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...starter's pistol pirated a Lufthansa jet to J.F.K. Airport, only to be promptly arrested. Last Saturday, a man tentatively identified as an Azeri commandeered a Russian jetliner on a flight from Siberia to St. Petersburg and demanded to be flown to New York. Persuaded to believe that the aircraft did not have enough fuel to cross the Atlantic, the hijacker agreed to stop in Tallinn, Estonia, then Stockholm, Sweden, where he finally surrendered...
...called VOR (visual omni-range) network -- hundreds of cone-shaped navigation beacons scattered across the U.S. Automatic flight-control systems depend on clear VOR signals to land planes safely when visibility is poor. But some of that VOR equipment has been behaving strangely of late, occasionally causing aircraft on autopilot to veer sickeningly out of control...
...crack down on the gadgets, issued an advisory late last week that left it up to the airlines to set their own rules. Delta has already expanded its list of forbidden devices to include video playback machines and CD players. With the arrival of new "fly-by-wire" aircraft, which are heavily computerized and even more vulnerable to interference, passengers may have to go back to reading paperbacks and watching the in-flight movie...
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell delivered the Pentagon's counterstrike Friday. He dismissed the "four air forces" complaint, arguing that the aircraft in each of the services are "different, playing a unique and complementary role." And he dodged the separate question of whether the light infantry divisions of the Army and Marines amount to "two armies." Powell conceded only the "possibility" of cuts in the Army...
...beleaguered top general, whose eventual replacement as Chairman of the JCS is rumored to be Air Force General George ("Lee") Butler, took pains to ease tensions. In a strong hint that he would agree to cutbacks in $350 billion worth of new aircraft now on Pentagon drafting tables, Powell admitted that the U.S. no longer needs so many deep-strike bombers and attack aircraft. Powell's report falls well short of Clinton's hopes for a major restructuring of the military, and will play little role in the defense budget the President sends Congress next month. Before then Clinton...