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Perhaps the most unsettling thing about last week's killing of a German tourist in Miami is that Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand and his wife were perfectly willing to start their belated honeymoon by behaving like urban guerrillas. They had the right attitude for a city where five foreign tourists have been killed so far this year: if you want a vacation in Miami, train for it. Before departing in their rental car from the airport last Tuesday, they mapped out their route in advance. They kept to the main road. They stored their valuables out of sight, drove...
...truck as well. The day before, they arrested the driver of the truck, Recondall Wiggins, 19, who seemed so stunned by the deed that he ran to confess it to his mother, a secretary in the Metro Dade police department. "Momma! Did you hear about the tourist that got shot? I'm going to prison 'cause we did it," he told her. Barely an hour after the crime, he, Jones, and a third cruising bandit even drove back to the police-packed scene in a stolen car to see what they had done...
...same time, the rest of the West Bank will move toward what is being called "early empowerment," a kind of preliminary self-rule in education, health, social services and taxation. The Palestinians will also win control of the tourist industry, which has suffered greatly during the uprising but could be quite profitable. Israeli occupation authorities and soldiers will remain for a while, but only until a Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority is elected to govern the whole of the territories...
...Until several years ago, the best chance of finding instant felicity was to go to Japan, a society that polls still purport to be among the most satisfied on earth. A principal reason for such fulfillment no doubt lay in one of the country's most alluring tourist attractions: a remote railway depot on the northern island of Hokkaido called Koufuku Eki, or Happiness Station. There, travelers whose feet had strayed from the path to contentment could set themselves aright by reaching into their pockets, plunking down $2.10 and buying, literally, "a ticket to Happiness...
Perhaps the unlikeliest stage event of the decade will occur next month in ye olde and quainte Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The tourist haven's Shaw Festival, one of North America's bigger and better theaters and the world's most faithful keeper of the flame for the white-bearded windbag of Fabian socialism, is sponsoring a debate premised on the heretical idea that its patron dramatist should be outranked as a playwright by his colleague Harley Granville Barker. Although recalled chiefly as producer (The Doctor's Dilemma), director (Major Barbara) or actor (Man and Superman) of many Shavian...