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...improving air safety in the North Pacific, and thus avoiding a repetition of the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983. Negotiations to resume direct air service between New York City and Moscow got hung up on technicalities like establishing proper ticketing procedures between Aeroflot and Pan Am, which were finally resolved later in the week. There was also an agreement to set up new consulates in New York and Kiev. More vaguely still, the two leaders expressed plans to "consult" on specific programs for cooperation on environmental preservation and nuclear fusion research...
...Pan Weiming, 36, followed a zigzag route to his job as senior deputy director of Shanghai's propaganda bureau. A wiry and energetic man, Pan tilled rice and ran a small pesticide plant in the Jinggang mountains of central China during the Cultural Revolution. At 28 he enrolled in Peking University, where he studied Chinese literature and was elected chairman of the student union. Returning to Shanghai after finishing school, Pan joined the city's propaganda department and rose quickly. "Living with peasants for eight years," he reflects, "I saw how poor and backward our country was. The poverty shook...
...family off on a vacation trip to Frankfurt. Miranda Acosta and Cisneros were probably the first to be killed. Then the attackers raked the 820-ft.-long terminal with bullets, hitting people waiting for an E1 A1 flight and others at nearby TWA and Pan Am counters. The men jumped up and down in a frenzy, screaming as they fired, and security guards shot back. "People were falling all over the place," recalled Anna Girometta, who operates a gift shop near the coffee bar. "It seemed to go on forever." Five minutes later, the carnage was over. The toll...
Wall Street thinks that many airlines, including Eastern, Pan Am, Western and Ozark, are vulnerable to takeovers. But People Express is not on the hit list, Burr insists. Says he: "It would be nearly impossible to take over People. We're bulletproof." Burr points out that 62% of his airline's stock is controlled by employees, directors or other friendly investors...
...UCLA. But she stayed, married a Chinese American and pursued a U.S. career in a succession of lackluster television roles. Now Chen, 23, has finally got her big break, the part of the innocent yet scheming beauty, May-May, in the film adaptation of James Clavell's Tai-Pan. The movie just finished shooting on location in China, where the authorities were not delighted by Chen's return, feeling the role was a degrading one for a Chinese to play. "The homecoming hit me with mixed emotions," says Chen. "In some ways, I accepted that it was no longer possible...