61. Hurricane Juliette veered dangerously close to tourist resorts at the tip of the Baja California peninsula on Thursday, smashing docks into driftwood and killing a U.S. surfer. 62. Hurricane Rick hammered fishing villages and tourist resorts Monday that were still reeling from an earlier Pacific storm, then lost steam as it blew inland. 63. Hotels, restaurants and bars in the Cuban tourist resort of Varadero will accept euros starting Saturday in an attempt to attract more European tourists and their powerful currency. 64. However, most violence has been concentrated in Kingston, in the southeast of the island, and most visitors go to tourist resorts in the north and west. 65. Hurricane Fausto roared toward tourist resorts at the tip of the Baja California peninsula Thursday night, pounding the beaches before luxury hotels and threatening heavy flooding. 66. Hurricane Rick drove thousands of Mexicans from their homes Monday as it assaulted fishing villages and tourist resorts still wounded by an earlier Pacific storm. 67. In Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors led by an American conducted a surprise search Thursday of a tourist resort outside Baghdad where Saddam is known to sometimes stay. 68. In his teens he took up snowboarding, regularly visiting the skifields in the New Zealand tourist resorts of Queenstown and Wanaka. 69. In the popular tourist resort of Davos, inhabitants were warned to stay in their basements and not to venture outside. 70. Indonesian officials on Thursday denied that cholera had broken out in the tourist resort of Bali despite reports that many Japanese had returned home with the disease. |