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Mudanjiang remains ready for war. The military airfield outside this northeastern Chinese industrial city of 600,000 lifts security restrictions just long enough for a twin-engine prop plane from Beijing to deposit its passengers. They are whisked past the barracks of a People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) unit. It is shortly before sundown, and troops are playing soccer, basketball, Ping-Pong and open-air billiards on the edge of the runway, not far from a wing of 70 Chinese-built MiG-21 interceptors, each sheathed in canvas to guard against corrosion in the heavily polluted...
Jackson supporters are complaining about the way Jackson found out. A reporter in the airport informed Jackson of Dukakis decision to pick Senator Bentsen as his running mate. Dukakis said that he phoned Jackson but the reverend was already on a plane going to Washington...
...detailed, two-hour speech, Velayati said the Airbus never heard warnings from the Vincennes, the plane transmitted only unambiguous civilian signals, it remained in the recognized international air corridor and was climbing when the missiles were fired...
Harvard is charging that the union violated NLRB rules on election day by keeping lists of who voted and how, escorting workers to the polls, offering plane fare and transportation assistance to bring pro-union employees to the voting places and electioneering too close to the polling stations...
During a picture-taking session with SalvadoranPresident Jose Napoleon Duarte, who isrecuperating from cancer surgery here, Reagan toldreporters, "I, from the first, have said we're acompassionate people, and I think that we all havecompassion for the families of those unfortunatepeople who were on that plane...