Frederick, Maryland (CNN) -- The Federal Aviation Administration onFriday told 149 regional airports across the country it would begin closing their air traffic control towers in April, but said it would spare another 40 towers that had been on the chopping block.
Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist and author who helped redefine political reporting in addition to appearing on PBS and teaching journalism at the University of Maryland, died Friday at a Washington-area hospital after suffering a heart attack.
The president himself commented on a personnel matter Friday by interrupting his Easter vacation at Camp David, Maryland, with an unusual public statement in support of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.