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...bustling tourist haven in the past, the nation's capital (pop. 1.5 million) currently resembles a city under attack. Major hotels are cordoned off and closely guarded. Some skyscrapers have a spooky, battered look; as many as one-third of their windows have been blown out by leftist bombs. Dozens of streets near sensitive government and military installations have been closed in an attempt to foil terrorists. Death threats against Frederic Chapin, Washington's Ambassador to Guatemala, were taken so seriously that a special Marine sniper team was temporarily added to the U.S. embassy staff. For safety...
...ever go to India?" Wally asks. "I felt all wrong. I felt just like a tourist." And on to Scottish eccentrics and their All Soul's Day celebrations...
These are not cheap shots aimed to cripple Rumania's tourist industry or elicit smug agreement about Communist inefficiency. Corde has seen worse in Chicago. He has, in fact, written about it with appalling accuracy for Harper's magazine and caused a flap. The dean has also been criticized for his role in the arrest of two blacks accused of murder. Corde has been called a racist, a traitor to his home town and a fool. His boss is miffed at the publicity caused by his magazine piece, and his boyhood friend Dewey Spangler, now a famous columnist...
Ever since word got out about your cover story on South Florida, all I have heard from local TV, radio and newspapers is how unfortunate that the report ran at the beginning of the tourist season. Not a word about how right you are, and what are we going to do about...
Compared with Leonid Brezhnev, Ronald Reagan travels tourist class. The Soviet leader's 110-man entourage (the largest official delegation ever to accompany a visiting foreign leader to Bonn) included high Soviet government officials, interpreters, typists, 40 security men (five of them generals), 27 communications men, three doctors, a nurse, two waiters, a chambermaid, a cook and a barber...