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...training is generally a fine technique, but hardly when the job involves piloting an aircraft loaded with passengers. The Federal Aviation Administration last week said it would investigate the training procedures at Continental Airlines after one of the carrier's pilots admitted that on several flights he had made deliberate mistakes prior to takeoff -- like setting the plane's wing flaps in the wrong position and misstating the aircraft's weight -- in order to test the skills and alertness of his copilot...
...many unknowns. Research is making it abundantly clear that people differ, often inexplicably, in their vulnerability to the virus and in their tendency to transmit it to others by various routes. An AIDS carrier's infectivity -- his or her ability to pass the virus on -- may vary over time. Only now are researchers beginning to understand these differences and their implications for preventing the spread of the disease...
...swivel chair in the front cabin with former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. Lehman, champion of the 600-ship Navy, is Bush's heavyweight sidekick for the day (yesterday it was Barry Goldwater). When Lehman mentions that Michael Dukakis advocates saving $18 billion by eliminating two carrier task forces, Teeley, who has been sitting in on the conversation, immediately sees it as the perfect item to highlight Bush's speech at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Teeley urges Bush to add a new note card for his speech. Bush agrees and Teeley drafts four new sentences, based...
...Ardi Perry, a travel agent at Aquarius Travel Service in West Palm Beach, Fla.: "We have people who will change in Atlanta and accept a layover when they used to fuss. It's just to build up mileage." Passengers go out of their way to stay on the same carrier whenever possible. That is the main benefit that frequent-flyer clubs offer to the airlines. Says John Pincavage, an airline analyst at the Paine Webber investment firm: "The | frequent-flyer plan is the only marketing program that has ensured brand loyalty...
...hardly news in Washington that the drug thugs can undermine the integrity of vital institutions. The Bahamas, known among drug runners as "our aircraft carrier," serve as a transshipment point. Senate hearings last May and again last week pointed accusingly at the government of Prime Minister Lynden Pindling. Similar charges are now surfacing in the Jacksonville trial of Cocaine Kingpin Lehder, who in the late 1970s acquired parts of Norman's Cay, using its 3,000-ft. runway as a refueling point for drug loads. Former Lehder associates have testified that Pindling and other officials were paid hundreds of thousands...