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...position had ever done: she fought back. In an emotional press conference, she berated the goons and demanded the authorities take swift, merciless action. The move made her an instant celebrity, with newspapers printing running accounts of her ordeal. The public huffed. Politicians puffed. And, after some delay, a posse of high-ranking police officers was dispatched to tackle the case. The hostage-takers fled and on Sept. 4, more than four weeks into her nightmare, Huang was able to retrieve her sister...
...people thought the Federal Aviation Administration could, as it promised, solve the delay problem at New York's LaGuardia Airport in six months...
...Plavin, and others, hope the FAA will keep the ball rolling at the other top ten delay-plagued airports in the country. Then, perhaps, passengers won't have to suffer through another year like the last one, during which one out of every four flights was delayed. "The debates about how to fix the problems at LaGuardia are a microcosm of what's going on around the country," explains Plavin. "If the FAA gets LaGuardia right, there is no reason that parts of what works at LaGuardia can't be applied to other airports...
What is the problem with the FBI? The discovery of missing files and the consequent delay in the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh [NATION, May 21] are a disgusting injustice to the victims, their families and the American people. Law-enforcement officials have made mistakes resulting in public embarrassment over recent years, but for the highest crime-fighting federal agency to bungle such a crucial case is an atrocity. There is no doubt that McVeigh committed this crime and deserves to die. The information in the newly found files is inconsequential. STEPHANIE ROUSSEL Walker...
...Many had expected Matsch to grant McVeigh?s request for the delay; the defense argued that the government had committed "a fraud upon the court" by withholding almost 4,000 documents from the trial. (The documents were uncovered by FBI staffers less than a week before McVeigh?s original execution date in May). Those documents, the defense insists, may identify new accomplices - and potentially shift some of the blame from McVeigh?s shoulders...