Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warehouses. With most of the working-age male population still in the army, labor shortages have become severe. Mayor Kollek has had to recruit high school pupils to work in Jerusalem's bakeries to ensure adequate supplies of bread. A huge drop in retail sales and in the tourist trade (hotel occupancy in October was 75% below normal) markedly reduced local tax collections. To meet its payroll, Jerusalem had to go to private banks for loans...
McGuane carries the process of Tom's self-definition to its ultimate conclusion as Tom persists in his ambition and courts inevitable mortal opposition from old-timer Nichol Dance over his share in Key West's tourist guiding trade...
Israel has provided 80 escort officers, including the movie star Haim Topol, to act as translators and tour guides to combat zones approved by Israeli security. As an added fillip, the military press liaison runs daily tourist buses from Tel Aviv to the Golan Heights, but this service is unpopular with many reporters. "I wouldn't get into one of those coffins with masses of correspondents," says New York Times Correspondent Terence Smith. Indeed, on one trip, bus drivers ventured too close to the battle line and came under Syrian air and artillery attack. Only poor marksmanship averted...
Chic Anarchy. Finally Sack trots out Calley again, this time interviewed before his trial while he was playing tourist in New York. Dressed in a brown tweed suit with a credit card in his wallet, Calley glues himself to a telescope atop the Empire State Building and looks for sunbathing girls. Downstairs it's a four-Bloody Mary lunch and reminiscences about Asian whores. "Normal, normal," says Sack, "like sugar in water, he had been dropped in a city street scene but he didn't displace anything." It is a little late in the century, though...
Actions since 1969 have substantiated Dayan's statement. Israeli oil rigs have stepped up exploration in the Sinai. Construction of tourist resorts has begun. As Dayan put it in 1971, "Other countries end their wars with the idea of going back to the points they started from. In our case, we want something new, new borders, new relations, a new state...