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Saddled with a reputation for erratic performance, Continental pioneered the junk fares last February to woo business flyers. "Our first order was to restore the quality of the operation and then offer a fare structure to entice the frequent flyer back," explains Continental president Martin Shugrue. Other airlines soon followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Come Fly the Costly Skies | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

To her supporters, she is an avenging angel who promises to restore democracy. To opponents, she is impetuous, arrogant and inexperienced, a menace intent on undermining Islam and order. Angel or devil, Benazir Bhutto, 35, now holds the keys to the kingdom.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sense There Is Justice | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Nothing in her upbringing as the indulged eldest daughter of a wealthy landholding Sindhi family, or in her education at Harvard and Oxford, prepared her to shoulder her father's legacy so much as the trials she endured after his execution. Jailed or detained for more than five years, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sense There Is Justice | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Not that Gabler stints his descriptions of the rages and outrages by which, up to now, we have known Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, Harry Cohn and their ilk. There is plenty of rowdy entertainment here. But there is also unsentimental sympathy for these East European Jews who, barred by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Nov. 21, 1988 | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Nearly all the invaders were believed to be former Tamil separatist guerrillas from Sri Lanka, apparently in the pay of Maldivian elements hostile to Gayoom. The President issued pleas for military intervention from India and the U.S. as well as Britain, which held Maldives as a protectorate from 1887 until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maldive Islands Heading Them Off at the Atoll | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

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