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...motley mix of military equipment???U.S.-built M60 tanks, Soviet-supplied personnel carriers, field guns made in South Korea?gleamed in the sun, ready to roll, polished to spit-shine perfection...
...staying home for two days, claiming to be sick. The FAA declared that PATCO had encouraged the sickout and that it would no longer recognize the union. For three weeks in the spring of 1970, some 3,000 controllers claimed illness and stayed off the job. "We had no equipment???it was dangerous, dangerous," recalls Carl Vaughn, 45, a Pittsburgh controller. "Little or no automation had been introduced, and near misses were a common occurrence." The FAA reacted by firing some 100 local PATCO leaders and temporarily suspending most of the sickout participants. Still, the FAA seemed...
...safe as flying in the noisier and slower piston-en-gined aircraft of the mid-'50s. Over the years, airframes have become sturdier and engines not only much more powerful but much more reliable. The FAA, the manufacturers and the airlines poured millions into developing better flight control equipment???sophisticated radars and navigation aids. Military innovations were adopted for commercial use. The FAA steadily tightened flight regulations, prescribing in minute detail how and where planes should fly, how they should be controlled from the ground...
...doubt that Lockheed can repay its loans on time is that civilian sales of the TriStar are lagging because of the recession: the company did not book a single order last year. Another reason is that Lockheed is counting heavily on continued large foreign sales of military equipment???and the publicity about its bribery can only hurt. The Japanese Government last week dropped tentative plans to buy $650 million worth of Lockheed's long-range, low-altitude P-3C Orion planes, which are capable of detecting and destroying submarines. Indeed, the Japanese are having second thoughts about buying...
...supply is refined into heroin at simple clandestine laboratories in southern France. It has come into the U.S. concealed in the toilets of international jets, in cans carrying Spanish fish labels, in hollowed-out ski poles, in automobiles, in false-bottomed wine bottles and crates, in shipments of electronic equipment???the smugglers' ingenuity is inexhaustible, and the supply of lawmen to deal with it is not large. The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs has 850 agents. They have not always been above temptation: 14 were indicted in 1969 for drug trafficking. U.S. Customs men are spread thin...