Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Chicago, Correspondent Madeleine Nash reported on traffic-handling procedures at O'Hare Airport, the nation's busiest: Correspondent Marion Knox spent a day in the control tower at New York City's Kennedy Airport for a firsthand look at the pressures facing controllers who must keep track of as many as 87 arrivals and departures in a peak hour...
West Germany's excellent safety record has been compiled against overwhelming odds. The nation has the most dangerous airspace in Western Europe: 11,000 private, military and commercial flights a day?one every eight seconds?crisscross an area roughly the size of Illinois. What is worse, the coordination between commercial and military flights is so poor that Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has ordered a Cabinet study of the problem. In 1976 there were 221 "near collisions"?approaches close enough to terrify those who knew what had happened. Says a senior air traffic controller at Koln-Bonn airport: "It's like...
...successor, Jimmy Carter has nominated Langhorne M. Bond, 40, the secretary of the Illinois department of transportation. Bond will have the job of finding ways to develop the necessary devices and programs to reduce even further the hazards of flying. Then Bond will have to persuade and direct the nation's great airline companies to do what is best. It need not be that difficult an assignment: as a whole, the industry has been willing and often eager to spend the required money to modify aircraft in the interests of safety. There are few industries where the interests...
...black star airports, three belong to the world's most technologically advanced nation...
...Katangese have raised the sharpest challenge yet to Mobutu. A Belgian-trained soldier and former journalist, Mobutu has managed to unify a nation with a bloody history of chaos and tribal war. Parceling out privileged positions and sinecures to leaders of Zaïre's 200 ethnic groups, Mobutu in return demanded and got almost feudal loyalty. High-living and profligate, he tried to burnish his image as a 20th century chief by such flamboyant stunts as the "Rumble in the Jungle" between Heavy-weights Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974, which lost the government $4.1 million...