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Article: Apace With Mideastern Air Space
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 20, 1988
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Before becoming a Middle East reporter, I liked to picture myself
hitching camels to goat-hair tents, or banging telexes while rockets
screamed overhead.
My days, I supposed, would be filled with life-and-death
choices. Often they are.
Which to fly, Sudan or Yemen Airways?
Ethiopian Airlines? Will they feed me?
Air Djibouti? Where's Djibouti?
Mind you, most aspects of Middle East travel are filled with
fear and loathing. Outside capital cities, a night in a hotel can
become a brief Outward Bound expedition: fighting off a phalanx of
insects, reinventing the toilet, downing food that a sensible
cockroach would avoid. Taxi rides alone are cause for canceled
insurance. In Egypt, the ...