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This lethal snafu is likely to aggravate charges that the Air Force has tended to distort and cover up information in its investigation of the incident as well as other accidents involving military aircraft. Senior Army pilots flying in Iraq on the day of the shoot-down discovered the coding glitch after they were called as expert witnesses at the court-martial of Air Force Captain Jim Wang. A top officer aboard the AWACS reconnaissance plane coordinating U.S. aircraft in the region, Wang was cleared last week of all charges in connection with the shoot-down. As the Army pilots...
...walks away from the Kelley article with the strong sense that Waco was not a minor federal snafu, but a watershed in American religious and political history. One walks away also with the beginning of an understanding of why the Oklahoma bombers conceived of their sinister plan in the first place. The heavily armed militias that are becoming ever more popular in this country do not simply fashion a delusional vision of the abuses of federal power. Waco proves that their seemingly outlandish claims are not entirely without grounding...
Barring any last-minute snafu, the Republican Party will hold its 1996 convention in San Diego. The GOP national committee's site selection panel issued the decision today, authorizing negotiations with city officials to work out any kinks in staging the Aug. 12-15 event there. Even though nothing's final, the full Republican National Committee's vote is considered a formality because the Southern California city has RNC chairman Haley Barbour's enthusiastic backing. Gov. Pete Wilson, the state's top official and a potential presidential candidate, was a popular San Diego mayor.Post your opinion on theElection '94bulletin board...
...that the size of the self-rule enclave around Jericho would be open to revision, not cemented at the 25-sq.-mi. area drawn on the maps. With that promise, the deal was sealed. But the public theatrics underscored how tentative is each step toward Israeli-Palestinian coexistence. The snafu in Cairo was only "the tip of the iceberg of problems that we shall have to overcome," said Rabin...
Diane McAdams, a marketing official at Philip Morris, said the dividend check snafu was likely the result of a clerical error on the company's part...