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...turned out that the investigation was touched off, in part, by a memo from Darnell Martens, president of an airline consulting firm, TRM, in which presidential friend and Inaugural chairman Harry Thomason has a 25% share. During the campaign, TRM received a fee for administrative work associated with carrier contracts and for locating suitable ground facilities. Thomason, who has a temporary office in the White House while he closes Inaugural accounts and advises the President on reorganization, passed Martens' memo on to the White House; the memo said that nine charter airlines had complained to him that all the White...
...Dearborn, Michigan, Larry Jasion, upset at losing a promotion to a woman, killed one co-worker and wounded two others before killing himself. Later that day in Dana Point, California, Mark Richard Hilbun returned to the post office from which he had been fired and killed a letter carrier and wounded a clerk. He was arrested at a bar, about 20 miles north, early Saturday morning. Police said Hilbun is suspected of killing his mother, whose body was found at her home the day of the post office murder, and of shooting four other people before he was apprehended...
...balmy Adriatic evening, U.S. Navy attack planes leap from the deck of their carrier on tails of flame. As they climb through the gathering darkness, signals from the radar domes and computers of Air Force AWACS planes direct the jets to targets nestled in the forests and pastures of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ahead of them, electronic-warfare jets swoop down to jam any Serbian antiaircraft radar that might still be working...
...TALK ABOUT AN AIRLINE SHAKE-OUT IN Europe's overcrowded, unprofitable skies was, until last week, just talk. Then came the announcement that four airlines would merge, creating Europe's largest international carrier. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Swissair, Austrian Airlines and the trinational Scandinavian Airlines System said they would go far beyond earlier plans to combine certain activities and would create a single company with a new (yet unchosen) name and logo. Ownership would be split 30-30-30 among KLM, SAS and Swissair, with Austrian holding the remaining 10%. Starting with about 270 planes and more than 30 million...
...planning a new airline called SMOKERS EXPRESS that will allow passengers to smoke on all its flights. In fact, Smokers Express even intends to provide free cigarettes. The founders of the airline hope to get around the Federal Aviation Administration's in-flight smoking ban by making their carrier a travel club...