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...hardest-hit travel destination in the Mediterranean region appears to be Egypt, where some 8,000 police conscripts heavily damaged luxury hotels near the Pyramids when they went on an impromptu riot in February. About 80% of the Americans who planned to visit the country have now canceled their reservations, thus wiping out most of the $100 million in U.S. tourism revenues that Egypt stood to gain this year. Says Adel Zaki, manager of ETA Tours, a large Egyptian travel agency: "This year is going to be a catastrophe...
...Rising sophomores are invited to all springevents including the formal, and are of coursewelcome to come down any time. There will be aspecial welcoming brunch next Sunday, after whichthere will be an impromptu orientation meeting inthe JCR with the masters, tutors and housecommittee...
...World aquatic park. Trading his tights for a wet suit, the A.B.T. director jumped into a training tank for a pas de trois with two 900-lb. Pacific whales. An avid supporter of the Save the Whales campaign, the Latvian fed the leviathans some fish and performed an impromptu water ballet with them. "They're so powerful yet so gentle," he enthused. Speaking for the whales, Trainer Jennine Antrim spouted, "They were very responsive to him. They looked quite graceful together." Of course, Misha makes all his partners look good...
...afternoons when interest in the case has waned, and the flies buzz and the guards doze in the heat, that Charles Sobhraj will make his move." That prediction, made in 1979 in a best-selling book, The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj, became reality last week. During an impromptu "birthday party" with his jailers at the Tihar Central Jail in New Delhi, Sobhraj plied seven officials and guards with drugged sweets, tied them up, then sped away in a waiting car with six fellow inmates...
Plans are being made to provide each UTEP graduate that goes on to teach with a picture phone so that impromptu teaching seminars can be held periodically...