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...ANTONIO: The FAA may not approve of a TWA pilot's newest safety technique, but it's hard to quarrel with success. Late Tuesday, when Flight 199 was 15 miles southwest of the San Antonio International Airport, a cockpit light indicated that the tail stairwell door of the Boeing 727 had fallen open about two feet. (The 70 or so passengers would have noticed even faster but for a bulkhead between the gaping hole and their compartment.) Incredibly, the crew wasted no time in selecting one of its number to fix the problem. "They did use a rope and tied...
...used to operating in a large group of men. I had learned to quarrel. That was helpful," she says...
...greatest single lesson of the brutal 20th century should be the monumental error of appeasement at Munich. Neville Chamberlain, echoing comments that we hear today from very reputable corners, said the Nazi drive to overtake Czechoslovakia was a quarrel "in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing." Less than two years after the agreement, Europe was engulfed...
...biological weapons. According to this line, the general, who in the first place had presided over the stockpiling of Iraq's most dangerous arsenals, argued that the sooner the regime comes clean, the quicker the country might resume oil exports and normal economic life. At bottom, though, the quarrel seems to have been over spoils: black-market profits, cuts of foreign business deals and all the other perks flowing from high rank in a dictatorship. Said Phebe Marr, an Iraq expert at Washington's National Defense University: "It's a terrific feud in the family, and it's been pretty...
...auto pact kept the peace -- for now -- largely because, in the grand tradition of U.S.-Japanese trade settlements, it left Washington and Tokyo ample room to quarrel about just what it was they had agreed to. Clinton enthused, "This agreement is specific. It is measurable. It will achieve real, concrete results." In Tokyo, however, Hisashi Hosokawa, a hard-line miti official, insisted that "this agreement is a rejection of numerical targets" for Japanese purchases of American cars and parts. His boss, miti Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, may have strengthened his already bright chances for becoming Japan's next Prime Minister...