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...policeman, "just slid away," burying several people. In nearby Ciudad Guzman, 25 people were killed as they worshiped in a church that collapsed on them. Elsewhere, four popular hotels in the hard-hit resort area of Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa, on the Pacific coast, had to be evacuated because of damage: Riviera del Sol, El Presidente, Dorado Pacifico and the Sheraton...
...after 19 months of self-imposed exile in Britain. With her she brought the body of her brother Shahnawaz to be buried at the family cemetery near Larkana (pop. 123,000) in Sind province. Shahnawaz, 27, the youngest of Bhutto's four children, was found dead in his French Riviera apartment on July 18. He had once helped organize a terrorist group dedicated to overthrowing the regime of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, and the Bhutto family insists that he was murdered. His funeral turned into a defiant show of opposition to Zia's military rule...
...Cannes -- a thousand or so, from dozens of countries, on big theater screens and hotel-room cassettes -- as part of the 38th International Film Festival. But this was truly, as the trade paper Variety headlined it, "The Year of the Yank." A battalion of them landed at this Riviera beach resort, and before you could say "cultural imperialism" had convinced the assembled film world that they owned...
...group of stories under the rubric "Canadians Abroad" finds Gallant's characters pursuing an elusive freedom in Europe. A young woman seeks love on the French Riviera with the most improbable of romantic figures, a retired inspector of prisons in one of Britain's former Asian colonies. When she leaves him she takes up with a fellow "in terrible trouble -- back taxes, ex- wife seizing his salary." A pair of perpetual expatriates seem doomed to misadventure: they pile up debts; they are ostracized by fellow Ca- nadian exiles; they have rows with hotel managers, and their children throw...
This is ideal if you're planning a visit. Central Kentucky--Lexington and its environs--is what you could call a non-touristy tourist spot, not unlike what the French Riviera (albeit without beaches) must have been like before distant vacations became widely available to the non-affluent...