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...delays stacked up last month, the FAA issued a stern warning to the airlines: either voluntarily reschedule flights at the six most congested airports (Atlanta's Hartsfield, the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark, Chicago-O'Hare and Denver's Stapleton) or the FAA would do it for them. A special immunity from antitrust prosecution was granted so that the air carriers could meet. Representatives from about 50 domestic and 15 international carriers last week began a six-day session in Crystal City, Va., outside Washington, to work out new flight schedules...
...spur faster action, the Federal Aviation Administration said last week it was preparing to dictate takeoff and landing schedules on a minute-by-minute basis at the airports that account for 76% of the delays-New York City's Kennedy and La Guardia, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Newark. In Denver, for example, there are 58 scheduled landings between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., although the airport's maximum is 30. The Government threat infuriated some carriers, which place much of the blame on shortages of fully qualified air-traffic controllers. One FAA official likened the airlines...
Local Issues. She has helped New York City get federal funds to provide security at the United Nations, as well as more federal help for mass transit. She urged that federal airport funds be spent to alleviate street-traffic problems near airports, with La Guardia's impact on her Queens neighborhood in mind...
...legitimate Soviet worries, however, Ueberroth and Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Spanish diplomat who heads the International Olympic Committee, flew from the Manhattan torch-carrying ceremony to Washington for a prearranged meeting with Ronald Reagan. It was already too late: even as they waited at New York City's La Guardia Airport for their chartered jet, they got the first indication of an actual Soviet pullout, news that was confirmed when they reached Washington. Nonetheless, they received from the President a letter pledging strict U.S. adherence to Olympic ideals. Reagan states in his letter to Samaranch: "I have instructed agencies...
Fear of legal reprisal has apparently led some hospitals to conceal decisions on life support so that no one can be held responsible for deciding to pull the plug. A New York grand-jury report last month charged administrators at a Queens hospital, widely recognized as La Guardia, with "shocking procedural abuses" in the care of elderly patients. According to New York State Prosecutor Edward Kuriansky, the hospital would put purple decals on the charts of patients who were not to be resuscitated should they start to fail. After death, the charts were destroyed so that there was no record...