Word: reno
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WASHINGTON -- Senator Robert Smith of New Hampshire, who believes that U.S. soldiers may still be alive in Vietnam, has asked Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate what he calls "potential federal criminal violations" by 10 former and current high officials at the State Department, the Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency. In a letter obtained by TIME, Smith, former vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs, charges that the 10 officials withheld information from him and lied to his committee...
Saying he did not intend to offer his resignation, FBI Director William Sessions nevertheless cut short a Chicago trip to meet with his boss, Attorney General Janet Reno. Neither would comment after the half-hour conference on Saturday; as Sessions left, he tripped over a curb and broke two bones in his elbow. A day earlier, President Clinton met with Sessions' possible successor: Judge Louis Freeh of New York...
...deregulation in the early 1980s, it seems that almost everyone with a hankering to start an airline is suddenly preparing for takeoff. Despite an industrywide slump and record losses of $8 billion since 1990, some 15 passenger airlines have begun flying in the past year alone. They range from Reno Air, a full-service carrier based in Nevada that regales its passengers with California Chardonnays and fancy food baskets, to Morris Air, a low- budget, no-frills outfit started by former Salt Lake City, Utah, travel agent June Morris, the first female founder of an airline. Other newcomers include Kiwi...
...million new can now be bought or leased for about $2 million a plane. And with so many out-of-work pilots eager to fly, the new carriers have been able to recruit flight crews for less than half the top union scale of $150,000 a year. Says Reno Air president Jeff Erickson: "This is the perfect time for a start...
...start-ups have already received more protection from Clinton Democrats than they received in the entire deregulated Republican 1980s. When Reno Air cried foul after Northwest Airlines tried to squeeze the smaller carrier out of the Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle markets last March, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena pressured the bigger carrier to withdraw under the threat of antitrust action...