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After plodding takeoff, Denver airport glides
First national airport is built after21 years
The Associated Press
DENVER — After 16 months of delays and cost overruns, Denver International Airport officially greeted its first passengers yesterday, making it the nation's first new big-city airport in 21 years.
It also demonstrated it can land three planes at the same time.
As a snow dawn broke over the prairie, United Airlines Flight 1062 left for Kansas City with its 300 passengers at 6 a.m. sharp to open the airport 23 miles northeast of downtown.
The first arriving passenger flight — United Flight 1474 from Colorado Springs with 128 passengers — touched down just a few minutes later. No longer could people joke that DIA stands for "Doesn't Include Airplanes."
"It's an exciting moment for the city." Waylon Wellington Websaid
"Today, the jokes stop. DIA is open for business. It is operational," the mayor said.
Webb, Gov. Roy Romer and Transportation Secretary Federico Pena, who as Denver's mayor got the airport project started, were on hand at the balloon-bedecked concourse to greet the first arrivals. They included Elrey Jeppesen, the 88-year-old pioneer aviator for whom DIA's terminal is named. He cut a red ribbon commemorating the first flight's arrival.
"When you think of 12 seconds over Kitty Hawk less than 100 years ago, it kind of gives you a little shocker. ... I think we've got an airport here for a good 50, 100 years," said leppesen, whose first pilot's license was signed by Orville Wright.
The airport recorded another milestone today with the first triple simultaneous landing at any commercial U.S. airport, said Fred Isakson, regional administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Two United planes, a Boeing 757 and a 757, and a Continental Airlines 727 marched down to 7:35 a.m.
And despite only fair visibility during the morning peak, for a time planes were landing at a frequency that averaged to a rate of 92 an hour, Isaac said. At Stapleton, only 32 per hour could have landed because of its runway configuration, he said. "It's only going to get better," Isaac said.
This is form for DIA, its takeoff was a little humpy.
The journey that was to connect the first arriving flight with Concourse B was frozen, so the flight had to be sent to adjacent gate.
And on Monday, when the airport's first paying cargo flight landed, a lawsuit was filed over the city's sale of airport bonds, and fog and trouble with the landing system scraped the first attempt at a simultaneous triple landing.
All that on top of being 16 months late and $3.2 billion over budget.
"We never do things the easy way," Webb said.
Things worked better this morning. In addition to the triple landing, flights were on schedule. And luggage arrived where it was supposed to, both on the conventional system and the long-delayed, high-tech system thus so far serves only United flight.
Denver International Airport, with its distinctive white-peaked roof, is the first major airport to open in the United States since Dallas-Fort Worth in 1974.
it provides 65-year-old Stapleton International Airport, which critics said contributed to air traffic problems nationwide because its runway configuration slowed flights in poor weather. The new 53-square-mile airport can handle heavier air
traffic.
As Stapleton officially shut down Monday night, a conga line of more than 2,000 snowplows, rental cars and tugs crowded toward the new airport at 15 mph, carting everything from furniture to kitchenware. Crews painted big white X's on the old runways so pilots wouldn't land there by mistake.
Scores of people lined up outside the airport post office to buy envelopes commemorating opening day.
"It's a sentimental week, but we're ready to make it out there and tomorrow we'll make it happen at DIA," skycap Carleton Cornish said as he loaded stacks of plastic tubs to be hauled away.
Construction continued on the eve of the opening, with workers rushing to finish at least one restaurant and a smoking lounge. Other workers polished railings, banisters and columns and washed hundreds of windows.
About 75,000 travelers were expected at the $4.9 billion airport today. Daily traffic of about 1,300 flights and 88,000 travelers will make it, like Stapleton, the sixth-busiest airport in the nation.
The opening — originally set for October 1993 — had been delayed four times because of construction problems, including an automated baggage system that chewed up luggage and spit it out. The baggage system was eventually replaced by an old-fashioned tug-and-cart system at all airlines except United.
About a dozen investigations are under way into allegations of wrongdoing in the airport project, including shoddy construction.
And the bondholders lawsuit filed Monday claims officials concealed problems with the project. The class-action lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for investors, whose bonds lost value because of delays and cost overruns. Deputy City Attorney George Cerrone had no comment.
THE NEWS in brief
TOKYO
Japanese lawmakers approve relief budget for Kobe earthquake
The bill brought total spending for the fiscal year, which ends March 31, to $757 billion.
Japanese lawmakers approved a supplemental budget yesterday that earmarks $10.5 billion for relief and reconstruction efforts in the earthquake-ravaged city of Kobe.
The budget bill also includes tax cuts worth $6.2 billion for individuals and companies affected by the quake.
The extra spending includes $6.8 billion for public works reconstruction projects and $1.45 billion for relief centers, temporary housing and aid to those who lost relatives. The Jan. 17 quake killed more than 5,400 people.
The upper house also gave final approval to five bills related to quake relief efforts, including issuing more government bonds to finance reconstruction and hiring those who lost their jobs because of the quake for public works projects.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
Butcher suspect in stabbing incident
A 21-year-old butcher is accused of stabbing his future father-in-law to death after an argument about when to remove pasta from boiling water.
Sergio Noir was asked to leave the table during Sunday lunch after telling his fiancee's mother she ruined a pasta dish by letting it boil too long, the Clam newspaper reported yesterday.
Things escalated from there. The father didn't slapped his daughter — Noir's fiancée — and refused to let her leave the house with Noir. At that point she eranged young man stabbed the father to death, police said.
Police found the knife in a nearby field. Noir was taken into custody last Wednesday, the newspaper reported.
NEW ORLEANS
Weather rains on celebrators' trade
Skimpy feathered and beaded costumes gave way to plastic ponchos and slickers as New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebration turned into a huge, sloppy party in the rain.
Intermittent, driving rain flooded streets, drenched floats and parade-goers and pushed hard-driving Bourbon Street revelers indoors or under awnings and balconies.
"The only bad thing is it waters down my beer," said Edmund R. 38, of Chicago.
Hotel and bar employees in the French hotel show
eled plastic cups and other debris from clogged drains to help empty shin-deen water from the narrow streets
An estimated 300,000 tourists were in town. The rain appeared to have kept the crowds well below the projected 1.2 million.
"This isn't bad. In fact, it's good," said Connie Smith, a Harvey, La., teacher clad in a skimpy harem outfit. "It clears out the lightweights."
Mayor Marc Morial, dressed as a Western sheriff, watched parades from a reviewing stand. "I wish we could arrest the weatherman," he joked.
"I spent $3,000 on my costume," cried Ricki Marino. "It's white satin, white feathers and white tulle. I couldn't possible wear it in this stuff. I'm crushed. What's Mardi Gras without fantasy?"
The deluge drove many participants from the Bourbon Street Awards pageant, an annual French Quarter costume show featuring cross-dressers in elaborate headdresses and flowing capes.
Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, falls on the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of 40 days of Lenten sobriety in this heavily Roman Catholic city. It wraps up 11 days of bawdy Carnival parties and parades.
Parade-watchers on French Quarter balconies threw beads to people below, whose exposed themselves in exchange for the cheap plastic necklaces.
"I think I should get extra to pull up my blouse in this stuff" said Ada Langford. 31 of Boston
Tuesday's storms came after a beautiful weekend of mostly dry, mild and sunny weather.
The clinic at the Cathedral Professional Building was hit shortly before 6:30 a.m., said San Francisco Fire Department arson investigator Marshall Granger. It was unoccupied at the time and no one was injured.
It appeared someone pushed a tire with flammable liquid through a clinic window and ignited it, investigators said. The same method was used in the first two attacks, federal investigators said.
An abortion clinic was slightly damaged in an early morning arson fire yesterday, the fifth such attack in California this month.
Abortion clinic violence continues
SAN FRANCISCO
Mayor Frank Jordan visited the scene and condemned the violence.
The string of fires began in a Ventura County family planning clinic on Feb. 9 and have moved up the coast. Three days later, arsonists hit a Santa Barbara doctor's office.
"This kind of activity is totally unacceptable and something we will not tolerate in San Francisco," Jordan said.
The most serious blaze occurred Feb. 15 when a fire badly damaged the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Luis Obispo.
On Feb. 21, someone threw lighted railroad flares on top of a Santa Cruz County medical clinic where abortions were performed.
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