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BOGOTA, Colombia--A Colombian jetliner crashed on the outskirts of Bogota shortly after takeoff yesterday, and all 107 people aboard were killed. A caller to a radio station claimed drug traffickers bombed the jet...
Even as the House was promising last week to cut down on perks in exchange for a pay raise, old habits were asserting themselves. Speaker Thomas Foley was embarrassed to learn about an amendment slipped into the defense-spending bill that required an Air Force C-20 jet be made available to him at all times. A military version of the Gulfstream III, the C-20 carries just eight passengers and is serviced by a crew of five...
...Foley had not asked for an Air Force Three (the President and Vice President have much larger jets). Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha had inserted the provision. He enjoys luxurious travel and undoubtedly figured he could borrow Foley's jet. The Speaker quickly shot down his own plane...
...families no longer discount any theory. "I believe ((the CIA scenario)) is more than possible," says Giebler. She is not alone in her suspicion, nor in her anger about the offer by the Bush Administration to compensate the families of victims killed in the downing of an Iranian passenger jet by the U.S.S. Vincennes in July 1988. Some security analysts conclude that Iran ordered the bombing of Flight 103 to avenge the Iranian Airbus disaster. The families do not disagree. Jeannine Boulanger, whose 21-year-old daughter Nicole was killed over Lockerbie, remembers vividly the day the Iranian plane went...
Rachel Sweet is a baby-voiced comedian with jet-black hair piled high in a ponytail that makes her look like Pebbles Flintstone. She used to sing in a + new-wave rock band and now studies art history at Columbia University. But starting this week, she will be spending her evenings curled up on a sofa in a Manhattan TV studio, making wisecracks about the single life in New York City. Typical bit: Rachel charts the differences between a guy she dated named David Sims and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Has fancy cigarette holder. F.D.R.: yes. Sims: no. Tried...