Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there will be severe shock waves. Several members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) threatened to raise the price of oil by the amount of the eventual dollar devaluation, which could result in much higher tags on gasoline and fuel oil. The airlines, international hotel companies and travel agents stand to be hurt by the higher costs of traveling abroad, which vacationers are already beginning to bear (see page 13). International air fares will not immediately go up as a consequence of dollar devaluation. The 108-member International Air Transport Association must unanimously approve any changes...
...result, people in many countries can easily buy Volvos, Nikons and Lowenbrau, invest in the stocks of Sony and Unilever, travel and change their money with ease. American corporations have set up plants abroad; Ford, Pepsi...
...will meet once again early this week. Then, barring a last-minute hitch, they will dispatch the draft document to their governments for approval. Once that is secured, officials of the two Germanys and the two Berlins must hammer out the final details concerning access to the city and travel between West Berlin and East Berlin and between West Berlin and East Germany. The whole fragile structure of settlement could come apart at any step along the way. For that reason, the text of last week's umbrella agreement will not be made public until the Big Four ambassadors...
ACCESS. The most important achievement for the West was a Soviet guarantee of free and "unimpeded" travel along the three air corridors, two autobahns, three rail lines and two waterways that traverse the 110 miles between West Berlin and West Germany. The Soviets had long maintained that they were powerless to prevent East Germany from harassing traffic along the corridors; last week's agreement became possible only after the Russians consented to take specific responsibility for ensuring free access to West Berlin. The draft document specifies that passenger and freight trains, buses and trucks will be sealed before they...
...nefeld has long operated in the shadow of West Berlin's bustling Tempelhof air terminal. All together, 5.5 million air passengers a year stream in and out of West Berlin compared to the 1.5 million who travel to or from East Berlin. Lately, travelers from West Berlin have discovered that Interflug, the East German flag carrier, offers some of the world's greatest fare bargains to those willing to take a bus through the city's dividing wall. Interflug charges only $110 for a round trip to Istanbul, $354 to Teheran and $152 to Beirut...