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...share. Analysts estimated that the company's Pacific routes and real estate holdings, including $500 million worth of property in Japan, have a value of $2 billion by themselves. Beyond that, Northwest owns more than 230 airliners and has a far-flung route system that extends from Shanghai to Stockholm...
Maybe John Wheelwright should be in Stockholm," says John Irving, the former college wrestler who pinned the nation's attention in 1978 with The World According to Garp. Maybe, but Toronto turned out to be the perfect place. There one can be away but not away, close to home but not at home. The clean, well-lighted city on Lake Ontario is also where Irving, 47, met his second wife, literary agent Janet Turnbull. Irving and Turnbull were married in 1987, and maintain an apartment in Toronto's Forest Hill section. The author spends about a week each month north...
...language acceptable to Washington if not to Jerusalem -- has altered the political dynamics. The fact that five prominent American Jews coaxed Arafat until he finally got his rhetoric right in December demonstrated the changing role of American Jewry. When one of the quintet, Menachem Rosensaft, returned from the Stockholm meeting with Arafat, an effort was made to oust him as head of the Labor Zionist Alliance and member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. He survived the attempted purge, and remains a vehement critic of Likud policy. "I am particularly troubled," he says, "by the arrogant...
CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute}]CAPTION: Nations reported to have chemical weapons
...research and education are no substitutes for concrete action. The world community must move promptly toward comprehensive treaties to protect the air, soil and water. A framework for the effort exists within the U.N., which has already taken some important initiatives. In 1972 the U.N. organized the landmark Stockholm conference, which set up the United Nations Environment Program. It was under UNEP's sponsorship that 24 countries signed the 1987 Montreal Protocol, calling for a reduction in the output of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. There have also been proposals to enhance UNEP's role as a sort of intergovernmental superagency...