Word: transport
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Experience indicates otherwise. Pan Am Chairman Thomas Plaskett placed advertisements in U.S. newspapers to complain that Pan Am and other U.S. airlines are losing business overseas as travelers switch to the less security-conscious foreign carriers. Richard Lally, vice president for security at the industry's Air Transport Association, said that such rules in the U.S. would have a "disruptive impact on air travel." Yet superscreening may be appropriate when there are specific, credible terrorist threats...
...subways have long been a heaven for panhandlers, who can enjoy a captive clientele of hundreds of passengers when they board a train. (Some riders, after all, are not hardened against being dunned for donations.) Because these discomforting confrontations tend to drive down ridership while increasing panhandlership, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last year decided to enforce rules that ban begging underground as well as in other public-transport facilities...
...Scale back the huge $240 million buy of C-17 transport planes, designed for rapid reinforcement in Europe, from 210 to 120. The longer warning time required for a Warsaw Pact attack, Cheney said, will permit more U.S. resupply by ship. Cheney also argued that the big C-17 can land on the shorter runways of Third World airports. But the C-17, though arguably necessary against the Warsaw Pact, is too much airplane for Third World tasks, and any successor should be more like the reliable C-141s still flying...
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK. Manufacturers of four of the Pentagon's most controversial projects -- the B-2 Stealth bomber, the F-15E and F-14D fighter planes, and the V-22 transport aircraft -- are using tax dollars to persuade Congress not to cut their programs. The manufacturers are allowed to deduct $1.4 million spent advertising the merits of their products. The Pentagon tried last year to kill the F-14D and the V-22, but Congress restored funding...
...week Washington, to which the European powers are looking to calibrate their own reactions, confined the punitive steps it threatened against Moscow to commercial matters. Among the deals under negotiation that might be suspended are a trade agreement that would grant the Soviets most- favored-nation status, a maritime transport pact, and an investment treaty. The U.S. and its allies could also block Moscow's entry into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the International Monetary Fund and other international bodies, and restrict Soviet access to funds from the nascent European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a consortium...