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THE WEEK, Page 16WORLDEt Cetera
TOURIST TRAP
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.
MAJOR DISCOMFORT
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rescinded his government's six-day-old order to close 31 coal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.