Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tourist Burma, your official hosts for seven days, try to discourage this activity by requiring you to fill out a bewildering number of currency forms, and have them stamped every time you change money, take a trip, stay in a hotel, or go to the bathroom. If your form says you only have 100 kyats but you come to the hotel with 500, they know you've been playing dirty, slap your wrists and send you back to "Go," do not collect...
...naturally, we were a little surprised to find ourselves approached for this illegal sale by the baggage handlers in the airport and even by the Tourist Burma representative himself. But, as we were soon to discover, in Burma the bureaucracy is half the fun, since nothing really works anyway, and nothing is on time. But who really cares, because the people are the friendliest and nicest in the world, and time stopped a hundred years ago anyway. If you're late enough for everything, maybe you'll miss your plane and get to stay another week...
...necessary to demolish the city's past in order to define its future. A step toward protecting those confectionary creations was taken on July 9, when the city commission created two historic districts encompassing the greatest concentration of art deco buildings along the south beach section, a once glitzy tourist mecca that has fallen on hard times. The ordinance requires a six-month waiting period for a permit to raze any building within the area, thereby giving preservationists time to find a way to save them...
Meanwhile in Genoa, some terrorists were receiving at least some punishment. Six jurors and two judges ordered less than the maximum sentences for several of the Palestinian terrorists charged in the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the murder of U.S. Tourist Leon Klinghoffer out of sympathy for their youth and the plight of the Palestinians. Though the prosecution sought a life sentence for Youssef Majed al Molqi, 23, who was accused of killing the wheelchair-bound Klinghoffer, the court sentenced him to 30 years...
...Tourists on Thailand's idyllic Phuket Island, where more than 300,000 visitors annually enjoy palm-lined beaches and seaside restaurants, were hard put last week to find much serenity. The peace was shattered by some 50,000 rampaging residents, angry at the projected opening of a tantalum factory near downtown Phuket. Protesters feared that pollutants from the refining of tantalum, a tin by-product used in the production of electronic equipment, might poison both the island's water supply and its blossoming tourist trade...