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...York City restaurants and pushed national chains to divulge fat and calorie content on their menus is agitating for more change. The Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is now calling for easy public access to restaurant health-code grades, improved health-inspector training and a nationwide standard for restaurant inspections...
...over Petrella's acts as a member of the extreme-left Red Brigades, which battled Italian governments in the 1970s and 1980s in a campaign of assassination, kidnapping, and terror. In 1992 a Rome court convicted Petrella in absentia for her role in the 1981 murder of a police inspector and the kidnapping of a judge. The following year, Petrella fled to France and an open-ended deal proposed in 1985 by French President François Mitterrand: amnesty for Red Brigades members who gave up their battle in Italy to lead law-abiding lives in France...
...next day deputy assistant inspector general Larry Weintrob and two other officials from my office walked into the Atlanta office of the FAA. There was only one major question: What is the FAA doing about ValuJet? Weintrob pressed for details about the recent spate of accidents. The reply stunned him. Confused, the FAA inspectors asked, What spate? The inspectors admitted they didn't know how many accidents there had been. Taken aback, Weintrob and his team laid out details: In its short life, Valujet had had more than its share of accidents and mishaps. Its planes repeatedly overshot runways...
...dialed the Inspector General's investigations office. "Send an investigator with a subpoena over" to the FAA, I demanded. For once, government wheels turned quickly, and the investigator rushed to the FAA. The meeting was already over, though, and FAA officials said they knew nothing about the memo...
...first months as Inspector General, I learned that my predecessors had made only occasional forays to review just how the FAA inspected parts manufacturers and suppliers. The FAA was satisfied with the procedures in place for monitoring parts makers and brokers. But I couldn't help noticing the reports that crossed my desk: allegations about fraudulent aircraft parts were more numerous than ever, aging aircraft fleets still needed replacement parts that their manufacturers no longer made, more and more parts makers were foreign operations, the number of parts brokers and distributors was increasing every year, and the price of parts...