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...private minds eats away at public responsibility. Judges in separate courtrooms the other day pronounced sentence on Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington (six months for possession of cocaine, the drug that is tearing his city apart) and on three Northwest Airlines pilots who, while drunk one morning last spring, flew a Boeing 727 with 91 passengers aboard from Fargo, N. Dak., to Minneapolis. Mayor Barry, still running the addict's street con, portrayed himself as the victim of racial prejudice and, worse, as a man who has recovered from his problem and mended his ways...
...halted all nonessential capital spending. USAir has delayed taking delivery of 28 new Boeing jets for three years. Chicago-based Midway is closing down its hub at Philadelphia, which it bought only a year ago from Eastern, and plans to sell its operations there to USAir for $67.5 million. Northwest has trimmed its flight schedule by 24 daily flights, or 2% of its total. Even Phoenix-based America West, one of the fastest-growing U.S. carriers, is cutting some late-night and weekend flights...
Tonight: clear and cold, low in the lower 30s in the city, 20s in the suburbs. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph. Tomorrow: mostly sunny, high...
Today: mostly sunny, breezy and colder, high near 45. Northwest wind 15 to 25 mph. Tonight: clear and cold, lows in the lower 30s in the city, 20s in the suburbs. Tomorrow: mostly sunny, high...
...breathtaking brutality, but last week the Irish Republican Army reached a new low when it turned innocent civilians into human bombs. Seven persons were killed and at least 36 injured in synchronized dawn attacks, when two explosive-laden vans blew up at British army checkpoints near Londonderry, in the northwest, and Newry, in the south. Their drivers, one of whom survived, had been forcibly strapped into their seats...