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...noon yesterday, three C-140 transport planes unloaded about 150 soldiers from Fort Bragg and four-wheel drive vans for 60 FBI agents and 50 federal marshals who also arrived yesterday...
Government rules allow airlines the right to refuse transport to passengers whom they deemed to be "offensive." The allegedly malodorous pair were placed on a later flight, but Freeman is crying foul. She claims that USAir simply wanted to clear two seats on an overbooked plane, and has demanded an apology from the company's president plus the cost of two first-class tickets from New York to Los Angeles for the embarrassing episode. Says she: "On the next flight, I asked a woman if we smelled, and she said...
...commercial airliners being maintained properly? A barrage of questions about passenger-jet safety were raised last week in the midst of the busy summer travel season. The Air Transport Association, an industry trade group, reported that U.S. carriers are facing a serious shortage of mechanics even as demand for them is growing. Meanwhile, as if to point up the understaffing in the hangars, several airlines were forced to abort flights because of mechanical problems...
...corruption case unfolded with suspicious speed. Ochoa and six other military and Interior Ministry officials were arrested in early June. Ten days later, the Communist Party daily Granma gave a stunningly detailed account, , accusing the seven men of pocketing $3.4 million for helping Colombia's infamous Medellin cartel transport six tons of cocaine to Florida. By the time Ochoa's hearing was convened two weeks later with all the haste and splash of the ongoing scapegoat trials in China, it was a foregone conclusion that this popular and much decorated military officer would be found guilty. Ochoa's court-martial...
...American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, but the bill is being footed by Game Coin, a group of hunters. Rescuing rhinos costs big money: Game Coin has already invested $300,000 in the rhinos at Bentsen's ranch, and will spend more than that to capture and transport the Zimbabwe rhinos...