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Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden, Roland Flamini Paris: Jordan Bonfante, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
Europe: Christopher Redman London: Christopher Ogden, Roland Flamini Paris: Jordan Bonfante, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
...first, it sounded eerily like those stories about the Bermuda Triangle, that mysterious patch of water and air off the southeastern U.S. where planes and ships inexplicably disappear, never to be seen again. South African Airways Flight 295, bound for Johannesburg from Taipei, was ten minutes away from its scheduled landing on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius for refueling when the pilot radioed the control tower saying there was smoke in the cabin. The Boeing 747 was immediately cleared for an emergency instrument landing. Said Servan Sing, an air-traffic controller on Mauritius: "After that, we had no contact...
Inevitably some white residents of neighborhoods in transition, especially those populated by working-class families, extend something less than a hearty welcome to those who cross the color line. A scribbled message on a shopping center wall in Yeoville, a blue-collar Johannesburg neighborhood, sums up the animosity: INTEGRATION STINKS. In Bertrams, another working-class neighborhood of Johannesburg, a white woman who lives on a street whose residents are mostly black, colored or Indian, voices a typical complaint. "If they lived one family to a flat, it wouldn't be so bad," she says. "But there are so many that...