On Oct. 19 an airline ticket was punched with a departure from BAH (Bahrain) with an arrival in TLV (Israel). It was as ordinary as a ticket from YYG to YHZ.
Why was it possible? Why was that ticket so unlikely and why for so long (entire history of the International Civil Aviation Organization)? How far back do the roots of all that go? How unlikely was the solution to the problem?
It starts to make one wonder about real politique and how much of it may be a real miracle and perhaps really does open the whole question of why we miss the "big sweeps" when they are actually happening and why no one seems interested in the question.
A lot had to change for this letter to be written, and it did.
Kevin O'Brien,
Cornwall, P.E.I.
