profile and measurements of immune function before infection. "Assuming that stress puts people at higher risk," asks Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, "will people who have social support in confronting stresses be protected ((from contracting disease))?" The results are being analyzed...
...million movie epic called Muhammad, Messenger of God at theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. Though the tone of the movie was reverential, the producers had met endless difficulties in making it, including expulsion of the film crew from Morocco. In 1980 Saudi Arabia vehemently protested a British-American TV "drama documentary" called Death of a Princess, which told the story of the 1977 executions of a young married Saudi princess and her lover. Some Muslims have even objected to Children of Gebelawi, a 30-year-old allegorical novel based on the development of the world's great...
...Wednesday evening, Thatcher was host at a dinner at the British embassy in honor of the 200th anniversary of British-American diplomatic relations. The menu underscored the conviviality of the visit: poached salmon "Nancy," followed by filet of veal "special relationship" and raspberry mousse "Margaret." In his toast, the President mentioned the close friendships of Churchill and Roosevelt, of Harold Macmillan and John Kennedy, then said, "I'd like to add two more names to that list: Thatcher and Reagan." Thatcher broke up Reagan with several quips, including her lament that, despite sharing the same goals, she could not imitate...
Eastwood plays Mitchell Gant, a sometime hot pilot in Nam, still plagued by bad dreams and occasionally immobilized by horrific memories of the war. The British-American intelligence team that has picked up disturbing signals from the Soviet Union is less concerned with his mental state than his still keen airman's skills. They want him to sneak into Russia, filch the futuristic fighter plane that provides the film with its title as well as its best moments, and wing it out of there. Disguises, fake papers, sly street-corner meetings in Moscow, a chase on the subway, murder...