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While Delta ranks a surprising first and El Al a merited last (see box), few of the airlines land unscathed. In an introduction headed "Thoroughly Fed-Up," Ronay writes: "Herded like cattle, kept uninformed during frequent delays, racked in their tight seats, air travelers are reduced to ciphers and dehumanized." Hungarian-born Ronay nears apoplexy on the subject of airline food: "Only the truly captive situation of the passenger explains how airlines can get away with serving unadulterated rubbish...
...exporting weapons to Northern Ireland. But fund raising, even for terrorists, is not unlawful. Furthermore, any individual can carry up to $5,000 in cash out of the country without reporting it. When suspicious customs inspectors searched some passengers on a charter flight to Ireland from New York City last March, they found that no one was carrying more than $4,900. According to a British intelligence report, Americans contribute more money (an estimated $145,000 a year) to the Provisional I.R.A. than do people in any other country. The largest single U.S. source of cash, according to the report...
Ireland's Prime Minister, Jack Lynch, readily agrees with the Justice Department's strategy. Says he: "If those who contribute believe that their money goes to support widows and orphans, let me make it clear that it goes to make widows and orphans." While touring the U.S. last week, Lynch estimated that "something like 2%" of Ireland's population supports Provo objectives. He pleaded with Irish Americans in Chicago to "desist from giving support to these people." Said Lynch: "If Americans imagine that they are helping Ireland, they are wrong. They are doing just the opposite...
When Miami police led Clarence Mullins off to jail in the morning darkness one day last week, they ended a crime spree that may put Mullins, 26, in the record book. It all began, according to the police, when Mullins stopped a teen-age driver in downtown Miami, relieved him of his valuables, stuffed him in the car trunk and headed for Jackson Memorial Hospital. There he grabbed a nurse and pushed her into the car, but the woman slid out the opposite door before he could drive off. By now police radios all over the city were crackling: Look...
...with the Justice Department. During a routine background investigation, a question was asked that floored Bishop: "Are you living with anybody?" Her answer cost her the job. The department's rationale: cohabitation out of wedlock is "widely regarded as a sign of low character." Bishop filed suit. Last week the Justice Department signed a consent order stating that it cannot refuse to hire someone solely because he or she lives out of wedlock with a person of the opposite sex. Bishop, 33, was pleased, but the ruling did not come soon enough to help her; she is a full...