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...think we can now put the jokes behind us," said Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, as Denver International Airport prepared to open Tuesday -- 16 months late, $3.2 billion over budget and with underground carts tugging baggage every which way as most of a computerized system continues to malfunction. At 12:41 a.m. Monday, the first commercial flight (a Federal Express plane) touched down. The jokes started again, though, when a snowstorm developed later in the day, threatening to force the airport to close before the first passenger jet arrives Tuesday at 6 a.m. As for the baggage system, designed to allow...
...John Q. Webb Derry, New Hampshire AOL: JQWebb...
...John Q. Webb Derry, New Hampshire It's too late for Yeltsin to learn any lessons. Before invading Chechnya, he should have remembered the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a peaceful and humanitarian solution in Chechnya now. The Soviet invasion and defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet empire. Similarly, the invasion of Chechnya could eventually unravel the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace and stability in central...
...John Q. Webb Derry, New Hampshire It is incredible that Western leaders could give a free hand to a state in its transition period by accepting Russia's wrongheaded policy. The West is playing the same wrong politics with Yeltsin's Russia as it played with Hitler's Germany before World...
...mission of the Fund, since its establishment in 1979, has been to preserve the "mom-and-pop" feel of the Square and prevent big business takeovers, said panelist Webb Nichols, a local architect...