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...Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, awaiting takeoff clearance from air-traffic controllers. Most travelers do not know precisely who is to blame for such holdups. But Skirlick, who is an air-traffic controller at the busy Palmdale, Calif, traffic center, lays the responsibility squarely on the doorstep of his employer, the Federal Aviation Administration. Says he: "They are simply trying to do more work with fewer people, and the technology is not keeping...
...Arab allies. With the expansion of the conflict, Kuwait sees the good life it has carved out for itself endangered by a war it does not consider its own. Asserts Foreign Minister Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the state's Foreign Minister: "The war is on our doorstep, and we feel the dangers more than others...
...well after the noon hour in the sprawling urban slum where 22-year-old Mali lives. Clothes hang on a nearby line, and small children play in the dusty path. Squatting on a doorstep, Mali (a pseudonym) lifts her scarred right arm and feels for a usable vein. No one seems to notice as she grips one end of a yellow plastic cord in her teeth and winds the other end tightly around her arm, readying it for the needle. It could be the South Bronx, East Los Angeles, Amsterdam or London-the traditional dumping grounds for Asia...
...Latin America's most notorious terrorist careers. When Brazilian federal police descended last week on a modest apartment in Rio de Janeiro's fashionable Ipanema district, their quarry no doubt expected the visit: he had returned home the night before to find Brazilian reporters squatting on his doorstep, clamoring for interviews. After the authorities finally arrived, Mário Eduardo Firmenich, leader of the quondam Argentine urban guerrilla organization known as the Montoneros, surrendered without a struggle...
...Ohno again was the catalyst as he sent Busconi in alone on Silengo with a pretty pass from his own blue line. Busconi finally caught up with the puck in the offensive zone and, from the doorstep, backhanded it by the goaltender at the 4.12 mark...