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...Super Chief and 20th Century Limited to New York, then on to Europe aboard the Normandie or Queen Mary. Pan American did not introduce the first commercial flights to Europe until June 1939. But even then, its majestic Boeing flying boats took more than 29 hours to get from Port Washington, N.Y., to Marseilles...
...passengers, boarding Le Mistral II in Port Isabel, Texas, the only luggage needed is their bankroll. Le Mistral embarks on four-to-six-hour cruises into the Gulf of Mexico, where the ship eludes the Texas ban on casino gambling. When the vessel enters international waters, the crew opens the ship's gaming tables and slot machines. Since its maiden voyage in November, it has been attracting 250 to 300 customers a trip...
While Florida-based ships offer similar trips to nowhere, Le Mistral is the first in Texas. One reason is that it cruises through a loophole in state law that requires the ship to make a "bona fide voyage to a foreign port," an obligation Le Mistral fulfills by sailing to a point off Mexico and clearing customs by radio. But the Texas legislature is considering striking the foreign-port requirement, thus making such cruises more practical from Galveston and other Texas ports...
When they learn that their applications for political asylum in the U.S. are finally about to be dealt with, they trek to a makeshift Immigration and Naturalization Service post at the newly opened Port Isabel Processing Center, 25 miles away. Two weeks ago, angry local officials forced the shutdown of an INS office in Harlingen to rid the town of 500 refugees who have been shoehorned into overcrowded shelters and camps since last year. At Port Isabel, the refugees, clutching their meager possessions, line up to be fingerprinted and questioned by immigration officials -- and then wait some more to find...
...with Egypt cutting off a key Israeli port and massing troops along Israel's southern border, Syria shelling the northern border and both nations calling for war, Israel fought back. Israel won the West Bank and Gaza in that war and at the time indicated that it was eager to negotiate a peace settlement to give them back. The Arab leaders meeting at the time refused, charging "no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel...