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...same catastrophe, especially when the air conditioning is overworked; and that, in Hall's opinion, the industry has been remiss in checking those planes for danger and researching ways to fix the tanks. According to papers released by the Federal Aviation Administration, the fuel tanks of 26 planes--13 civilian and 13 military--have blown up since 1959. By week's end frequent flyer and Senate majority leader Trent Lott pronounced himself "very nervous" and promised hearings on the topic...
...Fidel A U.S. judge rules that Cuba owes $200 million for the 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes. That's a lot easier that collecting...
This was not untrod territory for Gallagher, who comes as close as anyone to being the hero of the piece. "Over time," he says, "I've heard more than a few civilian complaints against cops. Most are grossly embellished, and some are just outright lies." But Colbert's detailed reconstruction impressed Gallagher. "I had watched a psychiatrist say on a TV program that if you put disturbed people in a pink-colored room, it calms them down," he says, "and I'd just had the detention room painted pink. There was no way Colbert could have known that unless...
...town of Titipu after hearing that Ko-Ko has been sentenced to death for violating one of the Mikado's laws. Unfortunately, as the town officials genially explain to him, Ko-Ko isn't dead--on the contrary, he's been promoted to Lord High Executioner, the highest civilian position available. And he's set to marry Yum-Yum that very afternoon...
Even before the U.S. went to war in the gulf, the CIA was eyeing the bioweapons threat apprehensively. In a now declassified study sent to the White House in September 1990, the agency warned that Iraq could use "special forces, civilian-government agents or foreign terrorists to hand-deliver biological or chemical agents clandestinely." Saddam would hardly produce such weapons if he never intended to use them. And when might he unleash them? The CIA thought it would be when he felt his survival was in danger. "He would want to take as many of his enemies with...