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...movement gained momentum among whites after the summer's Miami riots and huge influx of Cuban refugees. Stung by the backlash, one Hispanic spokesman called the law "the most destructive thing that has ever happened to this community." Its impact, however, will mainly be on county road signs, tourist brochures and public notices. Bilingual education programs will not be affected...
...Indian Heritage Society's urging, the government is considering means of protecting the Taj, India's greatest tourist attraction (more than 3.5 million visitors a year). It has installed pollution-monitoring gear. It has also promised to relocate the power stations and foundries and to replace coal-burning locomotives with diesels. But these are expensive, perhaps ultimately unworkable solutions. Meanwhile, workmen are repairing and replacing marble slabs as fast as they can. So far, though, the pollutants are winning the race...
...Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba. TIME'S Robert Slater last week took a helicopter tour of the area and saw dramatic evidence of that resupply in action: "Normally Aqaba is a sleepy port town, one that has always lagged far behind the nearby Israeli resort of Eilat in tourist traffic as well as commerce...
...decline in suburban developments, however, has been paralleled by a growth in downtown shopping centers, which often include restaurants and theaters as well as department stores. Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace has be come a premier tourist attraction, and Baltimore's Harborplace had an estimated 10 million visitors during the first five weeks it was open. In Asheville, N.C., 100 old buildings in the downtown area will be demolished to make room for a new enclosed shopping mall...
...movie theater before the playing of the national anthem at the end of a show. The Picasso Summer acutely satirizes the dilemma of an art lover. Strolling one evening, he stumbles upon the Master doodling a huge mural in the French sand. Caught without a camera, the tourist moves slowly up and down the beach, trying to make a mental photograph of the masterpiece before a rising tide comes to wash it away...