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...necessary to ensure the national defense. Troop levels could be trimmed, especially if the U.S. insists that its allies share more of the burden of defending the free world. Defense specialists in Congress and the Administration can choose from among several possible cuts: reduce the size of the aircraft-carrier fleet from 15 to twelve and cancel two planned carriers before construction begins (a saving of $3.5 billion in 1992); cancel the Stealth bomber ($7 billion); kill the C- 17 transport plane ($2.3 billion); freeze annual spending on the Strategic Defense Initiative at 1988 levels ($9 billion); trim...
...smoke. So believes a group of Dallas businessmen that aims to start an airline exclusively for puffers. The Great American Smoker's Club plans to take off April 22, the day when a new Government ban on smoking during any flight shorter than two hours takes effect. The carrier intends to circumvent the rule by organizing as a private charter service and charging $10 for membership (family rate: $20). Entrepreneur Kay Cohlmia, 53, and Colleagues Glenn Herndon, 47, and Daniel Cuozzo, 43, smokers all, plan 14 round-trip commuter flights a day between Houston and Dallas. Other Southwest cities...
...coup for airline passengers! That was the initial reaction in mid-October when the Department of Transportation issued its first monthly ranking of airline performance. At last, here was a way to select a carrier based on a report card for punctuality, baggage handling and overbooking. Alas, the rankings are turning out in many cases to be misleading and unfair. A primary reason, say critics, was that the Government was too vague in telling airlines how to tabulate their data, so that the carriers used widely differing criteria in deciding what to report...
Acting on a tip, the Philippine military sent 100 troops, a tank and an armored personnel carrier to mount a daybreak raid on a small house in Santa Rita, a village north of Manila. The target was Juanito Rivera, 54, allegedly the second ranking leader of the New People's Army. Rivera, fighting pneumonia, had been visiting his mother. Peering out the window, he surveyed the firepower and surrendered...
...wondering why a seatbelt was in a video game when the plane rose from the aircraft carrier, taking me with it. Or so it felt...