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...cheap rides for consumers has inspired a dozen airline mergers in which rabble-rousers like People Express have been swallowed up. The six largest carriers, which controlled 76% of the U.S. market in 1978, now have about 81% and are expected to get 90% by 1990. Large combined airlines command so much market share at some airports that the carriers may be tempted to raise prices with virtual impunity. At least three carriers control more than 80% of the business in their main hubs: Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis, TWA in St. Louis and USAir in Pittsburgh...
...hold in a 1981 presidential election that was conducted under martial law and excluded all but token opposition candidates. Even by South Korea's standards of political legitimacy, the former army general was widely regarded as a usurper. In 1980 Chun was among those in the South Korean high command who ordered heavily armed troops to quell a popular uprising in the city of Kwangju, resulting in at least 180 deaths. He has been blamed for, though he was not personally involved in, a series of financial scandals, including several that implicated members of his family. "Because Chun lacked legitimacy...
...charge came from Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera, 49, a cousin of Torrijos who retired two weeks ago as second in command of the Defense Forces. According to Diaz, Noriega conspired with the Central Intelligence Agency and a high-ranking U.S. Army officer to plant a bomb aboard Torrijos' aircraft. Diaz identified the officer as General Wallace Nutting, retired commander of the Panama-based Southern Command, which directs U.S. military operations throughout Central and South America. Both the CIA and Nutting denied the charges...
...this area no lesson is too basic, as recent events proclaim loudly. Commemorating the 40 years since Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line, Los Angeles Dodgers Executive Al Campanis has remarked on how buoyant and fit for command blacks aren't, and he has been fired. Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson have joined forces in the cause of affirmative action, and black Sociologist Harry Edwards has hired on as a consultant. Baseball is publicly standing up to racism. And, one year after George Foster was derided and expelled for bringing up the subject, the World...
...country singer doing crossover," he admits. "Young people started turning their radios to hear Alabama and Kenny Rogers, and they began to hear George Strait and Ricky Skaggs." It is not necessary to press Travis' good country manners by asking his candid opinion of Rogers. The performers who command his respect can be heard in the echoes his music stirs: Strait and Skaggs and, especially, George Jones, and, reaching further back, Bob Wills' Western swing. At concerts Travis will even do tunes associated with Roy Rogers and those harmonizers of early sunrises and dusty trails, the Sons of the Pioneers...