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...multiple warheads. They gave their regards to Broadway and Bloomingdale's and proved that all it takes to keep traffic moving in New York is the near imposition of martial law: 6,600 of the city's finest, plus the peacekeeping forces of the U.N., the FBI, the FAA, the KGB, the Secret Service and the Coast Guard. Like tourists in for the holidays, the Soviet Union's First Couple took in all the right places, both high (the World Trade Center's 107th-floor observation deck) and low (Times Square's movie district...
...commuter airline industry, responding to the FAA findings, acknowleged some shortcomings and attributed many of the problems to the industry's rapid growth in recent years...
...FAA said that it found in its inspections some of the airlines failed to fill management positions or filled them with "inexperienced or unqualified people." For example, the agency said, a chief pilot at one airline was not aware of regulations on how much rest pilots should be allowed...
...areas of training, the inspectors found that at times pilots did not complete required competency checks, training records were incomplete or did not exist and testing standards were obsolete, the FAA said...
...airlines inspected were selected at random, according to FAA officials. The FAA provided no breakdown as to what was found at each airline...