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...last hope of surviving Chapter 11 proceedings. Last week TWA laid off 1,360 of its 6,800 flight attendants and about 100 of its 3,300 pilots. Companies are even curbing travel to innocuous U.S. destinations. Said a Manhattan businessman: "I wouldn't even fly to Kansas or Fort Worth right now. I simply don't believe in taking unnecessary risks...
Both companies began carrying out previously announced contingency plans to lay off large numbers of workers. McDonnell Aircraft Co. started to hand out pink slips to some 5,000 workers, mostly in St. Louis, while General Dynamics targeted 4,000 employees for dismissal in Fort Worth and Tulsa...
...extensively on the conflict in Lebanon, is in Syria, while stringer Aileen Keating is on duty at the important listening post of Bahrain. The four-member Jerusalem staff is on full alert. Washington's David Aikman, who has been monitoring diplomatic angles in several nations, will be holding the fort in Cairo. His Washington colleague Dick Thompson and photographers Dennis Brack and Kenneth Jarecke are relying on telephone beepers, awaiting the any-moment summons to a C-141 military press plane bound for a gulf...
...Massachusetts' largest military installation, Fort Devens in Ayer, many relatives of soldiers called on the base's family support center...
...lack of information is making people nervous," said Lt. Col. William R. Mark, a chaplain at Fort Devens. "People have to be brave and patient...