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Discount airlines are still the most potent force in challenging the high fares in the majors' "fortress hubs." Before ValuJet resumed service between Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth in April, a round-trip ticket cost $490; subsequently, the price dropped to $138. Flying into an "alternative city" served by many discount carriers can also shave dollars. A round trip between San Diego, Calif., and Washington costs $564, but flying into Baltimore, Md., instead, a route now covered by Southwest, costs $268. "The low-cost carriers are driving the big guys crazy in cities where there was no competition," says Parsons...
...with an adapted copy of "American Gothic"), who claims that an alien's wearning her husband Edgar's skin, turns out to be key and makes for a hoot of an interview with Jones and Smith. From a cheap postcard, the Bug tracks down the flying saucers as his ticket off the planet. And of course, the requisite Elvis joke...
...fire on commuters outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., killing two CIA employees and wounding three other people. Kansi, whose prints were allegedly found on the spent shell casings, was identified as the prime suspect. However, the day after the shooting, he left the U.S. on a one-way ticket to Karachi. Soon he made his way to Quetta, Pakistan, capital of the province of Baluchistan, an area in which Kansi's Pashtun tribal clan has long exercised great political influence. Allegedly aided by family, friends and sympathizers, Kansi was initially hard to trace, and opportunities to apprehend him were...
...easy it is to get private information about people from the Internet [TECHNOLOGY, June 2]. I know dozens of people, myself included, who have struggled through the maze of the Web for endless hours and have rarely come up with even harmless information (i.e., news in Mandarin or airline-ticket prices to L.A.). Thanks to your step-by-step instructive article on how to get information, however, that should all change...at least for would-be snoopers! JANA MCBURNEY-LIN Singapore...
...time, but now it's pretty much dead. Two weeks ago, he asked the Federal Election Commission to ban soft money by regulation, a request most reformers regarded as only a gesture. The Justice Department is now eyeing some pending cases from the Midwest, hoping one might be the ticket to persuade the court that unbridled spending is so corrosive to democracy that its First Amendment absolutism is outmoded. Court watchers say it's a long shot at best...