Word: tourisme
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...their Afro-Asian visitors were confused about Algeria's new government, the Algerians were left even deeper in the dark. The government-controlled press, radio and TV pointedly avoided any explanation of its aims. The regime's newly appointed spokesman, a suave former tourism minister named Si Slimane, even refused to identify the members of the ruling Revolutionary Council or say how many there were. Asked last week whether Houari Boumedienne was in fact the new Chief of State, Slimane snapped back: "That is a question which should not be asked...
Nobody Waved Good-Bye gives lively evidence of the creativity of the National Film Board of Canada, the government-sponsored agency that has won hundreds of international awards for adventurous shorts and cartoons on such diverse subjects as jazz, religion, tourism, sibling rivalry, Eskimo art, and even the life cycle of the small-mouthed bass. This film, N.F.B.'s first full-length feature to be distributed commercially across the U.S., is a winsome if wobbly essay on the plight of two affluent delinquents swimming against the stream of life in Toronto...
With foreign-exchange earnings from tourism dwindling, the French Government Tourist Office is now trying to change things with a campaign to "revive the French tradition of hospitality and courtesy." It cannot do much about prices (hotels and restaurants are already up 10% since last year), but State Secretary for Tourism Pierre Dumas is launching a $200,000 "campaign of welcome and amiability." Customs inspectors at major airports are being told not to think of themselves as "agents of repression." Instead, each arriving female tourist will receive a tiny bottle of Weil's Antilope and a single rose...
Stretched Blood. The blockade is hurting. The snail-pace behavior of the customs guards has crippled tourism. Gibraltar has tried to take up the slack with public-works projects and by passing laws to permit tax havens for small industry as well as Panama-style flags-of-convenience for shipowners...
...plans to expand in that state. The president of Cleveland's Work Wear Corporation put it bluntly, "We won't consider expanding in Mississippi until the state and its people join the Union again." Dollars spent on new plants in Mississippi fell by 28 per cent last year, and tourism has declined drastically, a major blow to the resort areas of the Gulf Coast...