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...glitches in Denver's airport fixable anytime soon...
...DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...
With its glass-walled atrium and skywalk, marble-walled terminal and soaring, Teflon-spired roof mimicking the peaks of the nearby Rockies, the brand-new Denver International Airport, the nation's largest, would be a prize for most cities. But there was no joy in the Mile-High City last week as Mayor Wellington Webb summoned reporters to his city-hall office to announce an indefinite delay in the airport's opening. To begin operations prematurely with a malfunctioning baggage system, the mayor warned, could be "disastrous...
...Denver's city council deepened the task by refusing to award the job of operating the system to BAE, the only company that really knows anything about it. Leaders were worried that the Dallas outfit wouldn't hire enough minorities and women, though the firm insisted it would. In the wake of political infighting over who should get the lucrative contract, it went to an outsider, Aircraft Service International of Miami, which has had to race to fathom the system in a few months. Then too the eagerness of Denver's leaders to retain control and ensure minority participation...
Game Sunday at Denver...