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Travel cutbacks are hitting hotels and restaurants in Washington, Tokyo, Paris and other capitals as well. In Cairo the Egyptian government shut down the Pyramids and other monuments -- and thus most of the tourism industry -- to protect against terrorist threats. "It's a disaster. Because of the war, we are at a standstill," said Elhamy El Zayat, owner of one of Egypt's largest travel agencies. In Anaheim, Calif., Disneyland cut ticket prices for the first time ever, reducing one-day rates temporarily to $20 from $27 for people who live in Southern California. At a time when people...
Salem, 35, was studying at Stanford University when Saddam's forces moved into Kuwait. Within 48 hours Salem was back home in Kuwait City. Today, with his wife and three children safe in Cairo, he coordinates food distribution in the city, keeps tabs on foreigners still hiding there and funnels intelligence reports to Taif...
...Cairene named Mohammed Fawzy said last week. "The Kuwaitis are always in the nightclub and casino. All they think about is money. They think they can buy anything." The mass of Arabs recoil from the injustice of oil wealth that buys Scotch and an opulent life for the sheiks' Cairo holidays during Ramadan and leaves so many of their brothers in poverty and squalor. A Moroccan journalist remarks, "I don't care if he is a fascist. At least he doesn't gamble and chase women." Many Arabs admire Saddam for his hazem, a sort of relentless strictness, although...
...addition, by stirring up trouble in the Middle East, Saddam has been a disaster for the Egyptian tourist trade, an immense business and an important source of income. "He is a very bad man," says the manager of an elegant furniture store in a Cairo bazaar. "It is not a way to act, for one Arab brother to attack another, as Saddam attacked Kuwait. If everybody did this, what would our region be like?" A woman who claims to be one of only two female licensed cabdrivers in Egypt is blunt about Saddam: "He is a very dirty...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan, David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...