European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 3 the stars and stripes monday january 13.19b6 to us Egypt s american tourist Trade is one More victim of terrorism Cairo Egypt not american Louism in Egypt has been All but destroyed by the recent wave of Middle East Turro ism drilling a severe blow 10 the country s already Hal tired Economy according to Trade Industry experts. Right now 95 percent of our american reservations Are being cancelled even into 1987," said Kami Fiat a travel agent whose company deals largely with americans the problem is quite serious beginning Witti the Twa hijacking the hijacking of a trans world airlines plane to Bei rut Lebanon fast june by shiite moslem gunmen was Only the first of a series of incidents including inc hijackings of the italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in octo Ber and of an egy Plair plane 10 Malta in november that frightened americans away from vacations Here. Tourism which is estimated id bring in about $1 billion a year is the fourth largest source of foreign Exchange in Egypt behind the remittances sent Back by egyptians working abroad ail Revenue and fees paid by ships using the Suez canal. Further it was the one to i Hilly Brahl so in the country s Economy which is being harmed by the Oil glut. But an saturday afternoon he pyramids just South of Cairo were almost completely devoid of Western tourists. The Small crowd of several Hundred people some of Ojiem schoolchildren playing soccer a i the base of the Tomb was almost entirely egyptian. Both the government and private Industry have been putting a considerable emphasis on autism. Several luxury hotels have been built in recent years and other facilities improved including spectacular Mediterranean and red sea beaches. China communist league has 52 million members peking a seventeen pict no of China s 100 million people aged 14 to 28 belong to the communist youth league the league s monthly bulletin reported today. The Gigli in a Ngugi journal chinese youth said n total of 52 million people Are registered in More than 2 million youth league brunches run by 210,000 full time officials. The publication described the league founded in 1922, As a school where Large numbers of Young people team about communism through the chinese communist party has 41 million members Many of them former youth league members the tragedy is that Fig pics for january 10 june show that this would have been one of the biggest seasons they Ever had said a Western Diplomat who has studied the decrease in tourists. The statistics started la change drama to Carly Afler the Twa the weeks around Christmas when the weather Here has some of inc eel of an Indian summer in America is the High season for tourism particularly for the luxury cruises along the Nile to the Temple at Luxor and other historic Sites in upper Egypt. But travel agents and government officials say the Achille Lauro and Egypt air hijackings in which Ameri cans were shot dead brought a wave of cancelled reservations. The immediate Impact of those two incidents caused us to lose 60 to 70 percent of our american business said minister of tourism Fauad Sultan. He said Egypt had hoped to attract 250,000 american tourists this year. Sudan said about 20 percent of european tourist visits which he estimated at 700,000, had been lost because of the terrorist incidents. Arab tourism mainly from the persian Gulf does not appear to have been affected Industry sources said. Fiat the director of Meco travel said one lucrative Field the had been affected was incentive Tours in which automobile dealers or insurance agencies give salespeople trips for reaching sales targets. Egypt had become what one economist described As a hot item for such prizes. La s usually advertised a year or is months in Advance so they can set their goals and right now nobody in Amer Ica wants to come Here Zial said. The profession can sell Egypt is usually a once in a lifetime a Eavion Destina Tion there Are few repeal tourists according to govern ment figures often by retired people on package hours it s Good traffic a travel agent said. The americans normally slay at least a week. The majority Are Over 50, and they Are Good spenders. And the spending on an incentive tour is much higher than average la s a fal of business lost Mary coaster of Rah voyages another company with a Large american clientele said the american Market is really Down right now. We be lost 75 to 80 percent of our bookings for sore. Americans end to see this whole area As one big conglomerate they Don t see Ilas separate she added. But la s not jus the Middle East. People Are laying we Don t want to get on a plane we Don t want to to into an Airport terminal that s primly world t disabled soviet sub spotted being towed in East China sea Tokyo up japanese patrol planes spoiled 1 Ulivi blvd soviet cruise missile submarine saturday Beau Lowed in the East China sea award the soviet Pacific Fleet base officials maritime self defense Force identified he Ming. Rinc Ai a nuclear powered vessel and indicated la May Nave had a malfunction. The 6 000-ton submarine is equipped to carry cram be Mac Silas thai could be used against american aircraft camera. The submarine was spoiled Early in the afternoon Bete towed on in surface by a 4,050-ton Salvage Laid. Tin ships were spotted 280 mites North Wisl of Okinawa in inc Enst China sea headed toward the Tjun Blomi Strait which leads to inc sea of Japan and Trie soviet Pacific Fleet base Al soviet support ship was headed North with the two officials said station Wagon crash in France kills 6 w. Germans injures 2 Bourg St. Maurice. France a a station Wagon carrying West germans Felt about 270 Yards into a Ravine killing Sis per i a including a child and injuring the iwo of hers in the vehicle police said saturday. The Accident occurred Friday evening Between Bourg is. Maurice and the ski station of us arcs in the Savoie Region of Eastern France. Rescue workers alerted by a passing Motorist searched for hours to recover the bodies. Light Snow covered the Mountain Road at the Lime he gendarmerie said but the exact cause of the Accident was not and an investigation was underway. Mitterrand gives partial Pardon to brother of culture minister Paris a president Francois Mitterrand granted a partial Pardon to the jailed brother of France s culture minister reducing s 12-year prison term for murder to 10 years a Justice ministry official said saturday confirming press reports of a Pardon the official Laid i a i Claude Lang brother of culture minister Jack Lang received a two year dispensation of Liis 12-year jail term nov. 14, he was one of inc 300 to 300 prisoners who Benefit each year in France from a presidential Pardon. Claude Lang was sentenced in october 1983 by a court in Nancy in Eastern France to the 12-year term after being convicted of homicide. He has been jailed since Juno 1931, following the stabbing death of a Man in a bar during an argument. The official asking not to be identified by name said that Claude Lang will be Able to apply for conditional Freedom in june. Briton urges ban on Farrakhan because of anti jewish remarks London a a member of parliament saturday urged the government to ban . Black moslem acl lilt Louis Farrakhan from making a planned visit to Britain next month. This Man has a very bad record of anti jew Isri remark in the United Stales which have Beer widely publicized,11 wafd Tony Latham a member of the Ruline conservative forty and chairman of he British Israel parliamentary group Farrakhan has been invited Here by the Hackney Black people s association. Hackney is a Borough of London with a Large population of Black and asian descended britons. He is also expected to address an islamic group. Soviet television show features film clips of Samantha Smith Moscow up the soviet Union saturday broadcast a space Ridge television program devoted to the tale Samantha Smith the Maine schoolgirl who via a sued to the soviet Union by president Yuri Andropov. The space Ridge program titled we wish you Hap piness was taped last december and linked Minneapolis minn., and Moscow. U featured film clips of the american girl s visit in the summer of 983. She died in a plane crash last August Al the age of 13. She was invited la the soviet Union after she wrote � letter to Andropov asking Why Moscow wanted 10 can guar the world. The late president replied that was not the soviet goal and asked her to come to the soviet Union and Sec for herself. The Poitr top satellite linkup included about 600 Stu dents on both sides and it was hosted by journalist Don Shelby and Singer John Denver on the american Side and Vladimir Posner in Moscow songs were Sung poems were read and skits portraying a new world in which both sides lived in peace were acted out
