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Flight 648 had taken off from Athens at 9:06 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, and headed in a southeasterly direction toward Cairo. On board was a typically multinational mix of passengers, including Egyptians returning home from holidays abroad, Greek merchant seamen bound for Port Said to join their ships, a Filipino dance troupe and a scattering of European, Israeli and American tourists. Captain Galal, a 15-year airline veteran, was assisted by a five-member crew...
While traveling abroad, I found that the approaches to birth control vary from country to country. Family-planning classes at Fudan University in Shanghai are in the department of economics because the need to feed and shelter families has become an acute financial problem for the Chinese. Turkey assigns its birth control clinics to the Department of Labor, believing that a lower birth rate will mean fewer unemployed in future generations. The Egyptian government includes family planning in its Department of Family Health. Jules F. Rosenbaum Houston...
...Chongqing. A hardworking student, Deng followed a curriculum that enabled him at 16 to enter a program providing an opportunity to work and study in France. Despite an anti-Western wave then simmering in China, Deng and many others of his generation jumped at the chance to go abroad. "We felt that China was weak, and we wanted to make it strong," he later told the New York Times. "We thought the way to do it was through modernization. So we went to the West to learn...
...fascinated by the work of economists, from Karl Marx to Milton Friedman. After graduating in mathematics from Xinjiang University in 1976, Tang became the first student in China since the Cultural Revolution to receive a master's degree in econometrics. He passed up a rare chance to study abroad and decided to take a government job. Says he: "I come from a very poor part of China, and I wanted to help my country develop...
...urgency. Shortly after assuming office, Gorbachev declared a crack-down on alcoholism. As if to underscore the contrast with his aged and often invisible predecessors, he traveled widely, exchanging his fedora for a hard hat to inspect factories and showing off his stylish First Lady Raisa abroad. Gorbachev also moved quickly to consolidate his personal power. His principal rival for the top job, Grigori Romanov, suffered the indignity of sudden retirement. After 28 years as Foreign Minister, Gromyko was kicked upstairs, to the largely ceremonial position of President. And last week Viktor Grishin, a longtime associate of Leonid Brezhnev...