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Senate majority leader Tom Daschle says that Argenbright should be "fired across the board" and that the Phoenix, Ariz., airport is in the process of kicking out the company. Yet last Friday Argenbright began screening passengers at Southwest and United terminals in Baltimore, Md. A Southwest spokeswoman says the airline decided to hire Argenbright more than a month ago. One major reason: it was the only company that agreed to boost staffing high enough to keep lines short...
...begun detouring around some bridges, the latest round of terrorist-attack warnings--from Washington's vague bulletin to California's detailed advisory--left many people feeling quite the opposite: confused, afraid and in some cases downright angry. "We're drinking all the coffee we can," Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said with a large dose of black humor. "How alert...
...spokeswoman at the Peacock network told reporters, "Given that the White House did not request time on the network, we thought it was sufficient to cover the event on our cable networks." (CNBC and MSNBC will both broadcast the speech.) At CBS, there was some doubt as to the newsworthiness of the President's address. "Based upon what we've been told about the content, we feel that it's appropriate to cover it as a news event in our news coverage as opposed to live programming," a CBS spokeswoman told the Associated Press Thursday. For its part, ABC decided...
...this week a U.S. Defense Department spokeswoman acknowledged that several bombs had gone astray, hitting an old people?s home and residential areas of Kabul. According to the Taliban, 100 people died in the raids. Still the forces ranged against Osama bin Laden were no nearer to finding the elusive terrorist leader. Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted in a newspaper interview, "I have always thought it unlikely that he will turn up in a court one day." U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld conceded that it was proving "very difficult" to find bin Laden and that the Taliban were...
...means that 450 or more may have gone astray, regularly nailing civilian structures and residential neighborhoods. The military has struggled to explain some of its mistakes. Rumsfeld flatly denied a Taliban report that a U.S. warhead landed on a hospital in Herat. But the next day he sent his spokeswoman out to concede that "it is possible" a 1,000-lb. bomb from a U.S. F-18 accidentally damaged the hospital. The U.S. has also acknowledged dropping two 500-pounders in a residential area north of Kabul. On Friday American warplanes blitzing Kabul successfully leveled a target selected by Pentagon...