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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...
...lunch with Senate Republicans. Confident that his words would leak, he offered a passionate defense, saying that had he known about the plot, he would have "used the whole force and fury of the United States to stop them." By telephone later that afternoon, he okayed Dick Cheney's request to turn up the heat publicly at a fund-raising dinner Thursday night. On Friday, he faced the cameras directly. The clearest evidence that the White House was on war footing came with a statement from the First Lady, which recalled the times Barbara Bush deployed her carefully controlled patrician...
...bypass the legal system and confront school officials directly. In some cities, the N.A.A.C.P. accompanies families to expulsion hearings. Another tactic popular among advocates is to gather a district's discipline statistics--which are collected by the government and can be obtained by filing a Freedom of Information Act request--and prepare self-published reports for local news broadcasts. After enough badgering, some districts have begun to bend their discipline codes. Last fall Chicago public-schools chief Arne Duncan directed principals to stop handing out suspensions for picayune infractions like "gum chewing" and reserve the punishment for violent offenses...
...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...