Word: istanbul
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...shifting its resources to protect its profitable overseas routes and using management employees to do the jobs of striking workers, Pan Am has been able to keep 137 of its 390 daily scheduled flights in operation. Thousands of passengers have been stranded from Istanbul to Rio, however, and others have endured service turbulence as supervisors performed such unfamiliar tasks as sorting baggage and serving meals. When a Manhattan traveler whose flight had been canceled demanded to see the management, his ticket agent growled, "I am the management...
...Swiss authorities claim to have found the trail of the elusive Turk while pursuing a routine heroin investigation. In a secret international arrest warrant issued through Interpol, the international police organization, Swiss magistrates have charged Celik with running a small-time heroin ring between Istanbul and the Swiss city of Basel...
John Paul II was the first Pope to worship at Anglicanism's Canterbury Cathedral, the first to preach in a Lutheran church, and the first in a millennium to attend the Eucharist in Istanbul alongside Orthodoxy's Ecumenical Patriarch. But despite these gestures of friendship, substantive progress toward Christian unity has nearly come to a halt during John Paul II's reign. Last week a front-page editorial in the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, seemed to signal that there is no prospect of structural reunion of the churches so long as this Pope's views prevail...
...sustain such a character for nearly 1,000 pages, Moorcock provides an exotic itinerary, a robust cast of opportunists and scoundrels, and a series of dangerous adventures and sexual escapades. Pyat's first stop on his flight from Bolshevism is Istanbul, a teeming cosmopolis of thieves and whores but also a site idealized as the bastion of a once glorious Christendom. From there, the grotesque innocent moves west through Rome, Paris, New York City and Hollywood...
That was his second trip to Italy in two years. He has also seen France twice. In 1981, when a trip to the Soviet Union fell through because of difficulties with visas, he simply redirected his tour group to Copenhagen, Budapest, Istanbul, Athens and Madrid. Since 1981, the Congressman has taken nine tours to 18 countries, all at taxpayers' expense...