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DIED A Russian-language scholar, Heyward Isham, 82, served as chief of the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks on Vietnam from 1971 to 1973 and as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. After manning key posts in Moscow and Hong Kong, he became Assistant Secretary of State in 1977.
Some families of the 152 victims, 66 of them French nationals, claim their relatives died as a result of sub-standard practices the airline uses once it's beyond the view of European inspectors (Efforts to contact Yemenia officials for comment this week were unsuccessful). The modern Airbus A330 that...
But the airline's near-sparkling safety record is of little comfort to France's enraged Comoran community of 250,000. Following the crash, their protests of what they call Yemenia's reckless practices disrupted the airline's flights from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport and forced it to discontinue...
But a check with other airlines shows that Air France, British Airways, Air Kenya and others offer similar service to Moroni, albeit with stopovers in Africa, rather than Yemen - some even at lower prices. When questioned about this, SOS Voyages to Comoros argued that seats on other airlines are often...
Potentially more damning, though, is Yemenia's habit of flying newer A330s from Paris to Sanaa and then swapping them for older A310s to fly people continuing on to the impoverished Comoros. Surely that suggests better treatment for its richer clients than those from developing nations, right?