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Village Voice (New York) publishes article analyzing the frightening figures on airplane crashes and near mid-air collisions since President Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 air-traffic controllers to end a 1981 strike, June 10, 1986.This file also contains the story as published in The San Francisco Bay Guardian in the issue for the week of August 6-13, 1986. There is only a slight difference between the two stories. It also includes a two-page supplement from The Sacramento Bee published on March 3, 1985 written by William Kistner of the Center for Investigative Reporting. The headline of the supplement is "Air-traffic controllers nearly swamped, critics claim."

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