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...roustabouts who wander from job to job, now building dams in Iran, now forging roads through the Amazon. In Gabon, they live--some with families, some alone--in five camps near the work site. The bases have medical clinics, schools and swimming pools; fresh vegetables, meat and delicacies are flown...
...least 80 members of Delta Force were reprimanded or court-martialed for cheating on their expense accounts. The investigations have spawned a series of news leaks that disclosed a wide array of covert operations undertaken by Special Forces. According to the Washington Post, military pilots posing as civilians have flown secret missions out of Honduras to pinpoint rebel radio transmitters in El Salvador, while other Special Forces agents have engaged in spookery normally associated with the FBI and CIA, like bugging Soviet officials in a hotel room on the West Coast...
...intended to commit suicide at the Vienna airport, as the police had first assumed, but instead were plotting a grand spectacle of murder and revenge. They were evidently hoping to take a number of people at the airport hostage, commandeer an El Al jetliner and order it flown to Tel Aviv where, along with an El Al plane seized simultaneously by their accomplices in Rome, they would destroy the aircraft and everyone on board. The action was to have been in retaliation for the Israeli bombing of P.L.O. headquarters in Tunis last Oct. 1. That attack killed some 70 people...
...close to 400 million passengers climbed aboard scheduled flights, a more than 10% increase over 1983. In 1985, traffic for the first nine months was up nearly 11% from the same period the year before. Many of the flyers are first-timers. The percentage of American adults who have flown at least once is up to 70%, from 65% in 1979. Pleasure travel is growing especially fast. Business trips now account for only 50% of all passengers, down from...
...particularly interested in the Pratt & Whitney JT8D series, a highly respected engine that powered the aircraft involved in three of last year's major accidents. Said one inspector: "The series powers more than half of all the jet planes flying in the Western world, and they've been flown a long time. So naturally we wonder if we've all gotten complacent about them." Pratt & Whitney denies any link between the engines and the fatalities. "The investigations into these crashes are not completed," said a company spokesman, "but so far there are no indications that the engines were at fault...