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Article: Strange Pilgrims.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- November 15, 1993
- Author:
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1993 American Labor Conference on International Affairs. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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TRAVELING through Scandinavia a couple of summers ago, my wife and I signed on for a three-day tour of Norway's southern fjords. As the group assembled in the lobby of a Bergen hotel I noticed that, except for an Australian couple, our 30 fellow travelers were all speaking Spanish. We assumed that they came from Madrid, and by most measures. their designer clothes, their attentiveness to the tour guide, the video cameras they shouldered --you couldn't distinguish these people from the rest of the burgconing European middle class. But just hours into the tour, it was evident that amid the uniform troupe there were six free spirits. They argued with gusto, laughed from their ...
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