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Air disasters fail to dent travel bookings

Tauranga House of Travel owner/operator Shane Kennedy.

Bay travellers have quit Malaysia Airlines, sought refunds and switched carriers amid fears it will go broke - not over anxiety of flying.

But no one has cancelled trips overseas despite a spate of international air disasters, local travel agents reveal.

Yesterday reports emerged that an Air Algerie jetliner carrying 116 people - nearly half of whom were French - had crashed in a rainstorm in Mali.

It is the latest of three flights which have crashed or been downed in the last week - four since Malaysia Airlines MH370 went missing in March.

Earlier this week, US and European airlines started cancelling flights to Tel Aviv after a rocket landed near the city's airport.

On Wednesday, a Taiwanese plane crashed during a storm, killing 48 people.

About 400 Kiwis gained refunds for upcoming Malaysia Airlines flights, after its latest tragedy when flight MH17 was shot down while flying over war-torn Ukraine last week.

Tauranga House of Travel owner/operator Shane Kennedy said six people from a possible 50 had applied for refunds from Malaysia Airlines and changed carriers because they were concerned about its financial future.

It was not so much "can they get there, it's can they get home," he said.

" ... It is not so much about the anxiety of flying or safety ... some have thousands of dollars worth of tickets tied up."

However, he said those people had to buy new tickets while they waited for the refund and not everyone could afford to do that.

But Kiwis were intrepid travellers, he said, and were not like other nations that "bailed" whenever a disaster happened.

Mondo Travel Tauranga senior consultant Janice McLean said one of its travellers bound for Europe decided to stay with Malaysia Airlines because of the time it would take to get his money back.

"He slept on it and decided to stick with it. He could have been waiting months and it can take a long time especially if a lot of people from around the world are cancelling."

United Travel in the City manager Maree Webb said a small number of its customers had also sought refunds and chosen different carriers due to "uncertainty."

No one had cancelled but this time of the year it was quiet anyway, she said.

Harvey World Travel Bayfair travel consultant Helen Terry said a few clients were nervous about flying but no one had cancelled any flights.

A couple of people had requested not to be on Malaysia Airlines, she said.

Following the MH17 tragedy, Malaysia Airlines offered full refunds for all tickets booked for July 18 to December 31, and many people have chosen not to fly with the carrier.

The cut-off date for refunds was Thursday [July 24] and the Flight Centre's general manager, Simon McKearney, said about 400 people - or 10 per cent of customers booked with the carrier through the travel agency - had changed their flight.

House of Travel's commercial director, Brent Thomas, said about 200 people had requested refunds, but it was a "single-figure percentage" of people who had booked through the agency.

"The vast majority of people are still travelling with the airline at the same time as they originally booked," he said.

Some Malaysia Airlines flight attendants have become jittery following the MH17 tragedy which killed 15 crew. A flight attendant told the New Zealand Herald two crew pulled out of Kuala Lumpur-Auckland flights last weekend.additional reporting New Zealand Herald, AP

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Looking Back: Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 Visit to San Jose

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Senator Robert F. Kennedy 's speech in San Jose's St. James Park on March 23, 1968. Five years ago, I transcribed that speech from an audio recording, which I am sharing here for the first time. I am also pleased to be able to share previously unpublished Spartan Daily photos from Kennedy's visit.

Reading his speech today, one cannot help but wonder what the senator might have to say about the current state of our nation. What would he think of the poverty, of the homelessness, of the mass shootings, of the racial injustice, or of the ongoing erosion of the middle-class? What would he think of the partisan divide in Washington and across the nation?

I would like to dedicate this post to the memory of Senator Kennedy, and to a young Mexican busboy named Juan Romero. Mr. Romero did as much as any of us could have done for our senator as he lay mortally wounded shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968. Senator Kennedy's voice was silenced that day, but his words and his courageous, optimistic spirit remain to inspire and encourage. A fiftieth anniversary celebration of Senator Kennedy's visit has been scheduled for Saturday March 24, 2018 at St. James Park from 2:00 pm until 6:00 pm. The event will include a re-enactment of the speech, activities, and historical tours.

Senator Robert F. Kennedy's Speech in San Jose's St. James Park

March 23, 1968, 8 pm, transcribed from audio posted on www.archive.org by ralph m. pearce with edits by josie amant.

It must not be a, uh, it must not be a matter of simply counting and courting the votes of professional politicians.  If we have learned anything over the period of the last few years, it is that old solutions cannot solve the new problems that are facing this country, that face this state, and face my own state, the state of New York. For we are talking now about putting something together for this whole country, which can and we should differ on solutions, on programs, and on ideas, but we can no longer afford to differ on reality.  We can no longer afford to deceive ourselves.  It is time we face the problems that are -- exist in this country, and exist for us elsewhere around the world, with candor and with truth, and it's on that basis I run for President of the United States [applause].

If there is one overriding reality in this country, it is the danger that we have a erosion of a sense of national decency.  Make no mistake, decency is at the heart of the matter.  Poverty.  Poverty in this country is indecent.  Illiteracy is indecent.  The death or maiming of brave young men in the swamps of Asia -- that is also indecent [applause].

And it is also indecent for a man to work with his back and with his hands in the valleys of California without hope of ever seeing his son enter a university.  That is also indecent.  It is indecent for a man in the streets of New York, in Oakland, in Detroit, in Watts, to surrender the only life that he will ever have to despair.  It is indecent for the best of our young people to be driven to alienation and flight to the terrible exile of drugs and violence, to allow their hearts to wither in rage and with hatred.

This in my judgment, the year 1968, is a time to create, not to destroy.  This is a time to work -- for men to work out with a sense of decency, and not with bitterness.  This is a time to begin again, and that is why I run for President of the United States [applause].  And it is why -- it is why I come here to the state of California to ask for your help.  I cannot win the nomination without the help of the people of California, and I ask for your help [applause].

And I think there are things to be changed in this country.  We have a brave country, a courageous country, and a people who bleed with compassion about the problems of others within our own country and elsewhere around the globe, but we are troubled and this is a disturbing time.  As we stand here today, brave young men are fighting across an ocean.  Here, while the moon shines, men are dying on the other side of the earth. Which of them -- which of them might have written a poem?  Which of them might have cured cancer?  Which of them might have played in a World Series, or given us the gift of laughter from a stage, or helped build a bridge or build a university?  Which of them would have taught a child how to read?  And I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that these men live, and that is why I run for President of the United States [applause].

Our young men, our young people are our greatest natural resource.  These young men in the rice paddies, the young men without jobs in the streets of our cities, the young men scattered across this country, are a most important natural resource for this country, and we must bring them back into American life.  And that is the reason I run for President of the United States [applause].

My friends, there are other tasks before us.  It is a time to begin to rebuild the grand alliance, to repair the bonds of trust and confidence with those historic allies whose friendship has been the basis of our security for so many years.  It is time to recall to ourselves our true responsibilities around the rest of the globe, to recognize that we cannot sit frozen and indifferent while every day ten thousand of our fellow human beings starve elsewhere in the world, that it is a monstrous disproportion that we should buy eight million new cars every year, while most of the world goes without shoes.  I think there are things we can do, and I want to join with you in doing them [applause].

And I think that it is time that we recognize that frequently in the past, we have wealth -- measured our wealth and our progress by the wrong standards.  Air pollution, and cigarette advertising, the destruction of the redwoods and the building of jails, all these increase the Gross National Product, but in my judgment they do not make us richer.  The [applause] -- the health of our children, the quality of their education, the intelligence of our public debate and the integrity of our public officials, these and in other intangible values are not included in the Gross National Product, but they -- they are the truest indicators of wealth and really the only true measure of progress in the United States [applause].

And this is the kind of wealth -- and this is the kind of wealth that I want and I know that all of you want for the United States of America [applause].  There is difficulty and division in our land today, but in the last six days, I have been to Kansas and to Alabama, to Tennessee, and to my own state of New York, and now I have come to California, and I think there is a stirring of something new in the United States. It is not the creation of any candidate or leader, it is nothing that I have made, but it is a sense that there is a possibility of a different future, that the American people are discovering that they control their own destiny, and that they are going to move ahead, that they are going to make this land as they see fit, and not as it is created by others a thousand miles away [applause].

Some of them are young in years, as I see before me here tonight, but all of them are young in spirit.  They are beginning to feel that change is possible, that hope is possible, that by the work of their own hands, and the love of their own hearts, they can restore that fundamental sense of decency for themselves, for each other, and for our posterity, for our children and for the next generation of Americans, and I think that's what we're going to commit ourselves here in the state of California…[ inaudible, applause].

There are still many who feel that their efforts cannot make a difference, but the alienated and the apathetic alike I believe will dwindle in numbers and decline in strength, and, finally, they too will see, as more and more are seeing every day, that we can make a difference.  We can put this country together again and we can turn its course around, and that's why I'm running for President of the United States [applause].  So I come here to ask for your help.  I ask for the help of those who are proud of this country, proud of what we've done, proud of what we've contributed, proud of what we stand for, and I ask for those -- the help of those who are dissatisfied, who are proud of all these things, but yet feel that we could do better, that we're not going to stand for poverty, that we're not going to permit illiteracy, that we're going to find jobs for every young man and every young woman who wants to work, that we're committing ourselves to that [applause].

And I come here tonight to ask for your help for those who feel that we can do better in Southeast Asia and in Vietnam, that those who feel that we don't have to be committed to the course of action that we've been following over the period of the last three and four years.  I think that we can do better.  I don't think that the problem is easy.  I don't think that there's an easy solution, and that this problem is going to disappear, but I think that we can do better, and I don't think it means raising the white flag and just withdrawing, but I think we can do far better than the course we've been following up to the present time [applause].  I think that we can demand of the South Vietnamese that if we're going to send eighteen-year-olds and nineteen-year-olds from here in the United States to fight and die in South Vietnam, we can ask the South Vietnamese to do the same damn thing [applause].

We have two and a half months to go in this primary.  I come here to ask for your help.  This is a difficult campaign.  I need your assistance over the period of the next two and a half months.  With your help, we are going to win the primary in June.  With your help, we are going to win in August at the convention in Chicago.  And with your help, we're going to win the election in November [applause].

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For a first time, authorities have revealed a handwritten apology note by a Northern California man believed to have shot and killed his wife and two young daughters last year. The Redding Record Seachlight reports that in the short note, found in his abandoned pickup in Humboldt County, Shane Miller says he was "sorry." The note will stand as Miller's last will and testament in an upcoming probate proceeding for his estate valued at more than $800,000, according to documents filed in connection with the Shasta County Superior Court probate case. In the note, he leaves his belongings to his other four children. He also wrote that he just wanted "love" and expressed hate for his mother and father. Miller's body was found in August in Humboldt County. It appeared he shot himself.

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