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...recent film fame with such offbeat ventures as a 15-or 21-day trip, "In the Footsteps of the Mahatma," tracing Gandhi's life (at $85 a day), and vacations at The Lake Palace hotel in Udaipur, where parts of Octopussy were shot. Australia and New Zealand are enjoying a tourist boom, thanks to Yanks. Luxury liners expect to draw 15% more passengers than last year, and boast that 40% of the Love Boat crowd nowadays is under 35. There is an ever wider choice of far-out adventure vacations: trekking in the Himalayas, gorilla watching in Rwanda, bicycling...
...Sharon Mann, 23, a drama student in a formerly yellow blouse. Aleyda Warren, a Londoner who had been visiting friends in Connecticut, figured that she had spent $100 during her four days in line. Other standbys were cheerful: Bill Lockyer and his wife Joy, a retired couple from New Zealand, had seen a Broadway show (Elizabeth Taylor in Private Lives) with the money they would save on People. A bargain, said Lockyer; if they lost out on the Saturday plane they would line up the next...
...scuffed grass of the All England Club's Centre Court began its annual post-championship airing out, this year's Wimbledon winners, John McEnroe, 24, and Martina Navratilova, 26, were being toasted during the post-tournament dinner at London's Savoy Hotel. McEnroe, who crunched New Zealand's Chris Lewis in the straight set men's finals, had even worked on his backhanded temperament, going so far as to shake hands with the umpire and referee after one match. "I think I've made a conscious effort to get along," said...
...America came near the end of a 25,000-mile, 19-day world tour that took him to Port Moresby, Jakarta, London, Paris and Geneva before he arrived in Washington. On the final leg of the trip, Hawke strongly reiterated Australia's commitment to the 1951 Australia-New Zealand-United States (ANZUS) Security Treaty for the defense of the Pacific. He pledged that there is no country that the U.S. "will be able to rely on more than Australia." In a speech before Washington's National Press Club, Hawke added: "Australia is not and cannot be a nonaligned...
...problematic, because it is difficult to elicit funds for a cause whose effectiveness cannot be documented, Carstens says. Nonetheless, the IDAF raises millions of dollars a year that make their way to South Africa. But of the 10 national committees--in England, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, New Zealand, India and the U.S.--the American branch contributes the smallest amount, last year about...