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...will assorted treasury chiefs, finance ministers and central bankers-France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Germany's Karl Schiller, Italy's Guido Carli. Like their predecessors at Bretton Woods, these men face the necessity of crafting a new system to finance global trade, tourism and investment. They surely will not finish that herculean job by the time the annual meeting of the 118-country International Monetary Fund ends Friday. The question is whether they will even begin, or whether they will instead turn the world even closer toward a potentially ruinous trade...
Against this background of U.S.-Japanese conflict, Emperor Hirohito's trip assumes new significance. While in most respects it is simply high-level tourism, the journey symbolizes an attempt to reach out to the West and to find ties with nations other than...
...close friends and two friends of distant cousins were in Israel. With jumbo jets disgorging hundreds at a time, and more than 100 flights per day going in and out, Transport Minister Shimon Peres complains, "We prepared for 3,000 tourists a day. We did not expect 10,000." Tourism in the occupied territories, from
...fear that Moscow will exploit their internal quarrels, chiefly the one between the Catholic Croats and the more numerous Orthodox Serbs. The Croatians, whose territory includes the lucrative Dalmatian coast, have been complaining that the Serbs used their influence in the federal government to siphon off Croatia's tourism riches for use in other republics...
...Dayan. "Gaza is more of a problem than a gift," said Dayan of the former Egyptian occupied territory, which stretches along the Mediterranean south and west of Israel. Events since then have proved him right. Israel connected Gaza to its electric grid, drummed up potential business and even encouraged tourism to aid the territory. But Gaza's 390,000 residents were-and still are-unremittingly hostile. So far this year seven Israelis and 206 Arabs have been killed in the Strip. Last week alone seven Arab guerrillas were shot to death, two of them killed in a fight...