
Aruba boycott over missing teen case may spread to Philadelphia
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AP Friday, November 11, 2005
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A call for tourists to boycott Aruba over the Caribbean island's handling of the Natalee Holloway disappearance may spread to Philadelphia.
Two Philadelphia city councilmen planned to introduce a resolution last night asking their colleagues to endorse the boycott called earlier this week by the governor of Alabama, the missing US teen's home state.
Supporters of calls for a national boycott say Aruban authorities mishandled the investigation into Holloway's disappearance. The 18-year-old was last seen on May 30 with three young local men on the final night of her high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island. The three men were arrested but later released.
The missing teen's family have said the Aruban authorities mishandled the investigation by not taking it seriously in the days after the disappearance, not pursuing promising leads and ignoring potentially incriminating statements from suspects.
Aruban Prime Minister Nelson Oduber has said investigators have done their best to solve the mystery and that it is not fair to punish the island, which is heavily dependent on tourism.
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