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After a brief discussion of how to return to the flight path, the crew steered the plane toward a mountain and attempted to fly over it, but failed to clear by 200 feet...
...time, House leaders were talking vaguely about a "glide path" toward a balanced budget in seven years. To Budget chairman John Kasich, that meant passing the normal five-year budget in a form that would simply make credible the idea of wiping out the deficit two years later. When Gingrich suddenly announced in late January that the Republicans would offer a seven-year plan to bring the deficit down to zero, Kasich was stunned. He was, after all, the guy who had to make the numbers...
Author of The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power...
McVeigh has claimed he visited the Branch Davidian compound near Waco during the federal siege that ended in fire and death on April 19, 1993, exactly two years before the Oklahoma City bombing. "It was very poorly handled," he says. Was it Waco that set him off on a path through Arizona and on to Kansas, where he allegedly rented the Ryder truck that carried the bomb, and then to Oklahoma City, where eyewitnesses saw him on the morning of the explosion? Will his trial, sometime in 1996, exonerate him? And if not, will it somehow make comprehensible the mind...
Signs of some suspected mine clusters can be spotted from the air by Apache helicopters. Explosive-sniffing dogs and tank-mounted rakes and rollers can help clear a path through a minefield, but many mines will have to be dug out by hand. Says General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff: "That's why an awful lot of soldiers have been spending a lot of time on their hands and knees learning the old-fashioned way" during training exercises in Germany. The difficulties of clearing mines are immensely multiplied if roads and fields are covered...