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...Cypress bingo parlor is a corrugated-tin warehouse the size of an airplane hangar. It is surrounded by ramshackle houses and lots of old cars rusting on cinder blocks and stray dogs with mange and a few horses and small herds of cattle grazing in the swampy heart of South Florida that is the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation. It seats 5,600 players and is the largest bingo parlor in the world. Every Saturday and Sunday morning, players are flown in from foreign countries, bused in from Canada and 38 states, bused in from every city in Florida...
...disappearance. Yet just two days later the federal police comandante in charge of the investigation, Armando Pavon Reyes, allowed the gangster to leave Guadalajara by private plane in the full view of three DEA agents. Records obtained by the DEA indicate that Pavon Reyes made a call from the hangar phone at Guadalajara to the office of Manuel Ibarra, then head of the federal police. Though the U.S. has no record of the conversation, DEA officials suspect that Ibarra was being asked to approve Caro Quintero's departure. Pavon Reyes, one of the officials indicted last week as an accessory...
According to King, Eastern foremen have a good reason to defer maintenance: they can earn bonuses for getting planes out of the hangar fast. Under an Eastern incentive program started in January, the airline's employees set performance goals for themselves, subject to management approval. In the case of the Boston maintenance station, the goal is to make sure that less than 4% of all flights miss their scheduled departure times because of delays resulting from repairs, preflight loading, cleaning or the like. King says one supervisor earned an extra $800 through the incentive program in the first three months...
...feels it in its bones as summer rushes in and President Reagan rushes out. It is the seven-year presidential itch. The ebb of power is melancholy reality, the days of glory meticulously numbered. Air Force One, soon to be replaced by a grander, fancier model, sits in its hangar eager for a last run around the track. So hail and farewell, Mr. President, and good luck and fun in Europe. The fresh faces of James Madison High School in Vienna, Va., cheer him off from the sweet sweep of the South Lawn. The creaky jet still has some spirit...
...Stark crewmen struggled to put the tragedy behind them. Last week the remains of 35 of the 37 dead sailors arrived at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base. Under a bruised sky, pallbearers carried the flag-draped coffins from the belly of a cargo plane and into a concrete hangar. After a brief memorial service marked by quiet sobs, the coffins were shipped to grave sites in small towns such as Greeleyville, S.C., and Fitchburg, Mass., all far, far away from the Persian Gulf...