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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Gentlemen Prefer Military Jets
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- Some habits are hard to break. Senators CLAIBORNE PELL and
- DAVID BOREN, the chairmen of the Foreign Relations and
- Intelligence committees, have been traveling through Southeast
- Asia during the Easter-Passover recess on a military C-20B
- (cost: $2,614 an hour), stopping in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia
- and Papua New Guinea (to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the
- Battle of the Coral Sea). Even though commercial flights were
- available, sources say, one of the reasons for going military
- was that wives travel free. Boren argues that the spouses were
- invited by some of the governments to participate in events.
- Says he: "Surely we do not want to get to the point where we
- hinder the chairmen of two of the three committees that have
- oversight of international relations and national security from
- being able to do their jobs."
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