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Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, who has jurisdiction over the Secret Service, announced that a review of the shooting spree and White House security procedures would be incorporated into a study already under way. It follows September's safety scare in which a light plane crash-landed on the White House grounds and slid into the wall below the President's bedroom, killing only the depressed pilot. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, which maintains the grounds and building, is working on a long-range plan for White House preservation, tourism and work space. The White House is the world's power...
...sign of growing tensions, U.N. officials said a plane from a government held in northwestern Bosnia...
Federal investigators say planes like the American Eagle that crashed in Indiana last week should be temporarily barred from flying in conditions that could cause steering mechanism icing. This development follows mounting evidence that the plane rolled out of control while on autopilot in just such conditions. The FAA has already barred crews of the ATR-72 -- the model of the American Eagle plane -- and of the similar ATR-42 from using the automatic pilot in icing conditions. But in a letter yesterday the government's National Transportation Safety Board urged the FAA to take the planes out of service...
Banville left on the next plane, and CARE evacuated its entire foreign staff from Katale shortly thereafter. The letter, it turned out, had not been sent by ordinary aid recipients but by their self-appointed leaders, former members of Rwanda's extremist Hutu government that orchestrated the death of more than 500,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. It was only the latest in a series of increasingly dire threats by these leaders aimed at eliminating outside interference in the camps and tightening their control of food distributions. The power play has presented those responsible for the relief effort with...
Senior members of the U.S. delegation even thought they had figured out how to elicit such statements. They invited onto the press plane an Israeli journalist who, at the news conference scheduled to be held in Assad's marble palace, could be expected to ask a leading question. The ploy backfired. When the journalist asked Assad whether he might ease Israeli fears by opening direct talks or visiting the country, Assad coldly turned aside the chance to offer reassurance, saying instead that one country's security concerns were no excuse for holding on to another country's territory...