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Josh Caplan, who shared defensive chores with Biotti at Belmont Hill, doesn't have Biotti's size (at 5-ft., 10-in., 160-lb.) or reputation, but the swingman has the skating ability to help the fleet Crimson...
...Attorney General Edwin Meese and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Navy Secretary John Lehman attacked the deal. John and Michael Walker had committed "the gravest of all possible crimes," charged Lehman. Not giving them the maximum possible sentence, he added, sends "the wrong message to the nation and to the fleet." Weinberger then scolded Lehman for making "injudicious and incorrect statements" about the arrangement...
When the airline industry was deregulated in 1978, American, Delta, United and other major carriers abandoned many unprofitable routes serving smaller cities. Into the void flew a fleet of plucky commuter lines. Relying largely on twin-engine turboprops, the regional airlines, including Atlantic Southeast, Air Wisconsin and Ransome, began turning profits in markets where bigger airlines and their larger planes had lost money...
...firm behind the venture, Society Expeditions of Seattle, Wash., plans to operate two or three flights a week on its fleet of specially built spaceships, each carrying 20 passengers. The only restrictions are that passengers have to be "of normal health" and capable of enduring a normal jet flight, according to company officials...
Among active playwrights, perhaps the most prolific and far-ranging exemplar of the Theater of Ideas is Britain's David Hare, 38. His comedy Pravda, a broadside attack on the political inertia of Fleet Street, co-written with Howard Brenton, has become the hottest ticket in London. He wrote potent screenplays for two current films, Wetherby and Plenty, the latter an adaptation of his 1983 Broadway hit about postwar British decline as reflected in the tormented life of one politically involved woman. Now Hare's A Map of the World, being given its U.S. premiere at the off-Broadway Public...