Word: culpa
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: A day after it grounded ValuJet, the Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged, with a veiled mea culpa, that it never moved quickly enough to regulate low-cost air carriers. As unflattering details have emerged about its oversight of ValuJet before the airline's DC-9 crash May 11, the FAA on Tuesday tried to calm the public and forestall further criticism by announcing a policy of tighter airline inspections and forcing its top regulatory officer to retire this month. Too little, too late? Probably. TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin reports that the May 11 crash...
...calls from the media. "We made a mistake," he says grimly. "We will try to make sure this never happens again." Looking back, he says, "I should have thrown bombs in the CWA's doorway." The initials themselves infuriate him. At least, he says, "we will say our mea culpa. We're not going to run behind confidentiality laws and not admit we've made a mistake...
Which is exactly what Bill Clinton is eager to provoke. Clinton welcomed the N.R.A.'s faux mea culpa last Friday, but only as fodder. It gave him the opportunity to suggest that the N.R.A. donate to the families of cops killed in the line of duty the nearly $1 million that its offensive letter has already raised. That kind of talk will be heard often as the 1996 presidential season matures. Bashing the N.R.A. helps distinguish Clinton from his Republican rivals...
...implication, McNamara's mea culpa further vindicates the thousands of students at Harvard and elsewhere who protested what they considered an immoral and losing effort. At the Institute of Politics last week, McNamara referred to his former domestic foes as "honorable Americans...
...flight so disturbed Scilingo that he went to a navy chaplain: "He told me that it was a Christian death because they did not suffer, that it was necessary to eliminate them." The Roman Catholic Church, long criticized for tolerating the military, responded last week with a veiled mea culpa chastising priests who may have condoned the "dirty war." But human-rights activists still called upon the church to acknowledge openly its sins of omission...