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...businesses is that companies in competing industrial countries have similar problems. In Western Europe, where air travel increased 8% in 1987 and is expected to jump more than 7% this year, terminals have become mob scenes. At Munich's airport one day this summer, congestion prompted officials to cancel 27 of Lufthansa's 59 domestic flights. A prime cause of the crunch is Europe's fractured air-control system, which is composed of 42 separate civilian control centers, plus additional military jurisdictions...
...Britain authorities decided to go ahead with this week's Farnborough air show despite calls for cancellation of the biennial display, one of the world's biggest. British officials said they were confident their safety rules would prevent an accident like the one at Ramstein. France too will proceed with scheduled shows because its rules, according to an air force statement, "are very rigorous." Spanish officials said they were "studying" whether to cancel a joint Spanish-American aerial display in Zaragoza next month, but it will probably...
...Dukakis is "a true liberal who, instead of controlling Government spending, raises taxes." Of course Reagan also raised taxes, and certainly didn't control Government spending. But he hypnotized the voters into thinking they could treat "liberalism" like one of those magazine-subscription deals where you can write "Please cancel" on the bill and keep the first few issues anyway...
Both the House and Senate versions would cancel a 50-cent price-support cut set for January 1 and the plan to actually increase the level was denounced by Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Lyng as well as an array of business and farm groups that often are allies of the dairy industry on such matters...
...Schwartzbergs' comments suggest, Israelis make special claims on travelers' loyalties. American Jews who cancel trips can find themselves the object of sharp criticism. "American Jews have a responsibility to disregard the reports and come here," says Harry Wall, director of the Anti-Defamation League office in Israel. "Anyone who stays away is succumbing to Arab pressure...