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...spooked some instructors shortly after cadets started flying it in January 1995. At a meeting a week before the first crash, several grumbled that the T-3 lacked parachutes. "It's crazy that we don't fly with parachutes," said one of the instructors present, Captain Dan Fischer. "It's an FAA regulation if you do acrobatics." Air Force superiors said the service didn't have to obey Federal Aviation Administration rules even though the T-3, unlike most Air Force planes, is registered with the FAA. Back at his apartment, Fischer was blunter. "Someone's going to die before...
...Every Ramadan, the Islamists step up not only the pace but the ferocity of their killings," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer says, adding that this year has been even more bloodthirsty than usual. Victims have been burned alive, hacked to death with machetes, had their throats slit or been mutilated...
...Fischer says that the international inquiry wasn't meant to implicate the government: "Its purpose would be to establish the facts of the massacres, some specific culpability--things which are notably absent in this case." Yet Algerian officials, who maintain the violence is only "residual" even as public squares teem with villagers seeking refuge, continue to refuse any outside interference. For many Algerians it will be a long, terrifying January...
Members of the Department will meet to consider some specific revisions within the next week, said A. W. Crompton, Fischer professor of natural history, who co-teaches the course...
...stage for Hitler. The organization today operates from a headquarters in Washington only a few blocks from the White House, which alone makes it suspect in the eyes of some countries. Its top executives include managing director Michel Camdessus (a Frenchman) and first deputy managing director Stanley Fischer (an American). They report to a 24-person international executive board. The IMF staff is small--just 1,100 professionals, including 759 economists--only one-fifth the size of its sister agency the World Bank, which was established at the same time and funds development projects in the Third World...