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...there. Back in World War II, the town did house 3,000 German and Italian prisoners of war. The POWs are still remembered for the fancy European-style banquets they gave, and for the 50-ft.-wide Nativity scene carved out of concrete, which today is Algona's sole tourist attraction...
...Administration officials are bracing themselves for Fidel Castro's next "dirty trick": the lifting of age restrictions on travel abroad. Currently, only older Cubans (men over 45, women over 40) are allowed to visit relatives in the U.S. The State Department knows it will be flooded with ; requests for tourist visas if the age limit is lifted. "The Cubans are trying to embarrass us," grouses one official. The U.S. suspects that the dictator plans to repeat the 1980 Mariel boatlift, in which he exported malcontents and hardened criminals to southern Florida. "We've been on the blacklist because...
Accidental Tourist...
...love foreign cultures. I love foreign languages," says Range, who speaks French and German. "I don't like to travel as a tourist. I like to travel as a journalist because it's your job then to become expert about wherever...
...Luckily for the tourism industry [January and February is] not a prime booking time. The war had little effect," says Meehan. The height of the tourist booking season, he says, doesn't arrive until April...