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...night until two-thirds of the way into the debate. Then, however, like Old Faithful, it was unstoppable. About once every two minutes, Bob Dole announced to the world that Bill Clinton was a big government, wild-eyed "liberal." The Bill Clinton who signed a welfare reform law more stringent than Ronald Reagan ever considered. The Bill Clinton who cut the size of the federal government to its lowest level since the Kennedy Administration. The Bill Clinton who lowered the deficit for four consecutive years for the first time since 1844. If you believe Bill Clinton is a liberal...
Rhodes has also developed a less stringent, four-day program for people who already train in an organized physical activity like ROTC or a varsity sport...
Catastrophes like this will continue to happen no matter how stringent the security measures are. Anyone can be the next victim. So just pray before takeoff and touchdown that everyone reaches his or her destination safely. That's all we people can do. ARSHAD ALTAF Karachi Via E-mail...
...have launched a small missile against the airliner from a vantage point as yet undetected. The stories were cautious, with the ifs loudly iterated and "theory" worn like a reluctant fig leaf. Yet by Friday, there were indications that the Federal Government was weighing a decision to order stringent security directives not before seen in peacetime to all U.S. airlines, which would leave little doubt that the fall of TWA Flight 800 was deliberate terror. If the plane was sabotaged, the disaster becomes America's third milestone on a forced march into a demonic dimension, even as the country...
...legislation required the FAA to speed up explosives-detection research, to heighten security checks on airport personnel and to release passenger manifests within three hours of a crash. The deadline set by Congress: November 1993. The FAA failed to adhere to that timetable, blaming Congress for setting overly stringent standards and requiring complicated tests of the new technologies. But that same year--five full years after Lockerbie--the inspector general's office of the Department of Transportation released a report blasting the FAA's overall security program. It is the only such report that has been made public...