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Show THE HERALD. Provo, Utah. Sunday. January 16 Page 23. 1983 Travel - The Dark TAMPA, Fla. Continent, Busch Gardens retotal attendported a year-en- d ance of 3,077,047 visitors for a 5.5 percent increase over the park's 1981 attendance, making it Florida's second largest attraction. 1982, Where to go, how to get there and things to do lit II wdens Reports Big Tourism InereasQ history and nearly matched the attendance record of 3.1 According to William H. Thur-mavice president and general manager of Busch Entertainment Corp. of St. Louis which owns and operates The Dark Continent, the 1982 attendance n, all-ti- million in 1980. "We are extremely pleased with this year's attendance as it underlies the strength of Florida's tourism industry, even in a time of economic difficulty," figure represents the second best year in the park's 23-ye-ar said Thunnan. "The increase in attendance also illustrates the healthy state of tourist growth on the West Coast of Florida." Thunnan added that the opening of the park's new $6 million water raft ride, the "Congo River Rapids," contributed to Island, a water play park located adjacent to The Dark Continent welcomed more in Tampa than five million visitors in 1982, the attendance increases. Busch Entertainment Corp. atwhich include The tractions Old Country, Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Va.; Sesame Place, innovative play parks for children in Langhorne, Pa. and in Irving, Texas; and Adventure Tfaurmansaid. Busch Entertainment is the family entertainment subsidiary of Companies. Anheuser-Busc- h tu A Era I 1 r2a5a I fill CP .. TRANSCANAL. SAVE $1000 &Ipu .insist ALASKA. SAVE $500 SVe Money Does Talk The "Founding Fathers" of America may have passed on, but they have been brought back to life at least in song and story at Enterprise Square, USA, at Oklahoma Christian College in Oklahoma City. Four robot-typ- e figures were created by the Sally MEXICO. SAVE $400 SoW Corporation of Jacksonville, Fla. as one of 16 major exhibition areas at the recently opened SIS million educational extravaganza. In this case, the figures talk and explain the simple economic facts of our American heritage. CARIBBEAN. SAVE $400 Book your 1983 Sitmar cruise before March 31, 1983 and you'll take off with both Super Saver savings and free air Pisa May Be Leaning As a Result of Conspiracy By DICK WEST (UPI) include the WASHINGTON Re- ports from Italy distressing news that the Leaning Tower of Pisa is listing more heavily to port. Although last year's tilt angle only increased a fraction of an inch, the rate was minuscular larger than the 1981 slant increment and therefore cause for alarm. Theories abound as to why the bell tower has gotten 180-fo- ot 16-- f eet out of plumb during the past eight centuries. Thus far, however, I have not seen the tower's cant attributed to a conspiracy. Since nothing happens anywhere in the world without someone raising a conspiracy theory, I think it is time to blame the Leaning Tower's off-cent- er inclinations on international intrigue. If I were a member of the Travel Briefs committee responsible for ing the tower at least That may have been like it keepsemi-uprigh- was with the stonemasons who began work on Pisa's marble campanile in 1173. After the first 20 feet, it already was apparent that the tower was taking a diagonal direction rather than going straight up. By the time the last three stories and belfry were added in 1350, the structure was fully 10 feet out of line. Whoever was responsible for t, I would look for a Bulgarian connection. For weeks, the Mediterranean area has been in an uproar over a theory that Bulgarian agents were involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Assuming there is some validity to that accusation, it does not stretch suspicion too far to theorize that outside forces also have had a hand in askewing the Leaning Tower. I'm not suggesting there was anything sinister at work in the tower's initial bias. Anyone who has ever undertaken a project can tell you that mismeasurements magnify pro- the original veering off, it clearly would be in the interest of foreign powers to continue the tower's obliqueness. Italy, as you can see for yourself in any world atlas, is strategically located. Anything the Soviet bloc might do it distrct or destablize that country would be a big plus for the Warsaw Pact. And what could be more distracting for an upwardly mobile nation than to have one of its portionately as construction progresses. Make a tiny error in the beginning and two pieces that were supposed to fit together at the end will be several feet apart. &rupu fare to and from our Liberian-registere- d ships. 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DdSIRUT TRAVEL 373-302- 2 30 South 300 East, Provo mei major tourist attractions growing progressively more precari- - uvu O MAIDSTONE, England (UPI) -Visitors can dine in "the loveliest castle in the world" this year and include a tour of Leeds Castle. The ancient castle, rising sheer on a double island out of an artificial lake, was extended and im proved by King Henry VIII. But it d fallen into disrepair before Lady Bailie spent her American Whitney fortune restoring it. Sunday lunches are offered only through March 27 price $14.40 per person, including sherry and four courses. But there is a "Kentish evening" at Leeds Castle every at Saturday throughout the year dinner $26.40 for sherry, with a of wine, a tour of the castle and "lively local music and dancing." n r"-- rrn nor MiI Tvrvv II o I Wll MIM 1 yJKDtj if 1 HSU r-r- yry DJ 100 six-cour- se half-bott- le NEW YORK (UPI) Israel - M Tourists in SAVE can take part in ceremonies in special centers in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with the appropriate Jewish or Christian services, according to the Jewish now tree-planti- National Fund. Participants pay $7 per tree, and receive a pin and certificate. For details write to the fund at 42 E. 69th St., N.Y..N.Y. 10021 or call (212 ) 879-930- - LONDON The newly (UPI) a completed Thames Barrier mechanical marvel which will keep London from flooding by com- - off the River ?letely sealing will be a tourist site from this spring onward. barThe giant, futuristic-lookin- g rier, spanning the river far downstream from central London, was first tested in November, when the Thames was brought to a halt for the first time. When the barrier officially opens this spring, public viewing facilities will be available. It may be possible to stroll out to one of the hooded liers between which gates swing up rom the river bed SOUTHAMPTON, England (UPI) "new look" to There's a post-wthe luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 these days. She even has a new color scheme pebble gray and in red and funnel with her white, black. The ship everyone calls "the g QE2" was requisitioned for service during 1982's brief Falkland Islands war. 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