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...search party confirmed last night that five U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents were killed in a mysterious weekend plane crash in Peru's cocaine-producing jungle. The CASA C-212 twin-engine plane went down Saturday in the Upper Huallaga Valley, a remote area in one of only two South American regions where illegal coca leaves are grown. Peruvian air force commandos spotted the wreckage Sunday, but heavy rains and thick vegetation hampered the recovery operation for a day. A D.E.A. investigation is trying to discover whether armed drug traffickers or Shining Path guerrillas who infest the area played...
Even a Democratic victory in both chambers could be a headache. If the House adopts a bill calling for universal coverage now and the Senate passes something resembling Mitchell's, the House-Senate conference will face an exercise in tricky coupling that could be like resting a cargo plane on a bicycle. But with the approach of Election Day, by which date many lawmakers want a health-care bill to offer voters, the pressure may rise sufficiently to seal all the points of attachment. "If we don't get this done this year," Mitchell warns, "it will be well into...
Wednesday's jetliner crash on a South Korean tourist island -- the one in which all 160 people aboard miraculously escaped -- turns out to be pilot error. Police in Seoul say that as the plane neared the runway, the Canadian pilot accused the South Korean co-pilot of trying to manipulate the joystick, since the two disagreed on exactly where to land. Interested parties will have to wait for a police analysis of the cockpit's voice recorder to see if the squabbling may have caused the accident...
...Frank, co-founder of the candy company E.J. Brach & Sons, died at the age of 79. They met in Miami in 1950 at a country club where she ran the hat-check concession. She wasn't very social. She was obsessively attached to her pets; she once chartered a plane home from the Bahamas to tend a mongrel with a bad kidney. She favored wigs. Chicago fed off such stuff as the mystery remained unsolved and theories proliferated. One was that the handyman did it and put the corpse through a meat grinder. Another: that she was an amnesiac living...
...liability lawyers on aviation. The troubles are grave. In 1978 manufacturers produced 17,800 small airplanes. Today they turn out fewer than 1,000, a 95% drop in business, much of it due to the fears of lawsuits. Under existing laws, manufacturers can be sued any time a plane breaks down or is involved in an accident -- even if the sturdy little flyer has flown reliably for a quarter-century. Piper Aircraft Corp. of Vero Beach, Florida, made the famous Cub -- the little yellow plane that thrilled county-fair audiences with rides and stunts like the Flying Farmer, a "runaway...