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...giving its best customers PriorityAAccess privileges. First-class, business-class and other full-fare ticket-holders, along with AAdvantage frequent flier members, qualify for priority check-in. At select airports (Dallas-Ft. Worth, Chicago O'Hare, Miami International, Los Angeles, New York City's JFK and La Guardia, St. Louis, San Francisco, Boston, San Juan and Puerto Rico) they'll also have access to designated priority lanes through security...
...military weight in the group," said Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba at a press conference on Wednesday. As a leader of the political wing of ETA, Lopez is believed to have ordered recent attacks, such as the May 14 car bomb that killed a member of the Guardia Civil. He was one of the negotiators at 2006 peace talks between ETA and the Spanish government, though his rigid stance may have contributed to their failure; he has also been cited by police sources as having ordered the December 30, 2006 bombing at Madrid's airport, which killed...
...resident here for the past 15 years, it's hard to digest the speed and size of the changes wrought in Spain since Franco died. When I first visited in the late 1960s, driving around in a 1959 Hillman Husky shipped on the Southampton-Bilbao ferry, the tricornio-hatted Guardia Civil scared the churros out of me and my friends. Now, the Guardia address citizens as sir or madam, women have been admitted to active service ? and either sex can opt for the surgery Leonor won't need. For example, Alba Romero of Jaén, a serving Guardia Civil...
...Europe." The Americans are right. Europe is like an old man: totally lacking the strength to tackle the challenges of the new millennium. Albert Brenner Bad Voeslau, Austria London's mayor Ken Livingstone solves problems with brio in the energetic spirit of New York City's legendary Fiorello La Guardia. Livingstone deals with the problems of cars, buses and the underground with pragmatism and technocratic efficiency, using American-style executive authority. Londoners have warmed to his common sense. Martin Grey High Wycombe, England It was rather sad that your story on London's Livingstone suggested that the congestion charge...
...races for mayor, the Incumbency Party captured the majority nearly everywhere. New York City's flamboyant Ed Koch joined Fiorello La Guardia (1934-45) and Robert Wagner (1954-65) as the Big Apple's only other three-term mayor in this century. Detroit's Coleman Young was re-elected to his fourth term and Cleveland's Republican Mayor George Voinovich was returned for his third term in a predominantly Democratic town. All three cities are enjoying economic revivals. Incumbent mayors also won easily in Minneapolis, Seattle, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Hartford...