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Remember the war on drugs? George Bush waving a plastic bag of crack bought across the street from the White House during a nationally televised speech? The Pentagon planning to station an aircraft carrier off the coast of Colombia to monitor suspected drug smugglers? Candidates for political office proffering urine samples and daring their opponents to do the same? The appointment of combative William J. Bennett as the nation's first drug czar, a post from which he would coordinate an all-out assault on a menace that seemed to threaten the very survival...
...miles down the road, he rumbled into what was formerly West Berlin and headed down the fashionable Kurfurstendamm, hitting several cars -- though no people. As the soldier was attempting to return to his garrison, a Soviet sergeant stopped him with a distinctly low-tech ploy: he hopped onto the carrier and threw a blanket over the vehicle's windshield...
...addition to the airline's available cash, ample financing has been provided by the Kuwait Investment Office in London, supplemented by a loan from the Kuwaiti government-in-exile. Other carriers have helped too. In Dublin, Aer Lingus has arranged for Kuwait Airways to patch into its computerized worldwide reservation system. Another problem arose when Iraqi troops confiscated large supplies of Kuwait Airways tickets. The carrier will now use tickets with a new design. The International Air Transport Association is making sure that only tickets issued by Kuwait Airways are honored...
...resumption of transatlantic service is the first step in an ambitious expansion of the carrier's routes. Depending on how things go, they may even be able to resume flights to Baghdad one of these days...
...week later, on the aging Chosonminhang airlines plane into Pyongyang -- the carrier runs only five flights a week, linking the capital to Moscow, Beijing, Khabarovsk and Sofia -- the Briton was the only sightseer in evidence. Most of the passengers were North Koreans (easily identified by the badge depicting President Kim Il Sung that every North Korean must pin over his heart) and Japanese businessmen, apparently undeterred by the fact that North Korea is the only country that Japanese nationals are not permitted by their government to visit...