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...gear that could be used to alert the pilots from anywhere in the plane (a cabin-crew member now must go to one end of the plane or the other to use an internal phone). And on Sept. 5, flight attendants will converge on Capitol Hill to make their plea to Congress in person. --By Sally B. Donnelly
...less quixotic than Sierra Leone's current war-scarred state would suggest. Age, says the 70-year-old widower, is no impediment to his plans, but money is. That is why, when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York next month, he'll be making a special plea for funding for the TRC. Peace, like war, doesn't come cheap. Q&A TIME: What are your goals for your second term? Kabbah: To stabilize the peace process and rehabilitate and reconstruct our infrastructure. I've vowed that no Sierra Leonean will go to bed hungry. We want...
...Qaeda seemed likely. But the influence of al-Qaeda on the Taliban was proving deeply unpopular among ordinary Afghans, especially in the urban centers. "I thought at most 20% of the population supported the Taliban by early summer," says Vendrell. And bin Laden's power made Massoud's plea for outside assistance more urgent. "We told the Americans--we told everyone--that al-Qaeda was set upon a transnational program," says Abdullah Abdullah, once a close aide to Massoud and now the Afghan Foreign Minister. In April, Massoud addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, seeking support for the Northern...
...under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), is close to restating the past three years of earnings by more than $1 billion; apparel maker Warnaco is now in the SEC's cross hairs; and prosecutors were driving a hard bargain in plea negotiations with ImClone's ex-CEO Samuel Waksal, insisting that he accept at least seven years in prison on insider-trading charges and declining to spare his family members from prosecution...
...PLEA ENTERED. By ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, 34, who previously tried to plead guilty to conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks; of not guilty; in Alexandria, Va. Moussaoui changed his mind after the judge informed him the plea meant confessing to detailed involvement in the attacks, which he denies...