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Reservists propelled into duty
ATLANTA — Navy reservist Tom Benefield knows this much: On Monday, he will go on active duty, leaving his job as a pilot for AirTran Airways to help plot military strategy at a command center.
Associated Press Writer
He doesn't know where he is going or how long he will be gone. And with airlines crippled financially in the wake of the terrorist attacks, Benefield cannot be certain his job even will be there when he gets back.
Fortunately, there are good laws that protect my job — as long as the airline's here when I get back," Benefield said. "It's always a possibility that it won't be."
It's a dilemma faced by thousands of pilots in the United States who are also reservists. Major airlines say 15 percent to 20 percent of their pilots are in the reserves.
Typically, the demands are light — taking several days of leave each month to devote to the military. Now the circumstances are extraordinary. Military planners are preparing call-up orders for 35,000 reservists, and U.S. officials are talking of a long, difficult war.
At the same time, airlines are warning they are in grave danger of bankruptcy because of a fear of flying among many people, the restrictions on air travel last week, and the higher costs associated with tighter security. Already, major airlines have cut back their flight schedules and laid off tens of thousands of employees.
Assuming AirTran can hold on. Benefield figures his job is safe, even if the Navy needs him for a long time, because he has built up considerable seniority in seven years at the airline, formerly called ValuJet. Younger pilots at the discount airline are not so sure, he said.
Many in NYC want to keep mayor
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Some New Yorkers have been so impressed by Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's resolute leadership since the World Trade Center attack that they don't want to pick a new mayor at all.
They have suggested delaying the election to keep the outgoing mayor in City Hall for the recovery effort. And Giuliani, whose last day in office is Dec. 31, has not ruled out the possibility
The primaries had been scheduled for Sept. 11, but less than three hours after the polls opened, two hijacked airliners topped the Trade Center towers, profoundly changing the issues and the tenor of the campaign.
The primaries have been rescheduled for Tuesday. The mayoral election is November 6.
Publicly, the candidates say they have lost some of their appetite to campaign in a time of widespread grief. Since the attack, they have given blood, visited hospitals and talked with firefighters, but said little about the election.
Republican political consultant Jay Severin said that in addition to rebuilding the city, the election's major issue could be crime, which voters are likely to link to their sense of security. If so,
"I think this could mean that the candidates will try to become more Rudy-like, or at least try not to be too unlike Rudy."
Jay Severin
Republican political consultant
Giuliani — who made crime-fighting a priority, and presided over a record drop in crime — could be even more influential in the race.
"I think this could mean that the candidates will try to become more Rudy-like, or at least try not to be too unlike Rudy." Severin said.
Polls before the Sept. 11 attack showed that Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer and Public Advocate Mark Green tied among the Democratic candidates, with City Council speaker Peter Vallone and Comptroller Alan Hevesi trailing behind. On the GOP side, polls showed billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg with a commanding lead over Herman Badillo, a former congressman.
Border closed to Afghans trying to flee
The Associated Press
At one point, Pakistani border guards beat them back with sticks as they tried to surge through the 10-foot-tall gate when it opened for a few minutes to let an ambulance, siren blaring, pass through.
CHAMAN, Pakistan — More than 1,000 Afghan refugees fearing an imminent U.S. attack pounded on a giant steel border gate separating them from Pakistan yesterday, but were turned away.
The refugee crisis on Pakistan's southwestern frontier with Afghanistan worsened after Pakistan virtually shut down the border on Monday at the United States' request. Pakistan already is host to 2 million Afghan refugees, most of them living in squall camps.
Many refugees had fled their homes in Kandahar, the headquarters of Afghanistan's Taliban hard-line Islamic rulers, about 42 miles from Chaman.
Kandahar is one of the locations that U.S. forces are expected to target if Taliban refuses to extradite Omana bin Laden, who is accused of mastminding the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings.
The U.N. World Food Program said it has stockpiles of food for refugees in Afghanistan that will only last another three weeks.
An estimated 5.5 million to 6 million needy Afghans in the country are unable to feed themselves.
U. N. officials warned that relief supplies to feed Afghanistan's people, already starving after 20 years of war and three years of drought, will not last much longer without international help.
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