Word: piloting
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...Scottsdale, Ariz., National Rifle Association President Joe Foss knows exactly where he stands on the question of gun control. A highly decorated World War II fighter pilot, a former Governor of South Dakota, first commissioner of the American Football League, and a retired brigadier general, Foss speaks with the relish of a man with unyielding convictions. "I say all guns are good guns," he pronounces. "There are no bad guns. I say the whole nation should be an armed nation. Period...
Fifteen other Panamanians, Colombians and Americans are named in the indictment. Four are in custody (another is out on bail), including two Panamanians -- Lieut. Colonel Luis del Cid and Daniel Miranda, a Noriega pilot -- who were captured by American troops during the invasion and brought to the U.S. Prosecutors will probably offer to reduce or dismiss charges against Del Cid and Miranda if they agree to testify against their former chief...
...unrelenting hostility to Cuba, Nicaragua and Viet Nam, the Bush Administration gives the impression of flying on an automatic pilot that was programmed back in the days when the Soviet Union was still in the business of exporting revolution. Fidel Castro, the Sandinistas and the rulers in Hanoi are all, in varying ways and to varying degrees, disagreeable characters. But so are plenty of other leaders with whom the U.S. deals. The U.S. might be able to cope with these particular bad actors more effectively if it stopped treating them as Soviet clones. That very notion has lost its meaning...