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Frequent flyers rarely expect to dine well in the air. But some have found the secrets to survival: fly a foreign carrier, order special meals, or bring your...
Perez, who has long inveighed against his continent's onerous financial burden, had finally found austerity unavoidable. Venezuela owes foreign creditors, largely U.S. commercial banks, about $33 billion. In the 1970s, when the country was awash with petroleum revenues, the government that Perez headed spent lavishly on social-welfare projects and industrial schemes. But as oil prices took a dive in the 1980s, so did the economy, which earned 90% of export revenues from petroleum. Hard-pressed for cash, Venezuela last Dec. 31 suspended payments for 90 days on the bulk of its foreign obligations...
...Tehran, Iran's parliament voted to cut the Islamic Republic's relations with Britain if Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government did not officially denounce Rushdie's novel. Britain responded with a carrot and a stick. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the BBC World Service that Britain understood why Muslims criticized the book and said it was "offensive" for comparing Britain to Nazi Germany. But he emphasized that nothing justified Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's order to kill Rushdie...
...visit to Tehran, meanwhile, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sought to capitalize on the affair, saying "conditions are ripe" for improved Soviet-Iranian ties...
...reputation for decent cuisine does not come cheap: thanks in part to government subsidies, some foreign carriers are able to spend up to five times as much per passenger on food than U.S. airlines do. "Since deregulation," admits Robert Adamak, manager of planning and development for Eastern, "the U.S. airlines are putting on more snacks and perhaps using less expensive products." Among domestic carriers, Alaska Airlines is the most lavish ($7 a passenger), while USAir is the cheapest, at $2.22. Foreign carriers, on the other hand, may spend as much as $15, though the coming of European deregulation...