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...since the days of F.D.R., critics have argued that the regulators are a too independent, too powerful and too free-spending fourth arm of Government. "The agencies today," says a leading eco nomic policymaker in the Carter Administration, "are inde pendent baronies. They're like castles on the Rhine in the Middle Ages, when each castle stopped boats and collected a toll. Each agency collects its toll...
...March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on the fog-shrouded runway of Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife, the largest of Spain's Canary Islands. The disaster was the worst in aviation history, with a death toll of 583, including all aboard KLM's Rhine River and all but 61 people on Pan Am's Clipper Victor. Last week the Spanish government released the findings of an 18-month investigation of the crash. The verdict: KLM Captain Jacob Veldhuizen Van Zanten's decision to start his takeoff run without tower clearance was the "fundamental cause...
...California brand comes from the hot interior area, once known for producing low-grade grapes that were largely used in cheap jug wines. The company then prepared a $1.5 million ad campaign to introduce the California wines with a splash. The promotions show Taylor's rose, Rhine and burgundy being taste-tested and found superior to similar popularly priced ($1.90 to $2.99 a bottle) wines. Many of the 27 judges in the tests were not professionals but merely wine buffs who are members of the San Francisco Vintners Club, which meets for weekly wine tastings...
...revealed last week, the suspects had been virtually handed over to the federal crime police antiterrorist squad by an observant helicopter pilot in Michelstadt, Karin Rieger. She reported that the three fugitives, equipped with a camera and video-tape equipment, had chartered her chopper for several flights over the Rhine Valley, ostensibly to film historic castles. Rieger became suspicious when she noticed that the supposed "film crew" not only handled their equipment awkwardly but repeatedly insisted on flying over the Frankenthal prison, where three other notorious terrorists have been locked up. They also made extensive photographs of the Ludwigshafen home...
...impacted messages and manned, much of the time, by desperate operators; among the shouts and static and discontinuous sentences there is a certain visionary urgency-a belief that art could act directly on the world-whose intensity had few parallels in art communities located to the west of the Rhine...