Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years of fighting, with a death toll of 181 guerrillas, 20 security-force soldiers, twelve white and 88 black civilians. At a dozen points along the border, Mozambique-based guerrillas fired rockets and mortars at white settlements inside Rhodesia. From Zambian bases, other guerrillas attacked a motel in the tourist center of Victoria Falls, killing one white guest and wounding two others. In retaliation for the accelerated insurgency, Rhodesian security forces supported by helicopters, armored vehicles and aging bombers swept at least 50 miles into Mozambique to strike at guerrilla camps; it is believed that at least 500 blacks were...
Jari officials have recently moved to open up the project to outside visitors, especially Brazilians. But Ludwig himself determinedly maintains his cherished privacy. Unannounced, he slips in and out of Brazil on regularly scheduled commercial flights, riding tourist class...
Most Thais seem to have accepted with relief or resignation the demise of then-chaotic three-year-old "democratic experiment." Bangkok has quickly recovered its sybaritic style. The city's annual autumn festivals, its race track and fleshpots are jammed with tourists. Shares on the local stock market have risen 70% in the past three weeks. The bullet-and-grenade-pocked classrooms of Thammasat University, site of the bloody student rioting that preceded the coup (TIME, Oct. 18), have become something of a tourist attraction. But the total of 41 dead in the riots is not forgotten: cremations...
...only real trouble came on the way back when I decided to play Tommy Tourist and see the sights in New Jersey. The next thing I knew, I was driving through downtown Newark at the happy hour, and if there's one experience in life which can be missed, it's driving through downtown Newark, at any hour...
...businessmen were not overly surprised by the news. Rumors of a peso devaluation had been in the air for months, fueled by a huge Mexican trade deficit ($3.7 billion in 1975), stubborn 15%-a-year inflation and high foreign debt ($13 billion). A devaluation was also sought by tourist operators, whose business declined 4% in 1975, owing largely to price increases that had made once cheap Mexico City as costly for Americans as many European cities. Said President Luis Echeverría Alvarez: "In the end, there will be more jobs, more production, more exports and more tourism...