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...This time, would the strikes continue, hostages or no? Following the Serbian bridge attack and French counterattack, there were hints of more bombing, notably from U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, who cut short a visit to Italy to meet with his British and German counterparts at London's Gatwick airport on Saturday. At a news conference, Perry declared that the credibility of the international community was at stake. But the impression he left was that further confrontation was on hold -- as one Washington official had put it earlier, "to let tempers cool...
...Iraqi Airways jumbo jet carrying 426 evacuees--including 170 Americans--left Baghdad bound for London, said officials at Gatwick airport near London...
...three "closed centers," the detention areas for those boat people recognized as potentially legitimate refugees. In Thailand . about 300,000 Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese refugees are held behind barbed wire, subsisting on meager rations; some have lived this way for ten years. Detention centers at Britain's Heathrow and Gatwick airports shelter some arrivals for as long as a year. In Miami up to 700 refugees, mostly Haitians, have at times been crammed into the Krome Avenue Detention Center, which was built to hold 525 people...
...pound buys $1.87 (up from $1.04 in 1985), Britons are taking advantage of package deals such as a Virgin Atlantic Airways offer that takes them to New York on a Thursday, deposits them in a hotel for three nights and gets them back, bleary-eyed, to London's Gatwick Airport by the following Monday morning -- all for $690. A similar jaunt from London to Rome would cost $537 -- but the pound does not go nearly as far in Italy as it does...
...mechanic wanted to take the engine apart, but a foreman overruled him, and four months later the engine blew up after the plane took off from Miami. The airline denies any connection between the incidents. In a separate episode in February, a Continental 747 taking off from London's Gatwick Airport abruptly lost power in one engine. The plane came close enough to a hill at the end of the runway that control-tower operators set off the crash alarms...