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...President was briefed by the CIA on the possibility that al-Qaeda, the terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden, might use hijacked airliners to win concessions from the U.S. Sources tell TIME that the briefing, which was first reported by CBS News, was in response to a request by Bush for detailed information on the kind of threat posed by al-Qaeda, not to American interests overseas--which had long preoccupied the spooks--but at home. During the period in which the brief was prepared, says a senior intelligence official, the CIA came to the conclusion that "al-Qaeda...
...defense against terrorism are the country's borders and shores. But the U.S.'s perimeter is long and porous. The government still lacks a system for determining whether immigrants who enter legally overstay their visas, as two 9/11 hijackers did. The Immigration and Naturalization Service's new budget request includes money to hire 570 more border-patrol agents by next year, but experts think the U.S. needs to add at least twice that number. The border-security act that Bush signed last week aims to modernize the country's system of tracking those who want to enter the country...
...describe it now is chaos. Multiple breakdowns and last week's revelation that controllers are struggling to read the tiny text on their monitors have stoked public concern. As passengers fret about safety, NATS claims to need $363 million more funding. But Britain's Civil Aviation Authority rejected a request to raise airline fees by 5%, noting that NATS' costs were already 40% more expensive than some European rivals'. But the rest of Europe can't gloat. Fragmented and underfunded, its networks are ailing too. And if Italy's airport-crippling walkouts are an indicator, European controllers are gearing...
...response to calls for a supplement to the 2002 Harvard yearbook by several black and Latino student organizations omitted from the current book, the executive board of Harvard Yearbook Publications (HYP) issued a statement early this morning denying the request...
...request for the supplement was stated in a letter sent by 12 student groups to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 on Wednesday. The groups noted that this year’s yearbook contained a complete absence of group pictures and rosters from black and Latino student organizations...