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Dozens of tourist agencies cater to this clientele, which is made up of both pedophiles and pederasts taking advantage of lax law enforcement in Third World nations. Pederasts in particular have lots of help in finding a good time in Asia, Africa or Latin America. Numerous gray-market publications and computer networks provide information. One of the most notorious guides to world sex spas for homosexuals seeking boys is called the Spartacus International Gay Guide; available since the 1970s, it is now published in Germany in several languages...
Ruler means subject. (Anyone who is a member of a royal family is, by law, subject to the nation. Thus the princesses of Britain, say, are employees of the people, used as tourist attractions and given free board and lodging in return for affording the rest of us some entertainment. You may remember how the old kings -- like Henry V -- used to spy on their subjects; now it's the subjects who spy on their rulers. Dieu et mon droit...
Since World War II, art vandalism has been relatively rare, and always (so to speak) personal. When a deranged Hungarian-Australian tourist named Laszlo Toth attacked Michelangelo's Pieta in St. Peter's with a hammer in 1972, it was because he believed himself to be the son of God. When the future art dealer Tony Shafrazi vandalized Picasso's Guernica in the Museum of Modern Art in 1974, he moronically fancied he was making a point about art politics...
With next year's Winter Olympics in Norway, the stakes for the tourist ^ industry are higher than ever. Another whaling nation, Iceland, has already quit the IWC but has not yet resumed the hunt for fear of the reaction from environmentally oriented tourists. This suggests that the real power to control whaling lies less in the IWC than in the pocketbooks and votes of consumers around the world...
...Berlin special-education teacher Barbara Meller Jensen strayed off I-95 near Miami and was brutally murdered in front of her children in a "bump-and-run" robbery, German Consul General Klaus Sommer considered warning other Germans away from the city. Jensen was the sixth foreign (and third German) tourist killed in Florida since December...