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When Henrickson took part in his first alleged cash delivery for Clinton in the early 1980s, the captain at the wheel of the Citation II aircraft was Haskell Blake, Henrickson says. "((Blake)) showed me the envelope outside the airplane," maintains Henrickson. "We held it up to the light." But Blake, now an Indianapolis-based pilot, recalls nothing of the sort; "I like Joe, but I don't know where he came up with that," says...
...major headache could be winter weather. Narrow mountain roads are choked with snow. Foul weather would blind many of NATO's frontline aircraft, taking away NATO's technological superiority. Everything will be complicated by the cold. Troops will have to be clad in "overwhites" for camouflage and will need more food, more unfrozen water, more heating fuel. Miles of white netting will be required to shroud olive-drab military gear. Snow fouls weapons, and cold air produces large clouds of condensation when the weapons are fired, making it easy to pinpoint the shooter. Helicopter rotor blades whip up mini- blizzards...
...thick of the holiday travel season, American Eagle today grounded flights serving Chicago and five other Midwestern cities until Jan. 4. The commuter airline, beleaguered after two fatal crashes in six weeks and facing federal orders raising safety standards for all commuter aircraft, cited pilots' desire for more training in icing conditions. After grounding its entire Chicago-based ATR turboprop fleet Dec. 9 -- the models grounded in icy weather -- American Eagle had recently resumed the service with different planes. (An ATR model was involved in the Oct. 31 crash that killed 68 people in Indiana...
...wake of last night's American Eagle crash in North Carolina -- the second commuter airline crash this fall -- Transportation Secretary Federico Pena today declared that such small aircraft have 100 days to meet the same safety standards imposed on larger planes. "We are very troubled by the number of accidents we've had this year," Pena said after visiting the crash site near Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The rule changes -- which follow last month's warning by the International Airline Passengers Association urging fliers to avoid all flights on planes with under 31 seats -- tighten safety inspections, reduce the number...
Offering comfort to Dole last week, the former British Prime Minister and co-architect of the war against Iraq said, "Did you ever hear of anything so absurd as to go after the runway but not the aircraft? I must say on the whole, my method of tackling aggression was quite a good one." In a Daily Mail commentary excoriating Hurd, defense analyst and Oxford historian Mark Almond concluded, "Whitehall's indignation at American criticism is all the more heated because it masks a bad conscience." His view was echoed in Washington by a similar criticism of Clinton...