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...dramatically. Aviation sources say the list has grown to more than 31,000, up from 19,000 last September. And a little noticed incident on April 8, involving a Dutch KLM 747 flight from Amsterdam to Mexico City, may result in the list being used even more aggressively. The plane was forbidden by American authorities to enter U.S. airspace because the Department of Homeland Security discovered after the flight had taken off that two of its passengers were on the no-fly list. According to government sources, the two were Saudi men who had undergone pilot training with Sept...
...turf often saves weapons that ought to fade away. Neither the Air Force nor the Army asked for money for the C-12 personnel-carrying aircraft, and the Navy requested only twelve, presumably because all the services knew the politics involved would guarantee them the funds anyway. The transport plane is made by Beech Aircraft, which is owned by Raytheon Co., which happens to be in Massachusetts, the home state of House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He reportedly told Aspin "not to come back" from the conference without funds for the aircraft. In the debate Republican Barry Goldwater, chairman...
...continued funding, for example, for the AMRAAM, a radar-guided Air Force and Navy missile that has technical problems, is more than two years behind schedule and is costing about twice the original estimates (now about $450,000 a missile); and for the P-3C Orion, a patrol plane used in antisubmarine warfare (more than $40 million an aircraft...
...process, they also incurred mammoth future commitments by approving R. and D. funds for five new weapons systems: the Army's multipurpose LHX helicopter; an advanced tactical fighter for the Air Force; a similar attack plane for the Navy; the all-service JVX vertical takeoff aircraft, which has rotors that tilt; and the C-17 cargo transport plane, which could become one of the most expensive aircraft programs in history, now slated at $40 billion. To the legislators, the $1.3 billion in start-up money no doubt looked piddling. The cost of completing the five systems over the next decade...
...cancer. She underwent surgery last fall and has had regular chemotherapy this year. She says Ann has taken her to every appointment and remembered every detail for the doctors. But it's not Ann's nature to sound weepy; among her greatest fears--boredom, irrelevance, getting caught on a plane without a nicotine patch--is sentimentalism. For weeks, as we talked for this story, she wouldn't go on the record about her mom's cancer--she half-jokingly said any humanizing detail might slow attacks from liberals, which help sell books. When she finally relented and said I could...