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...seemingly has no problem driving around in his Hummer while promoting energy conservation, but he does at least have some sense of conserving the people’s money. This year the legislature pushed for a bill to subsidize a fictitious railroad with only the potential rights to carry cargo along a certain short route, with the hope that the bill would coax trucking companies into transporting lumber for a reasonable rate. Presumably it took all of Arnold’s business sense to realize that this idea was not a winner...
...massacring innocent bystanders. Apparently, the tripods were buried by malevolent aliens centuries earlier, and have now been activated by the evil extraterrestials. Cruise’s character appears to possess no special powers that equip him to survive an alien attack, other than being able to unload shipyard cargo very fast and having the skills of an excellent auto mechanic. (There’s a V-8 engine sitting near his kitchen table.) I’m guessing his character was product placement...
...week that the aircraft had been used in a sophisticated 1984 sting operation designed to show that Sandinista officials were involved in the international drug trade. Hidden cameras installed in the plane by the CIA filmed a Nicaraguan Interior Ministry official loading sacks of cocaine into the cargo hold. Last March, President Reagan showed a still photo of the sting operation to a nationwide TV audience during speech advocating resumption of U.S. military aid to the contras...
...owned carrier, during the Viet Nam era. Since June, Hasenfus claimed, he had flown on ten missions, four from Aguacate, a contra base in Honduras, and six from Ilopango. He said he was paid $3,000 a month to work as a "kicker," the crewman who pushes cargo bales out of flying airplanes. Logbooks and other documents found in the wreckage of the C-123K showed that it had dropped some 130,000 lbs. of military supplies into Nicaragua...
Flying Tigers, an air-cargo carrier founded by World War II fighter pilots and ground crewmen in 1945, may be waging its last competitive battle. The world's largest cargo line (1985 revenues: $1.1 billion) may fold unless the labor unions that represent 2,790 of its 6,334 employees grant major wage and benefit concessions. Since 1983 the Los Angeles-based carrier has lost $95 million in price wars with competitors like Japan's Nippon Cargo Airlines...