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...least 245 deaths. The bleak performance has ruffled even the most intrepid flyers, and now is raising disturbing issues about flight overcrowding and inattention to safety that could give airlines a bumpy ride in the months ahead. "The 'driver' is economics, not safety," Charles Miller, a former safety inspector for the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, charged last week...
...they concentrate at first on shaking down local merchants. One difference, officials agree, is that the modern gang is vastly more violent and better armed than its predecessors. The Viet Ching, Vietnamese of Chinese extraction in Los Angeles, pack .357 Magnums and, occasionally, machine guns. In San Francisco, says Inspector John McKenna, "it's not uncommon to see guys carrying grenades...
Also work harder. Earlier this month, for instance, the Soviets expanded the definition of "diplomatic pouch" to ship 35 tons of cargo marked embassy "household goods" out of Baltimore harbor without the presence of even a single Customs inspector. Pentagon officials blamed the State Department for naively waving the shipment through and failing to notify the proper Customs officials of the impending Soviet move...
Searches of John's two-story brick-and-wood home in Norfolk, as well as his houseboat, single-engine plane, camper, two cars and the offices of his three private-detective agencies, turned up a collection of gadgets and paraphernalia worthy of both Inspector Clouseau and James Bond. It included a clerical collar, fake IDs and business cards, a .357 magnum pistol, a walking cane that contains a gun, another that conceals a dagger and yet a third that holds hidden vials. When authorities opened his safe-deposit box, No. 257 at a Norfolk branch of the Bank of Virginia...
...whisky to Government employees at Christmas, but the Pentagon last year ruled that those gifts were improper and barred the company from all Defense Department work for three years. Lehman's sanctions were not as strong as those recommended in April by Joseph H. Sherick, the Pentagon's inspector general. He had proposed suspending General Dynamics' top three officers from doing business with the Pentagon...