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...American public knows him instead as a suspected terrorist. The U.S. government claims Ford flew to Hong Kong last October with four others intending to enter Afghanistan to fight against American forces. None of the five actually made it to Afghanistan. Ford returned to Portland in November, according to the indictment...
...Ballagan felt that a Bollywood film would be the most effective way to air the subject of sexual health. So she pried $30,000 out of the National Health Service, convinced a prominent Birmingham writer, Rod Dungate, to develop a script, and flew to Bombay. There she roped in producer and director Gautam Verma, known for not shying away from controversial topics. He, in turn, persuaded several top soap stars to take part. "You could see a bit of fear on their faces," recalls Ballagan. "They were wondering if they would ruin their reputations acting in an AIDS movie...
...Doyen has made especially explosive allegations, which he says he'll substantiate in court. Last month, Van Espen raided Airbus headquarters in Toulouse and took away documents. An Airbus spokesman says the company doesn't comment on legal affairs. Sabena was in trouble for years. Founded in 1923, it flew routes across Europe and within the Congo, Belgium's African colony, and grew rapidly in its late-1940s-and-1950s heyday. Then came the end of the colonial period, the 1970s fuel shocks, labor strife and mounting losses requiring regular government bailouts. By the 1980s Sabena was being lampooned...
...didn't kill Sabena. Corporate misconduct did. As the commission has dug into company files, it has unearthed troubling details about a range of decisions, most notably the Airbus deal. Sabena was a longtime Boeing customer and a group inside Sabena lobbied hard to buy Boeing planes. But Swissair flew Airbus and Reutlinger insisted Sabena should, too; at one point he even threatened a Swiss withdrawal if the decision went against Airbus, according to several testimonies. The board signed off on the 34-plane order at its Nov. 17, 1997 meeting, even without seeing the paperwork. One month later, directors...
...PLEE-UH-DEEZ.” In Greek mythology, the Pleiades are a group of seven sisters who were renowned for their beauty. The hunter Orion became smitten with the sisters, who asked Zeus for help in escaping his affection. He turned them into doves and they flew into the sky and became a constellation of stars...