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...even tell there was a hurricane here," beams tourist Emma Meadows of Richwood, W. Va. Shops and restaurants are open, highways are clear, and only 400 of the island's 8,500 rooms are still out of service. The conference rooms and lobby of the 570-room Condado Plaza have new windows, carpeting, light fixtures and furniture. Tree surgeons at the El San Juan are nursing the trademark poolside banyan tree back to life; the hotel even gained an extra 10 ft. of beach...
There was widespread damage in San Juan's Condado Beach area, the site of many of the island's large tourist hotels. Shattered glass, strips of roofing and overturned trees littered the streets, and few drivers ventured out in their vehicles...
...court's pronouncement grew out of a case from Puerto Rico, where the former owners of the Condado Plaza Hotel and Casino had invoked the First Amendment guarantee of free speech to challenge a local ban on advertising by gambling casinos. Because of the crime and corruption that gambling could attract, Puerto Rico could have outlawed betting altogether, stated Justice William Rehnquist for the court, and the "greater power to completely ban casino gambling necessarily includes the lesser power to ban advertising of casino gambling." More ominously for other advertisers, Rehnquist suggested that the same logic could be used...
...running an estimated 7% below 1970. Prospects are even bleaker for the summer season, normally a busy period for Puerto Rican tourism. The once crowded, palm-fringed beaches near San Juan hotels are now lightly used and cluttered with litter; some are badly polluted. Warning signs along the Condado Lagoon tell swimmers to stay away...
Several hotels have closed or soon will do so. El Miramar and Le Petit Miramar shut down last summer. In March, the 52-year-old Condado Beach, San Juan's oldest luxury hotel, was closed with startling suddenness; guests arriving for breakfast were told by desk clerks to clear out immediately. Carrying their own luggage-the bellhops had been dismissed-the tourists tramped...