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...tentative agreement with El Al, the Israeli airline, to establish direct flights from Moscow to Tel Aviv, which would ferry 10,000 to 12,000 Jews per month out of the U.S.S.R. Without such flights, the only route out of the U.S.S.R. for Jews is a flight to Vienna, Rome, or Budapest, and then a connecting flight to either the U.S. or Israel...
...February 19th, Gorbachev succumbed to pressure from Arab states and rejected the agreement, which had been strongly supported by the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress. The U.S. government had been counting on the direct flights, so it shut down its way-stations in Vienna and Rome. No escape remains for Soviet Jews...
...such as I admire." Among them: human sacrifice, blinding of slaves and drinking from the skulls of fallen enemies. Still stronger tribes kept invading and conquering this region that is now the Ukraine: first the Sarmatians; then, in Roman times, the Goths and Huns; then, after the fall of Rome, the Avars and Khazars. The Khazar dynasty took the unusual course of adopting Judaism in about A.D. 740, whereupon Jewish refugees from Christian Constantinople helped create a Golden Age of trade and learning on the Black...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...only two limited treaties have been signed, the last one in 1979. East-West negotiations on reducing conventional armies in Europe began in Vienna and have yet to reach any agreements. Members of the European Community have been working toward economic integration, scheduled for 1992, since the Treaty of Rome was signed...