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...Federal Aviation Administration, pressed by pilots to crack down on the gadgets, issued an advisory late last week that left it up to the airlines to set their own rules. Delta has already expanded its list of forbidden devices to include video playback machines and CD players. With the arrival of new "fly-by-wire" aircraft, which are heavily computerized and even more vulnerable to interference, passengers may have to go back to reading paperbacks and watching the in-flight movie...
Most spy masters, from Richard Helms to William Casey, have preferred to keep the CIA out of corporate spying. Although the agency is forbidden to provide information directly to private companies, it will usually pass on tips through back channels when it stumbles across foreign schemes to steal commercial secrets. However, if the spy service happens upon foreign-trade secrets that would be useful to American firms, it must by policy keep the information to itself. That's as far as most CIA directors have been willing...
...asked to remain unnamed, said, "The situation [in Saudi Arabia] will become more and more unbearable, and then it will explode because the condition of repression of human beings can't continue forever." She was referring to the mixture of Islamic and conservative Arab traditions in which women are forbidden to travel alone or drive and must be veiled in public...
ELEVEN YEARS AFTER TURNING OUT HIS first, delicious spoof of big-time musicals, Gerard Alessandrini is still skewering away -- wicked as ever. His 12th and latest off-Broadway review, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 1993, is as up to date as Kansas City and as funny as anything that happened on the way to the forum. New shows (the flop Anna Karenina, Patti LuPone in the not-even-yet-produced Sunset Boulevard) are raked over the coals; old chestnuts (a frenzied Les Miz, a nontraditional Miss Saigon) are freshly roasted. The song titles alone delight (to the tune of Somewhere Over the Rainbow...
...Convention articles and United Nations resolutions. For example, U.N. Resolution 194 calls for the return of any Palestinians made refugees in 1948 and for the compensation of those who do not wish to return. But Palestinians driven from their land in the 1948 and 1967 wars with Israel are forbidden from returning by the Israeli authorities. Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights is another glaring violation of U.N. resolutions...