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...Soviet empire suddenly removed the dark moral counterweight by which Americans measured their own virtue. Chronic recession, the rise of Japanese and European economic competitors, the vast inflow of immigrants from non-European sources (strangers to the older American tradition), the shrinking of the buffering Atlantic and Pacific oceans (jet travel, satellites, global distribution of goods), all these have eaten away at the long American smugness, the postwar sense of superiority, of grace...
...dramatically reduced. Lever Bros., for instance, manufactures a superconcentrated powder laundry detergent in small boxes, saving the equivalent of 13 million plastic bottles a year. L & F Products sells its Lysol brand and other liquid cleaners in Smart Packs that take up 65% less landfill space than the jet-spray containers they are designed to refill. Imperial Chemical Industries of London has developed a plastic, soon to be distributed in the U.S., that biodegrades with or without exposure to air and sunlight...
Things were simpler then. Last week at the gaudy end of the Republican Convention the 41st President roared off from Houston in a six-story, 227,000- lb.-thrust 747-200B jet. George Bush's seven-plane campaign air force began to crisscross the country from Gulfport to Hartford, bearing hundreds of advance men, surrogates, White House aides, Secret Service agents and reporters. These hordes will follow Bush through countless paralyzing motorcades and rallies, accompanied by helicopters, armored limousines, blocky weapons vans and scores of VIP-toting luxury autos, all in search of the elusive voter...
...spokesman at New York's Kennedy Airport was incredulous that everyone on this gutted plane had survived. The fire aboard TWA Flight 843 erupted in the rear of the L-1011 jumbo jet as it was about to lift off for San Francisco with 292 aboard. The pilot aborted the takeoff, the plane crashed through a runway barrier and the crew chuted out the passengers with expert precision; 55 people suffered minor injuries. Other air travelers were not so lucky. A Thai jetliner carrying 113 people reportedly slammed into a Himalayan mountainside as it approached Katmandu, Nepal; all are feared...
Attempts to defraud the U.S. government in a sale of military jet engines to Israel wound up costing General Electric $69 million. In a Cincinnati federal court, GE's aircraft-engine division settled civil and criminal charges of conspiring with an Israeli air force general to bill the Pentagon for fictitious parts and testing equipment. A GE manager stationed in Israel between 1984 and 1989 blew the whistle on his employer two years...