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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sell to a militia unit. There were reports, on CNN and elsewhere, that Button may have been suicidal because he was upset over the recent conversion of his mother to the Jehovah's Witness faith, which espouses antiwar beliefs. But Button's father Richard, a veteran pilot who flew in three wars, and his mother Joan released a statement on Saturday saying they have both been "active" Jehovah's Witnesses for more than 20 years. Air Force officials say it is more likely that the plane or its pilot was disabled in some way--by a bird hitting the cockpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DESTINATION UNKNOWN | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...which involve the belts for the right-side seat in the minivans' second row, according to the Associated Press. In one complaint, South Carolina resident Lynn Beaty hit the brakes on her 1992 Dodge Caravan to avoid hitting two deer, and the child seat holding her toddler flew forward, landing upside down with her daughter still in it. Identical parts were used in the 1991-93 Dodge Caravan and Grand Caravan, Plymouth Voyager and Grand Voyager and Chrysler Town and Country minivans. This is the latest of several safety investigations for Chrysler's minivan. In 1995, after reports that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faulty Belts | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

...proceeds to restock its air wings with newer versions of the Falcon. Industry executives and Perry aides began publicly plugging the idea of lifting the restrictions: the countries of Latin America save for Cuba were now democratic, their economies were rebounding, and the jets their air forces flew in many cases were 1950s vintage, went the spiel. "We treat the Latins like children when we say they can't have new planes," says Joel Johnson, the Aerospace Industries Association's international vice president, implying that to have fully adult relations with other countries requires supplying them with sophisticated armaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW WASHINGTON WORKS...ARMS DEALS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...arms lobby first had to stir up demand among the Latin Americans. The Pentagon quietly arranged for Puerto Rican Air National Guard pilots to fly Brazilian generals in F-16s. In March 1996 an armada of U.S. warplanes flew to Chile for an air show. As scores of Latin American officers and hundreds of civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW WASHINGTON WORKS...ARMS DEALS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...Ellen Morgan really gay all along, before not only the character knew it but DeGeneres and the writers as well? According to Dava Savel, one of Ellen's three executive producers, sparks often flew between DeGeneres and female guests. She cites in particular an episode with Janeane Garafalo. "There wasn't supposed to be a lesbian thing at all, but afterward we were watching the tape and we were like, 'Whoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ROLL OVER, WARD CLEAVER | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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