Three items in one day's paper:
1. "Mickky questions Churchill's action over Mopa airport". A misleading
title actually. The report only shows that one politician is merely
interested in criticizing another (in this case Matanhy Saldanha too) and
not adding a whit to our knowledge about Dabolim/Se
Further to the news about the two runways planned for Mopa, could one of the
reasons be that the Navy would then get to use one of the runways
exclusively? Recently we had seen a vague news report about the CM cozying
up to the Navy over Mopa. The Navy could well be angling to increase its
footpri
Instead of one vague report once in a blue moon in the local paper, today
there are THREE (vague!) reports on aviation. How about that! But because
the dreaded N-word has been studiously avoided, the chronic blindspot about
Goa's aviation persists and enlightenment is marginal.
1. "AAI to spend Rs
1. TIMES OF INDIA July 26, '05.
In "The big squeeze at IGI Airport [Delhi]", the report starts by saying
"Any city hoping to be a world-class capital cannot do without a
state-of-the-art airport". Goa as a citistate which aspires to an
internationally attractive quality of life may want to keep t
