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Final Arguments. The U.S. has long been considering whether or not to allow the Concorde to fly into its airports. Now at last, it is about to decide. At a special hearing held in Washington last week, Secretary of Transportation William Coleman Jr.* listened with judicial impartiality as French and British government officials, environmentalists and U.S. Senators, Representatives, Governors and mayors presented their final arguments for and against admitting the Concorde. At that hearing, Coleman promised to make a decision by early February. His choice will not be easy. A ruling in favor of the Concorde would bring down...
...limited SST flights into the U.S., the EPA last month declared that environmental considerations made flights into New York's J.F.K. "undesirable," and those into Washington's Dulles "increasingly questionable." At last week's hearing, Roger Strelow, EPA assistant administrator for air and waste management, told Coleman that "introduction of Concorde service runs directly counter to the noise abatement and other environmental policies and programs of the U.S." He was backed by New York Conservative Senator James Buckley. Said he: "I cannot understand how the interests of those people living in the flight paths of the Concorde...
...Coleman has authority to make the decision but could be overruled by President Ford...
Just a few hours after the La Guardia bombing, President Ford ordered federal action to make certain that such a tragedy does not happen again. Specifically, he assigned a task force, headed by Transportation Secretary William Coleman, to draw up recommendations for tightening airport security. Coleman hoped to have them on Ford's desk within two weeks. It would be no easy task, though, to determine whether any of the 1.1 million passengers who enter the nation's 425 main airports each day was carrying a bomb. "A bag is a bag," confessed one perplexed FBI official...
...husband of Bob's second wife Sandy, Norman collapsed with a heart attack, and Bob's current wife Jennifer was killed in a car crash. Later, Norman also died. Meanwhile, Superbitch Lisa, Bob's first wife and once the most hated woman on TV, has a fourth husband, Grant Coleman, and has mellowed. Bob's son Tom is married to the scheming Natalie, whom he defended in court. Bob's sister-in-law, pretty Kim, is married to nasty Dr. John Dixon, who has spent years trying to stop her from running off with handsome Dr. Dan Stewart. Last summer...