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...they should join the strike. They decided later not to count the votes because the flight attendants were so successful at interrupting American's flight operations. American chairman Robert Crandall, however, made no friends among his pilots after telling industry analysts, "If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port." The turbulence is almost certain to get worse. United Airlines machinists are angry that an employee bid to buy the airline two weeks ago crashed and burned. Delta's pilots are in a tailspin, with many refusing to accept the 5% pay cut that management has proposed...
More immediately, they and director Chris Columbus had to contend with their star's newfound desire (see last year's Toys) to play the holy fool. Williams' head contains a multitude of characters -- some of them real, some of them American archetypes -- and as a vocal quick-change artist, Williams has a unique gift not only for dead-on impersonations of these characters, but also for setting them all free on a babbling stream of consciousness. These manic monologues are impolite and utterly incorrect politically. They articulate our secret, subversive thoughts. His impersonation of Mrs. Doubtfire shows that...
...CROIX, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. Five centuries after the event, the U.S. National Park Service has dedicated a park at the only documented site now part of the U.S. where Christopher Columbus' crew landed on the explorer's second voyage to the New World; the date was Nov. 14, 1493. A 370-hectare enclave on this island's north shore, the Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve has the largest remaining mangrove forest in the Virgin Islands. The park harbors a wide variety of endangered flora and fauna, including giant swamp ferns and bottle-nosed dolphins, and includes...
...Veterans Affairs Department has since downplayed Jackson's diagnosis. But Kay, a 52-year-old fireman from Columbus, Georgia, who served on reserve duty, is not getting well. In fact, he is more convinced than ever that he must have been exposed to disease-causing chemical agents while serving in the gulf. Several veterans and their families testified before a congressional committee last week that the Defense Department has either ignored their complaints or dismissed the troops who make them as malingerers...
...imposing rules, and to forbid the U.S. government to issue standards without supplying the money it takes to meet them -- a position the National Governors' Association has seconded. A 1991 study showed that the cost of meeting environmental mandates will eat up more than 23% of the budget of Columbus, Ohio, by the year 2000 -- and that assumes no new regulations between now and then. In many cities, the costs of environmental laws will soon exceed those of police and fire protection...