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...fellows, other than Sarwar and Schiller, are Claudia Antunes, deputy Rio de Janeiro bureau chief of Folha de S. Paulo; Zippi N. Brand, a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker in Tel-Aviv, Israel; Kim Cloete, a specialist journalist for the South African Broadcasting Corporation; Taghreed El-Khodary, a freelance print and television journalist in Gaza City, Palestine; Yaping Jiang, executive vice president of the People’s Daily Online in Beijing, China; Mary Ann Jolley, a producer/reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney; Guillermo E. Franco Morales, content manager of new media and editor of eltiempo.com in Bogota...
...remote corner of the airport because, as one spokesman put it, the airline did not want to operate in "a ghetto." Highly visible armed police patrolled El Al check-in areas at Frankfurt, Munich and Paris airports. Passengers on the twice-weekly El Al flight between Tel Aviv and Madrid, which is said to be a likely target for terrorists, were questioned about their reasons for traveling to Israel. At Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport and Britain's Manchester airport, workers staged strikes to demand even stricter security. Some measures have gone unpublicized. Said an Air France official...
Increasingly there is widespread admiration for the airtight airport security in Israel. Although time-consuming precautions breed jokes that El Al stands for "Every Landing, Always Late," the Israeli airline has suffered no hijackings since 1968. Security at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport ranges from piece-by-piece luggage inspection to exhaustive questioning of passengers, who are advised to check in two hours ahead of departure time. On most flights, air marshals with concealed Uzi submachine guns pose as passengers...
...following year he took a job as a driver for Roger Corman, America's master of the cheap and quick. Soon promoted to assistant to the director, he learned everything he needed and then returned home in 1962. Globus, who had gone to business school in Tel Aviv, joined him in 1963 to form Noah Films, which eventually dominated the Israeli film industry. In 1979 they decided to move their base to Mecca, as they call Hollywood, and bought control of the ailing Cannon Group...
...banks' troubles began in the late 1970s, when many Israeli investors started buying bank stocks as a hedge against inflation, which was then surging higher than 100%. The banks encouraged this speculation and helped drive up the stock prices by buying their own shares on the Tel Aviv exchange. By October 1983, bank-stock prices had reached unsustainable levels. When fear of a shekel devaluation led some investors to sell stocks in order to buy U.S. dollars, the value of bank shares plunged by one-half...