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...went through that ordeal with Carter were grateful he was President, because he and Rosalyn Carter showed the hostages and their families enormous compassion. The second is that in the week prior to the dedication of the multimillion-dollar Reagan Building and the renaming of Washington National Airport, it was barely noted in the press that Secretary of the Navy John Dalton held a ceremony naming the latest nuclear submarine the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter. As Dalton so aptly put it, Carter is like a submarine in that he runs "silent but deep." It's a pity that many...
PARIS: France's roundup of suspected Islamic terrorists two weeks ago hasn't stopped the World Cup from being taken hostage -- by the country's own workers. With the crippling Air France pilots' strike in Day 5 and Paris subway and train drivers walking off the job along with airport baggage handlers and mechanics and employees in the electrical, gas, hotel and retail industries, the event could turn into a nightmare for fans...
...Bayuni, managing editor of the Jakarta Post newspaper. "Now it is revenge time." It was the very symbols of the country's new wealth that became the targets of last week's rioting: shopping malls were looted and torched, car dealerships were destroyed, the new toll road from the airport was commandeered by lawless mobs who threatened to set fire to cars that did not hand over cash on demand. "I have never done anything like this before," said Sali, a 27-year-old man who had just taken a television from an electronics store in Jakarta's Tanah Abang...
...that, overall, Asians are staying home more these days--most dramatically in battered nations like South Korea, where it's considered unpatriotic to spend money outside the country. Last December, Korean airline companies, at the urging of the national tourism association, staged a demonstration at Seoul's Kimpo International Airport asking passengers not to fly abroad. Even in Singapore, where the number of inbound business visitors increased nearly 9% in 1997, business-oriented hotel-occupancy rates have dropped, and the city-state's premier Suntec convention center is experiencing 15% to 18% fewer visitors and exhibitors than previously. "People...
...airport waiting area. Jerry speaks to Elaine...