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...space-age creation. Cantilevered from her single smokestack, 14 stories above the waterline, is a flying cocktail lounge. Inside the ship, an atrium five decks high forms a main lobby, complete with glass elevators and towering fountains. There is nothing modest about the new ship, from her name, Sovereign of the Seas, freshly painted in bright blue letters across the bow, to her size. Sovereign ranks as the largest cruise liner in the world, capable of carrying 2,690 passengers and 750 crew members. The venerable Queen Elizabeth 2, by comparison, accommodates 1,909 passengers...
...Sovereign, scheduled to arrive in the Port of Miami this week to begin service for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, is a glittering symbol of a new Golden Age for passenger ships. In the 1950s the onset of jet travel left the * cruise industry dead in the water. But through the '80s the business has been growing at flank speed. Roughly 1.5 million North Americans took cruises in 1982; by 1987 that figure had doubled...
...veritable armada of giant ships due to follow in the wake of Sovereign of the Seas could produce overcapacity in the industry and a shake-out sometime in the next few years. Already, many cruise lines offer discounts of up to 25% to keep their berths full. But the industry's leaders point out that only about 5% of the U.S. population has ever taken a cruise. They figure that there are enough potential cruise converts among the remaining 95% to pack the new megaliners, especially if those landlubbers keep watching Love Boat reruns...
...decision to rescind the pariah status of Egypt, which was suspended from the Arab League in 1979 after signing its peace treaty with Israel. While Syria vetoed the re-entry of its archrival into the league, the communique declared that re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Egypt "is a sovereign matter to be decided by each state." Within days, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Kuwait had all renewed relations, and at least four other states were expected to follow suit...
American foreign policy created the contras, a ragtag bunch of political-outs who seem to have more support in Miami than in Managua. The Sandinistas led a successful and legitimate revolution against a heinous dictatorship. Their government is recognized as sovereign by the majority of people in that country as well as the majority of nations in the world. It should by recognized as an equal nation by our nation...