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...months U.S. career servicemen in Europe have been getting madder and madder at President Kennedy's order cutting off Government-paid transportation and housing for wives and children who want to be with their G.I.s overseas. Complained a European field commander in a recent message to his Pentagon superiors: "Without the stabilizing effect of a wife and children, we may be creating more social problems than we are solving on the economic front...
...tourists ever stray very far south of the California border into the long, desertlike Mexican peninsula called Baja California. Below Tijuana, where the Mexican fleshpots generally attract only servicemen, there is scarcely anything to see save for a scattering of native villages and trails. And yet, along the southernmost 100 miles of Baja, between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas (see map), is the best game-fishing ground in the hemisphere-perhaps, as some fishermen claim, in the whole world...
...servicemen are under much tougher restrictions. The code of conduct for armed forces personnel requires that if captured they give nothing more than their name, rank, service number and date of birth...
Every weekend at the big U.S. naval base in San Diego, the cry goes up: "Let's go down below," or "Let's bug out to T.J." Soon battalions of fuzzy-faced young servicemen are headed across the Mexican border, where the horses run more often, the booze flows freer, and the ladies take off their clothes at the slightest pretext. Since World War II, when...
Government cleaned most of them out as a protection to servicemen, U.S. sin centers have been relatively tame. But vice has prospered in the Mexican border towns, and today it is flourishing as never before. Of the estimated $700 million that visitors spent last year in making tourism Mexico's top industry, all but a couple of million was expended in such sleazy border towns as Mexicali, Matamoros, Ciudad Juárez and-liveliest of them all-Tijuana...