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...Israelis see it, their proposal offers the Egyptians several concrete concessions. It would allow the Suez Canal to be reopened and leave the Egyptians free to develop the northern shore of the Sinai as far as Rafah, a region the Israelis have been eying for new resort communities. The exact eastern border would be subject to negotiation. As one Israeli Cabinet minister put it: "They have something solid here with which to convince both their people and the rest of the Arab world that they have done an honorable deal...
...last winter Morocco's King Hassan II and his trusted lieutenant, General Mohammed Oufkir, were in the seaside resort of Agadir, discussing an official visit by Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to nearby Mauritania. To the King's astonishment, Oufkir suddenly proposed that the Moroccan air force be used to assassinate Gaddafi, who had never made any secret of his antipathy toward Hassan. "If only we could find out Gaddafi's flight plan," asked Oufkir, "what would you think of sending an F-5 to smash into him in the middle of the desert...
...Baedeker of unprecedented pollution, prices, crowding and-less trying of course -exposure of skin to sun (see map). Cost? A few venturesome Italians have discovered that a 15-day tour of Eastern Europe and Russia can be cheaper than two weeks at the messy beaches of Fregene, a popular resort near Rome. Pollution? The French have taken pains to clean up their beaches; however, the Mediterranean around Spain and some parts of Italy has become a mixture of urban and industrial effluents...
Total nudity meantime has become a mass phenomenon. So many Frenchmen want to spend their vacations au naturel that the government has turned over to them most of Cap d'Agde, one of seven resort centers being developed along the "new Riviera" between Marseille and the Spanish border. The Fountainebleau of the bare set is Port Ambonne, a year-old, $4,000,000 complex on the Cap d'Agde, which has its own yacht basin and supermarket for nudists. Families have paid up to $26,000 for two-or three-room condominiums in an amphitheater-shaped apartment tower...
...frocked out in its Sunday best for a three-week international trade show called Mexpo. On hand to open the show was President Luis Echevarria Alvarez and almost the entire Mexican Cabinet. They stayed as the first guests at the $2,000,000 El Conquistador, a plush colonial-styled resort hotel (complete with a swim-up bar), built from handmade bricks and Guadalajara stone, and decorated with Mexican touches like hand-painted porcelain in the bathrooms...