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Blackburn and Brian Bishop, a respected civil rights attorney, were killed while returning from a black township in the Eastern Cape, where they had been collecting affidavits from parents whose children were detained by security officials. Their car collided head on with an approaching vehicle. Bishop, Blackburn and the driver of the other vehicle were killed instantly...
Faced with such competition, other airlines are fighting back for all they are worth. Delta and Eastern are matching some of People's fares to Florida. Piedmont is offering the same low prices to North Carolina. Continental offers $99 "cheap frills" flights between New York and California and is letting senior citizens fly anywhere in the U.S. for an incredible $65. The first $65 tickets were sold to Susan Brunson, 115, and her "baby daughter" Mary McDaniel, 75, of Roosevelt, N.Y., who plan to fly to Miami or Los Angeles to visit relatives. All the largest airlines, including American, United...
Wall Street thinks that many airlines, including Eastern, Pan Am, Western and Ozark, are vulnerable to takeovers. But People Express is not on the hit list, Burr insists. Says he: "It would be nearly impossible to take over People. We're bulletproof." Burr points out that 62% of his airline's stock is controlled by employees, directors or other friendly investors...
...fall with some nasty allegations about the integrity of one of its scholars, Harvard announced a resolution last week that satisfied no one. In a carefully worded statement, Dean A. Michael Spence disclosed that Professor Nadav Safran would resign this summer as director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, after a ten-week investigation into his acceptance of CIA money to support both a scholarly conference and his book...
...confrontation over Libyan-supported terrorism continued last week, a variety of shocks and aftershocks rumbled through the Middle East. According to Lebanese military sources, Syrian gunners fired two SA-6 missiles at Israeli warplanes flying reconnaissance missions over the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. The missiles reportedly missed their targets because the Israeli planes managed to protect themselves by releasing deception balloons. Israel denied the reports, and there were indications that it may have already curtailed its flights in areas within range of the Syrian weapons...