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...East Timor. Timor-Leste. Timor Lorosae. Timor Timur. No wonder the world is confused. My travel agent in Bangkok was baffled, too. When I asked him to book a ticket, his computer gave up and returned only one word: "Error...
...billion, and $1.62 billion for the first three-quarters of the current one, an increase of 31%. Those results have been built on regained passenger confidence, the allure of Paris as an international hub and an increasingly rare commitment to high-quality, free in-flight service, which have boosted ticket sales enough to lift Air France--KLM to the top of Europe's airlines, with a 25% market share. And it might make a run at ailing Alitalia, whose fractious workforce resembles that of Air France in its dark days...
DIED. Thomas Eagleton, 77, wry, straightforward Missouri Democrat whose 18-day stint as vice-presidential candidate on George McGovern's ticket ended with reports that he had been hospitalized several times for depression; in Richmond Heights, Mo. Eagleton, who was then in his first term as a U.S. Senator, returned to Congress, where he sponsored the 1973 amendment halting the bombing in Cambodia and was pivotal in the Senate's passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts...
Seated in his cubicle, flanked by a succulent cactus and a miniature wooden mannequin (today posing as Frankenstein), Pressler says he will stick around for a while, and then perhaps find another hot ticket. "'A while' used to mean 10 years," he says, reflecting on his answer. "It's two to four years in these parts. The pace is accelerated in Silicon Valley...
...Ford in 1973, Ford tossed Nelson Rockefeller and tapped Bob Dole as a running mate in the 1976 campaign, and Bush's father George Herbert Walker Bush let his top aides try to give the heave-ho to Vice President Dan Quayle when he was dragging down the G.O.P. ticket by three or four points...