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...federal investigation into charges that an aide diverted more than $100,000 of union funds last year to Carey's campaign for re-election. To these headaches is added the wrath of millions of Americans who waited in vain last week for strike-bound UPS trucks to transport everything from lobsters to Lands' End T shirts. "I'm mad at the Teamsters Union," says Paula Lambert, founder of the Mozzarella Co. in Dallas, Texas, who has had to scramble for ways to ship her perishable specialty cheeses to restaurants and gourmet shops around the country. Declares Darlene Garalde, owner...
...attract leisure travelers, a strategy that works only when planes are flying full--and their bigger competitors will do anything to make sure that doesn't happen. "It's very hard to make money feeding at the bottom of the barrel," says Perry Flint, executive editor of Air Transport World, a trade paper...
...first city to open for business after Deng launched his economic reforms in 1979, and its vibrant populace threw itself headlong into the pursuit of cold cash. Taking advice and investment from Hong Kong, Guangzhou hustled to become China's third biggest consumer market, second most important transport hub, third best attractor of foreign investment. Today Guangzhou's tycoons worry about competition from Hong Kong, and Beijing worries about the example Guangzhou sets for China...
...stand trial before an international tribunal even before receiving official confirmation of his capture. The United States has already asked Canada to request the extradition of Pol Pot under a Canadian law against genocide, The New York Times reported today, and has offered to provide a military escort to transport Pol Pot out of Cambodia. Under the plan, which Canada has yet to accept, the 69-year-old guerrilla leader would be held in Canada until a United Nations tribunal, similar to the one investigating Bosnian war crimes, could try him for international crimes against humanity. While Cambodia's coalition...
...thriller about a mutiny of convicted murderers aboard a transport plane, Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a bad-luck good guy on his way home from serving eight years in San Quentin on a bum rap. Cage's body is buffed enough for a macho role, but the Academy Award-winning actor seems a stretch as an action star. With his stubbly beard and stringy hair, he looks like either Jesus with a grudge or the guy who stares at kids from the other side of a schoolyard fence. Then, an hour into the film, Poe finds a villain rifling...