The cannon on the top of Fort St.
Angelo firing at the attackers.
In Ripe for Change, published by the Nationalist Party in 1981,
it states ���While doing nothing to hamper today���s type of tourist
business, our object of policy will be to encourage a gradual
transition from quantity to quality. If we manage to do this,
and increase our takings from tourism by way of quality rather
than numbers, we shall benefit not only economically but also
culturally: higher quality tourism will improve the quality
of life of our own country.��� (p. 41). Although this book
was published in 1981, a copy of it was given to me in 1986,
autographed and dated by Fenech Adami, then Leader of the
Nationalist Party and a fervent opponent of the Labour Party
and its leaders, Dom Mintoff and Mifsud Bonnici. Fenech
Adami would begin his premiership in 1987.
HYLAND
