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...story is much the same elsewhere in Europe. Alpine forests in Austria and Switzerland have been denuded to make way for ski runs and cable cars. For the Conservatoire du Littoral, the French agency charged with preserving the Mediterranean coastline, the grossly overdeveloped French Riviera is the sorriest example of tourism gone awry. Not only has the coastline been ravaged by urbanization and the sea severely polluted, but tourism was down 30% last year from 1989. Pollution and overcrowding also figured in a similar drop in tourist revenues in Spain...
Despite this legacy, minorities now share in the game's broad popularity. On Southern California's public links, typically up to one-third of the players are black or Hispanic. At the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, where the initiation fee is $60,000, general manager Bill Masse says one-fifth of the 1,500 members are black, Hispanic, Asian or of Middle Eastern descent. Admission procedures are as Old Guard as at any all-white club: an applicant must be sponsored by six members who have known him or her for three years. Says Masse: "We admitted...
Five weeks after its glamorous film festival, the French Riviera town of Cannes once again becomes the scene of a major international competition. Top filmmakers from around the world -- from Argentina to Yugoslavia -- offer their work. World-class directors like Ridley Scott and Spike Lee capture the moment. Performers from Madonna to Mickey Rourke play to collective fantasies. But this time there is one crucial difference: most of the movies flash by in 15 to 90 seconds...
...most visible issue is Ryskamp's longtime membership in the expensive Riviera Country Club in Coral Gables, which reputedly barred blacks and Jews until a bylaws change last summer prohibited religious and racial discrimination. Ryskamp's membership went unnoticed in 1986, when the Senate confirmed his judgeship for Florida's Southern District. Last week the devout Presbyterian elder resigned from the club, but foes were unappeased. "The federal appeals courts usually have the last word in civil rights cases," says Johnnie R. McMillian, president of the Miami-Dade N.A.A.C.P. "Elevation of Judge Ryskamp would reduce the President's promise...
...Gott in Frankreich -- like God in France. Whatever the yardstick for the good life, at least some of it still seems to be outside Germany. In pursuit of that grail, some 800,000 West Germans have established second homes abroad -- in Tuscany, along the Grande Corniche overlooking the Riviera, in the verdant valleys of South Tirol. They have also become the world's most traveled tourists: last year some 28 million West Germans took holidays abroad...