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Qualification for the program are simple, including (besides enthusiasm) only a medical exam, a personal recommendation from a community leader, a valid passport, and an interview with a program organizer. Groups fly charter for a reduced $500 fare from the U.S. to Tel Aviv, where they are picked up by bus and taken to their military base...
...Postal Service should be profitable [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, April 2]. Thanks to Congress, it is immune from paying damages that result from bungled mail delivery. I learned the hard way. My passport, which was sent by certified mail, lay in the San Francisco post office for two weeks awaiting delivery. The Postal Service deserves the ridicule piled...
...operation might have been torn from the pages of the Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré's Middle Eastern thriller. Three young Palestinian terrorists slip across the Lebanese border into Israel, where a man with a Lebanese passport and a woman with one from the U.S. supply them with weapons. Then, on a sunny morning last week, the three drive a rented red Autobianchi up crowded King George V Street in West Jerusalem. Two of them enter a sporting-goods store and, in Arab-accented English, nervously ask to try on some jeans...
...warned by the government not to return. Two days before Aquino's arrival, Ver said, he ordered his men to launch Operation Homecoming, an elaborate plan to protect Aquino and deliver him to the proper authorities. Under that arrangement, if the politician arrived in Manila without a valid passport and visa, he would be denied entry. If Aquino did have the proper documents (an impossibility since the Philippine government had refused them to him), then he would be placed in protective custody...
...flight. Now visibly upset, the woman spilled out her story. She had gotten her ticket with plenty of time to spare and gone up to the departure area where there had been some confusion, and a lot of people milling about. She had been holding her ticket inside her passport, but when she got to the gate it was gone. Quickly she retraced her steps looking for the missing piece of paper but it had vanished...