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...tourist bus took passengers on a ten-minute ride over a newly paved macadam road to the Caravan Hotel, Sharm el Sheikh's year-old 350-bed caravansary. Before we started, the bus driver turned to a young man. "Nu, buddy," he said, "where are you going without a ticket?" The man paid the 40-cent fare and said, "Take me downtown." At that the driver smiled. "Downtown? This isn't Tel Aviv-yet." Certainly not, judging from a first look at the treeless landscape, flat stretches of fine reddish gravel, and cone-shaped peaks of the bleak...
...road to Eilat. "We're here if they want us to build houses too," says Supervisor Avraham Calev. Some of his workers have already joined the waiting list for government-supplied housing. One, Avraham Freedman, mused about the future. "Look at the lights shining on the Caravan Hotel," he said. "It's almost like Chicago." I saw only one string of lights, but Freedman was sincere. "Trust the Israelis; one day it will be like Hollywood here...
...Caravan to Vacarres, MacLean...
...then ruled her party. Up at 5 a.m. and rarely to bed before midnight, she delivers as many as 40 speeches a day. During the six-week campaign, she will have visited all of India's 19 states, traveled tens of thousands of miles, often in a caravan of gleaming white World War II-vintage jeeps, and spoken to an estimated 100 millon people...
...Caravan to Vaccares, MacLean...