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...government and private agencies dedicated to exposing links between Europe and the child sex trade in Bangkok. Last year the group disclosed the existence of a Swiss network of airline-ticket agencies catering to European pedophiles; one was shut down. Then last August the task force focused on Lauda Air, the Austrian-based airline owned by former auto-racing champ Niki Lauda, for running a caricature in its in-flight magazine that allegedly promoted child sex tourism...
...Lauda Air reluctantly agreed to withdraw the offending magazine from circulation, saying that the cartoonist's intention had been misinterpreted. Was the illustration a come-on aimed at pedophiles? Let the reader judge: the ad consisted of a mock postcard. On one side was a drawing of a bare-breasted little girl in a heart-shaped frame with the inscription "From Thailand with Love." The greeting on the back, signed by "Werner, Gunter, Fritzl, Morsel and Joe," read, "Got to close now. The tarts in the Bangkok Baby Club are waiting...
Last month, in a remarkable comeback from a 2½-year layoff, two-time world Formula One Champion Niki Lauda won the Long Beach Grand Prix. The layoff had been voluntary. The little Austrian simply stepped out of the cockpit one day and announced, "I have lost the desire." Lauda could no longer bring himself to take the car "to the limit, as I am supposed to do." So he quit...
Nobody would say Lauda lost his nerve. "Desire" is the right word. In a fearful and fiery 1976 crash in Germany, Lauda's helmet had been ripped off, his left ear burned off, his lungs seared; he was given the last rites. Six weeks later he drove again, and one year later he was champion again. Then Lauda walked away. Why did he come back? "The challenge," he said...
...Niki Lauda, who had raced once before when he thought it unsafe and nearly died, would not go to the edge with Hunt this last time. "For me," he said, "it was the limit. For me, there is something more important than the world championship...