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...photographs over thousands of martyrs' graves. Even his sayings are etched in brass and copper and hung in frames or daubed in paint on the sides of buildings. WHOEVER FIGHTS AGAINST THE TRUTH SHALL BE DEFEATED is one such framed homily, hanging in the baggage hall at Tehran's airport. A short distance away, a blunter sign, painted on the side of a hangar, reads DEATH TO AMERICA...
...carry-on bag. But as he was preparing for the long flight home from Athens last June 14, he found his hand luggage a bit overstuffed and decided instead to stash his 35-mm Canon AE-1 camera in the suitcase he would check through at the airport...
...Welcome to America!" What sounds like the official greeting at a U.S. international airport is in fact the standard hello to customers at one of New York City's newest, largest and most successful café-restaurants, called America. In a larger sense, that greeting is equally appropriate for style-conscious eaters who formerly restricted their gastronomic forays to France, where they devoted vacation times to seeking out the specialties of superstar chefs like Paul Bocuse, Michel Guérard and the Troisgros brothers. Now with equal zeal, many such adventurers are beginning to tour the U.S., eager to sample the highly...
Some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, another disaster was in the making as an EgyptAir Boeing 73.7, en route from Athens to Cairo with approximately 100 people on board, was hijacked last Saturday and forced down at Luqa Airport on Malta. Demanding fuel to continue on to an unspecified destination, the hijackers, who identified themselves as members of a group called Egypt's Revolution, threatened a systematic execution of passengers until the plane was refueled. By Sunday morning, the Maltese government had confirmed the death of one woman, tentatively identified as Nancy Stevens, 20. The death toll was expected...
...drugs. This translates into cars, sophisticated weaponry and access to air travel. Last October four jet-age thieves ranging in age from twelve to 18 flew from Los Angeles to Seattle and robbed a jewelry store of more than $300,000 in gems. One was arrested at Seattle's airport, but the others presumably grabbed a return flight home...