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...Elohim City "Grandpa" Millar deplores the entire episode, saying it is another opportunity for the media to besmirch Christian Identity. The settlement has been declared off limits to the press. But speaking from the front seat of the Lincoln parked in the rain-drenched gravel of a country-store parking lot near the settlement, Millar says he would welcome Howe back. "It was not unusual for unstable people to seek us out," he says. "The Church of Jesus Christ exists for such people." And so, apparently, does Elohim City. --With reporting by Patrick E. Cole/Tulsa and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...Jewish assets from Switzerland was a chair--or, more precisely, the lack of a chair. On Sept. 12, 1995, Bronfman went with Singer to a meeting in Bern. They wanted to ask the Swiss Bankers Association to investigate the dormant accounts of Holocaust victims. Without offering their visitors a seat, the bankers began to dictate their terms. They proposed turning over $32 million discovered in 774 Jewish accounts since the war and suggested that that would close the matter for good. "I don't think it occurred to them that there was not a chair," recalls Bronfman. "From my viewpoint...
More than money, however, the pilots are upset at what they maintain is AMR's continuing attempt to shift jobs to its lower-cost commuter airlines. At issue is AMR's stated intention to acquire new 50-seat jets to replace existing turboprops on commuter routes flown by its American Eagle subsidiary. Eagle pilots earn one-third the salary of their American counterparts...
...pilots a wide-body 767 on long-haul routes out of Miami. "It is a long-range, high-performance jet that flies at Mach .81 at 40,000 ft., like a 767. It will deprive us of our routes, and it will replace MD80s and F-100s [existing 100-seat-plus jets]. With this jet, Pocatello, Idaho, to Dallas becomes a profitable route...
Inside the theater, Roberts stood up out of her seat to perform an impromptu dance as the Pudding orchestra played "Pretty Woman." Burlinson and Char then delivered the traditional roast of the winner, which began with a promise not to touch on Roberts' well-publicized personal life...