Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...withdrawal in Sinai last February. If there is no Egyptian give, Israel feels, the situation could deteriorate. Explained one Foreign Ministry official: "If they want no more war, then they have to give us something tangible for any further withdrawals." Among such tangibles might be an arrangement for direct tourist travel between the two countries or the passage of Israeli cargoes through the Suez Canal, which is expected to reopen in March...
...Kissinger, Ecevit has promised "reasonable" concessions and says that he is willing to give up some of the ground won by his troops. The issue is complicated by the fact that the Turkish-held territory contains something like 70% of the island's wealth-producing farms, factories and tourist facilities, most of which are owned by Greeks, not to mention the island's only deepwater port, Famagusta...
Last week the government, using an $8.7 million bond that Court Line had posted, pushed a major effort-dubbed Operation Sunburn by some jokesters -to bring Court Line's stranded tourists home. And over Tory jeers that the Court Line affair proved Labor's ineptitude in dealing with industry, the government unfurled further nationalization plans: to take control of all British ports and their ancillary operations and to nationalize the country's two largest aircraft makers, British Aircraft and Hawker Siddeley. So far, though, no plans have been announced to nationalize the tourist industry...
...artillery fire preceded the tanks, and the native Greek forces, outgunned and outmanned, were unable to slow their advance. By early afternoon, the Turks were almost halfway to Famagusta, the island's principal port, its third largest (pop. 43,600) city and the center of its usually booming tourist industry. By Thursday evening, they had reached the old part of the city and rescued 12,000 of the island's Turks, who had been hiding from Greek Cypriots behind the walls of the medieval fortress...
...death of Shirali Muslimov last year at the reported age of 168 was a blow to the village of Barzavu, in the Soviet Caucasus. It ended the role of the mountain hamlet not only as a tourist attraction but also as a gerontological mecca. For decades Soviet and Western scientists had made the pilgrimage to Barzavu to auscultate stouthearted Muslimov and inquire about his diet, life-style and sexual habits. But his death still left thousands of alleged supercentenarians in the U.S.S.R. vying for the attention of gerontologists...