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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (15648)	6/5/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

>>I guess the Clintonistas wasted all that champagne on nothing<< Hey! I'm all for the Clintonistas guzzling all the champagne they can muster.....who knows if they get drunk enough we might actually hear a truthful, cogent statement out of that bunch......Heard the Appeals court has set June 29 as the day for oral arguments, same day as Starr requested from Supremes....Well, at least they had the perception of a delay, that ought to count for something.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (15648)	6/5/1998 2:16:00 PM
From: DD™	Respond to of 20981

SLICKSTER ATTEMPTS TO SLIP THE COUNTRY Air Force One Disappears From Radar Filed at 1:46 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Air Force One, carrying President Clinton from Washington to Massachusetts, disappeared twice from an air-traffic control radar over New Jersey today, an aviation official said. The radar glitch involving the president's plane was not believed to be linked to another early-morning computer problem that delayed flights in the New York area. ''At no time was there a safety issue,'' Paul Takemoto, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, said about the Air Force One problem. The presidential plane was headed for Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., when radar contact was lost over Robinsville, N.J., said John Higgins, vice president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. Higgins, who works at the New York air traffic control center in Ronkonkoma on Long Island, said radar contact was lost for 48 seconds at 8:11 a.m. when the president's Boeing 747 was at 27,000 feet. Four minutes later, contact was lost a second time, for 36 seconds about 10 miles south of La Guardia Airport, Higgins said. There was a small private plane in the area at the time, he said, flying in the same direction but climbing at above 30,000 feet. According to Higgins, an air traffic controller tracking Air Force One contacted the president's 747 and told the pilot, ''Radar contact lost. Say your position.'' The pilot immediately radioed the New York Center air control station with the information, Higgins said. The aviation official said he believes the incident with Air Force One is part of an ongoing problem involving a new radar tracking unit at Gibbsboro, N.J. ''We are obviously very concerned about the loss of air traffic control targets. It's not just because Air Force One was involved. This is not an isolated incident,'' Higgins said. In March, the same long-range radar unit in Gibbsboro momentarily lost data about Air Force One. Last October, a Swissair Boeing 747 was forced to make a steep dive over New Jersey after the radar failed to spot a single-engine plane 400 feet away. Controllers said they've been having daily problems with ''data dropouts'' since the new radar unit was put in service in February. Clinton's plane landed in Massachusetts at 8:55 a.m. and he delivered the commencement speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earlier this morning, flights in and out of the region's three main airports -- Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark -- were delayed up to two hours because of a software problem at a different Radar control center -- at Westbury, Long Island. The problem at TRACON, or Terminal Radar Approach Control, was fixed by 7:30 a.m. and traffic was back to normal by 11 a.m. DD