Airline survival guide ranks fares and service nationwide
The Consumer Federation of America issues a 203 page guide rating 18 airlines on fares and service across 17 routes and a service index drawn from Transportation Department complaints. Southwest Midway Braniff win low fare honors while Alaska Southwest Delta earn good service. Continental Eastern Northwest Pan American Trans World get very poor ratings.
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Delta
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Northwest
Pan American
Trans World
Stephen Brobeck
Transportation Department
Bill Jackman
Air Transport Association
Federation
16Th St. NW
Washington, D.C
OPEC pact fails to curb oversupply, oil prices fall
Oil markets drop after a six month OPEC agreement to stabilize output. Brent slips to 17.15 and WTI to 17.44 as analysts say the deal will not reduce the global crude glut. Iraq is the lone holdout while Iran and others push for higher prices.
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Fawzi Shakshaki
Stephen Turner
Wood Mackenzie and Co
Edinburgh
Scotland
Persian Gulf
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Cape Cod missile site found after nine hour search
US officials disclosed a Cape Cod research and development launch site in a memo of understanding on missile basing. Pentagon aides initially denied knowledge of the location, then after nine hours confirmed the site as North Truro Air Force Station in Massachusetts.
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Cape Cod
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U.S
Office of Defense
Frank Carlucci
Mass
Maj
Randy Morger
Defense Secretary’s Office
Morger
North Truro Air Force Station
Massachusetts
Britain and France plan joint air-launched missile program
In London Britain and France announced a joint plan to develop an air launched missile despite Soviet objections. They said the weapon would not breach the limit on intermediate range systems and signed a defense pact to share use of the English Channel tunnel due in 1993. Separately in KHAN YUNIS Gaza Gaza Strip violence left a Palestinian dead and many wounded as clashes continued. In East Jerusalem a fire at the U S consulate caused by two homemade bombs caused damage without injuries.
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Arab East Jerusalem
Gorbachev warns Star Wars could harm U S relations
In a Moscow television address Mikhail Gorbachev warned that differences over Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative could jeopardize warming ties. He noted ongoing pressure from certain circles in the United States and Western Europe to curb disarmament and shift nuclear forces toward Europe.
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Reagan
United States
Europe
Widespread Caribbean coral bleaching prompts concern and cautious recovery
Caribbean reefs across brown green and yellow tones are turning white in an Atlantic bleaching event seen as widespread. Over 60 scientists at St. Croix convened to assess the crisis with initial optimism for recovery, while experts warn some reefs may still die and others recover.
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New York
Caribbean
Atlantic Ocean
Ing
St. Croix
U.S. Virgin Islands
Peter Glynn
University of Miami
Glynn
Ernest Williams
University
Puerto Rico
Robert Wicklund
Caribbean Marine Research Center
Lee Stocking Island
Bahamas
Bowen promises guidelines after drug trial subpoena stand
Health secretary Otis Bowen agrees to provide subpoenaed AIDS trial records to a House subcommittee while pledging safeguards to protect patient identity in future research. The move ends a dispute and shifts focus to confidential data amid AIDS concerns.
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Washington
House
Health and Human Services
Otis Bowen
Aunt and uncle win custody of 5 year old in New Jersey
In Bridgeton New Jersey an aunt and uncle gain custody of 5 year old Rachel Rauser nine months after her father Joseph Waltman was arrested at Giants Stadium on charges he tried to sell her for 100000. The former stepmother and the child's grandparents receive extensive visitation rights under judge approved terms.
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N.J
Rachel Rauser
Rachel
Joseph Waltman
Giants Stadium
Deborah
Gary Stern
Sunrise
Fla
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