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...lead balloon in the industry, where air fares were fixed by a cartel, the International Air Transport Association; it didn't want to hear about the tourist class. Incredibly, Britain closed its airports to Pan Am flights that had tourist seats. Pan Am was forced to switch to remote Shannon, Ireland. The industry's aversion to competition and making travel affordable was to have a long life, as Sir Freddie Laker would discover in the 1970s and Virgin Atlantic nearly a decade later...
...plan to become more involved in the activities and function of WISHR and make sure that the organization's message is heard on campus," Secretary Shannon M. Nestor '01 wrote in an e-mail...
...decided yet. After getting a 60-day extension of her latest deadline for appointing an independent counsel -- this time for a perjury investigation into former top White House aide Harold Ickes -- the interpretation game is on. The most likely reason is simple indecision, but TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon says if politics did come into Reno's calculation, the specter of creating another Ken Starr might be enough to keep this investigation out of the IC's office...
WASHINGTON: Justice officials investigating the Clinton/Gore '96 reelection drive -- and the possible misuse of soft money for issue advocacy ads -- are finding Bill Clinton a voluble target. TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon says that Clinton's guilt or innocence still depends largely on intent, and that means Clinton's best tack is cooperation early and often -- starting with a nonconfrontational interview Monday with Reno's investigators...
...Clinton obviously wants to avoid another independent counsel -- if he were to evade interviews, he'd just be increasing the likelihood that Reno would appoint one." And how great is that likelihood? With a month still left on the 90-day clock Reno started on September 8, Shannon says even the attorney general doesn't know yet. "She has a history of going down to the wire." But with Republican appetites for scandal considerably curbed of late, Clinton knows that this time around, with these investigators, ignorance of the law could well be all the excuse he needs...