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...height of the tourist season, and hotelman are not enthusiastic over the prospect of canceling reservations to make room for the delegates. Taxpayers, who voted down nine bond proposals last June, see the cost of police protection and city services during the convention as an unnecessary revenue drain. Support for the convention was rallied by the San Diego Union-Administration Communications Director Herb Klein was once a Union editorial writer-but opposition was strong. Said one county official: "Everybody in San Diego wants the convention except the people." President Nixon's favor has even caused a rift within...
...past, when Thailand's role in the war guaranteed a steady inflow of money, bureaucratic lethargy was tolerable. Even corruption did not prove too great a drain. No longer. Having opted for a modern economy, Thailand needs a new sense of purpose before anything like the good old days will return...
...stubbornly to its independence and can always look toward Moscow to fill in military supplies that Peking might cut off. Yet China remains influential because of its current and past help to Hanoi in the war. China watchers are increasingly convinced that Peking's leaders are tired of this drain on their time, money and materiel and are eager to concentrate on building their economy?and confronting some 400,000 Soviet troops poised near their borders. Moreover, they no longer fear that the U.S. will emerge from the war in any position that would seriously embarrass the Communist forces...
...fare from New York to Miami is $166; from Chicago to Jamaica, $286; Chicago to Hawaii, $346. Asks one Eastern Air Lines vice president: "How can we sell a kid on going to Miami when he can go to London for just a few bucks more?" AN EVEN BIGGER DRAIN ON THE U.S. "BALANCE OF TOURISM." Since 1960, Americans have spent $19 billion more abroad than foreign visitors have spent in the U.S., and this year's deficit is expected to top $2.5 billion. By contrast, Italy's tourism surplus usually helps put its overall balance of payments...
...that is willing-or, rather, unable to be unwilling-to perform dirty work at low cost." Poor people "prolong the economic usefulness" of day-old bread, secondhand clothes and cars and deteriorated buildings; they also provide income for incompetent doctors, lawyers and teachers who might otherwise be an economic drain on society...