Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the new mayor promised to tackle Carmel's No. 1 problem, tourist parking, he may first have to deal with the tourists, who are expected to jam city council meetings. "We'll encourage nonresidents to stay away," Eastwood quipped in his best tough-guy fashion. "Maybe with a two-by-four with a nail...
...Israel, a Jerusalem travel agent complains just as bitterly that "our season has been screwed." Last year tourism earned the country $1.1 billion, and Israeli tourist officials had expect ed 1986 to be another big year, with more than 500,000 Americans due to visit, vs. 433,000 last year. Now, says Israeli Tourism Spokeswoman Bonnie Goldman, "we're lucky if we match 1984's figure of 400,000. We're worried and concerned about it." With reason: at a convention of high-risk-insurance agents in Jerusalem last week, only 150 of the 500 scheduled guests actually showed...
...brings substantial cash into an economy formerly based on coconuts. Today, 1,365 women on 17 islands turn out thousands of dollars' worth of mola products each year, from pillows and purses to the traditional squares. The co-op runs a store in Panama City that sells wholesale to tourist shops in town and even exports to the U.S. Like everything else in the co-op, the store is run by Kuna women only...
Eastwood has been doing his own door knocking in the town's four precincts. Dressed in a tie and tweed sports jacket, he tells voters that he too wishes to preserve Carmel. "The residents and the business community must cooperate to solve the parking and tourist problem," he says. The low-key approach and easy smile have won over folks who knew him only from film. The race appears to be between Eastwood and Townsend, but no candidate seems ready to concede. "I'll whip his butt," vows Laub, the T-shirt salesman...
Since then, Savimbi has foregone any conceivable peaceful resolution of the conflict by accepting aid, arms and even occasional direct military support from South African forces. Angola, which used to boast a vibrant tourist industry and a comparatively energetic economy, has been devastated by the war of attrition that pits the MPLA and 30,000 Cuban troops against UNITA and the South African army...