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...reason? A chauffeured charter...
...Rabin may find it more difficult to deal with rejectionists on their own side than to deal with each other. Arafat has to win approval from two-thirds of the Palestine National Council, a sort of P.L.O. parliament-in- exile, to repeal the provisions of the organization's charter that pledge destruction of Israel. He is likely to prevail, but only after some jockeying. Then there is a threat of violence from Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist organization that regards Arafat as a traitor for even talking to Israel. Hamas' current line is that it will not shed Palestinian blood (though...
...across-the-board failure of Superfund to achieve its charter is now the responsibility of Carol Browner, President Clinton's new EPA administrator. With 22% of the EPA budget, Superfund is her biggest single program, and 1 in 4 Americans now lives within four miles of a Superfund site. Browner says her agency's Superfund specialists are working around the clock to prepare a "reauthorization proposal" for Congress in November that will suggest ways to make the system work. She says one of her first priorities is to reduce the percentage of the monies flowing into lawyers' pockets in litigation...
...Morris Air, a low- budget, no-frills outfit started by former Salt Lake City, Utah, travel agent June Morris, the first female founder of an airline. Other newcomers include Kiwi International, a regional discounter that flies six cozy 727s out of Newark, New Jersey; Private Jet, an Atlanta-based charter service with a fleet of 12 big MD-80s; and Family Airlines of Las Vegas, a start-up backed by 65 former Pan Am pilots. An additional 26 applications from wannabe airlines are pending at the Department of Transportation, and about 14 of these could get off the ground this...
...described the plot against Bush and the efforts to confirm it. Then he announced that he had sent cruise missiles into Baghdad three hours before. He at one point felt it necessary to give a legalistic nod to the action, and so invoked Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which deals with self-defense. But for his real message he reached back to an older and less subtle principle: "From the first days of our Revolution," he said, "American security has depended on the clarity of this message: Don't tread...