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- THE WEEK, Page 16WORLDEt Cetera
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- TOURIST TRAP
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- Foreign visitors are no longer immune to the dangers of the
- simmering terrorist campaign being waged by Egypt's Muslim
- fundamentalists. A safari van filled with tourists came under
- a fusillade of small-weapons fire near Dairut, 168 miles south
- of Cairo. Sharon Pauline Hill, 28, from England, was struck by
- several bullets and died within 20 minutes. Two other British
- passengers received light flesh wounds. The Gama'a el-Islamiya,
- one of the most radical fundamentalist groups in Egypt, claimed
- responsibility in a brief statement given to reporters.
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- MAJOR DISCOMFORT
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- In a startling reversal, British Prime Minister John Major
- rescinded his government's six-day-old order to close 31 coal
- mines within five months. The closures would have resulted in
- the loss of jobs for 30,000 miners and staff. Faced with mutiny
- within his own party and widespread public anger over the
- callous treatment of coal workers, Major delayed the closing of
- 10 of the mines until after the first of the year. The fate of
- the remaining 21 mines awaits the results of a study on the
- future of coal mining in the U.K., not a cheery prospect in any
- case.
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