Word: travele
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Correspondents usually stationed in the Middle East also found their travel plans disrupted. Cairo Bureau Chief Dean
...what Cairo residents described as a "miracle," the city managed to get ready for the President very quickly. Travel routes were cleaned, electricity service was improved (in the hope that street lights would not all suddenly go out, as often happens), and communication equipment was installed to serve the official American party and the estimated 2,500 journalists covering the trip. To house the visitors, the government took over the entire 400-room Nile Hilton Hotel, forcing its infuriated guests to find other accommodations in the middle of the tourist season. Concerned about terrorists, authorities confined Cairo residents with radical...
...dusk-to-dawn curfew. In the eastern highlands on the Mozambique border, fleeing white farmers have abandoned some 160,000 acres of farm land, or about 10% of the acreage under cultivation; the 6,500 who remain tend their acres from within fortress-like arrays of fences, and travel through the bush in vehicles built to withstand mine explosions. Increasingly, the Rhodesian military has resorted to sending its jets on bombing raids on guerrilla camps in Zambia and Angola. Last week one such raid into Angola, according to the Patriotic Front, killed 192 and wounded nearly 1,000 guerrillas...
...inevitably known, is a live-aboard bus with a bar, kitchen, sky lounge and eight mahogany-paneled passenger rooms, each with two beds, shower and toilet, radio, closed-circuit television, closet, dresser, heating and air conditioning. The first of ten vehicles to be eventually acquired by the nationally franchised Travel Network Corp. went into operation this month in Arizona, Nevada and California...
...minimum daily rate on the wavward inn is $75 a person, double occupancy, which includes a Continental breakfast. Snoozers will be available both for charters and scheduled tours, and Travel Network President Barry Jones expects a wide variety of guests. "With the Snoozer," he says, "we're not in the business of transporting people from A to B. The bus is really the destination...