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CREDIT • COnTIDUED FROITH
rent at all without a credit card,
and luxury cars are out of the
question. Even when you can
rent a car with cash, get ready
for some red tape. You must
come armed with a drivers
license, a passport and a round
trip airline, cruise or train ticket.
Then you must put down a
$300 cash deposit and pay the
rental charge in advance. And
don’t even think about a check,
says spokesman Charles Pulley.
Plus, Pulley advises letting the
destination know in advance
that you’re coming because the
company will check with your
employers to pre-qualify you.
Why so strict?
“Our $25,000 to $30,000
vehicle is a movable asset,” Mr.
Pulley says. “In this day and age,
not to have a credit card? Who
are you? And you want us to
give you a $25,000 vehicle? It’s
about establishing credibility.”
BOOK A TRIP
If you don’t use plastic,
consider travel agents your new
best friends. Actually, says
Robert Sessions, manager of
STA Travel in Dallas, about 30
percent of the location’s largely
college student clientele pay
with cash, since many debit
cards have a withdrawal limit
and people are wary of putting
large purchases on a credit card.
The agency also accepts
money orders and cashier’s
checks, and welcomes personal
checks if they are written more
than a week before departure
for nonrefundable charges,
because otherwise “by the time
I find out that the check has
bounced, the person is already
in another country,” he says.
In addition, many tours and
packages allow you to pay in
installments after an initial
deposit.
A couple of caveats: To
reserve a hotel room, you must
pre-pay as much as the entire
stay, depending on the hotel.
Also, some discount European
airlines only accept credit cards,
Sessions says.
CHARGE A MARGARITA
So you’ve booked the cruise,
but once you’re on board, most
major cruise lines don’t accept
cash for on-board purchases —
instead cruise lines typically
keep a running tab for drinks,
spa treatments, gift-shop buys
and other on-board expenses
and charge it to your credit card
at the end of the voyage.
But you can pay cash even in
this “cashless” system, says
Vance Gulliksen, spokesman
for Miami-based Carnival
Cruise Lines. Those cruising
may make a $100 cash deposit
— the amount may vary
among cruise lines — instead
of providing a credit-card
number once on board, and the
cruise will refund any unspent
dollars at the cruise’s end.
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Scantily-clad women
adorn conservation ad
But Mexican womens rights groups decry
campaign as disrespectful objectification
Laurence lliff
KRT CAMPUS'
MEXICO CITY — Showing
some skin to reach Mexico’s
macho consumers isn’t a new
idea. Sexy women sell
everything from tools to beer.
But the use of an underwear
clad model in ads to protect sea
turtles has earned one U.S.
ecology group protests from
women’s advocates.
The “sexy campaign,” as the
San Diego-based group
Wildcoast calls it, is designed to
stop Mexican men from
consuming raw turtle eggs that
have been illegally marketed as
an aphrodisiac. The eggs are
sold on the Pacific Coast, in
Mexico City and elsewhere.
Although an estimated 14
million golf-ball-sized turtle
eggs were deposited on one
Oaxaca state beach earlier this
month, environmentalists
insist that the aphrodisiac
myth is a serious threat to the
turtles and worthy of an edgy
campaign.
One poster features
Argentine .model Dorismar
lying in a provocative pose with
the words “My man doesn’t
need turtle eggs” in large type
above her. “Because he knows
they don’t make him more
potent,” the caption continues,
above an image of three turtles
scooting along a Mexican
beach.
“No more Smokey Bear,” the
group said in announcing the
campaign this month.
The campaign uses three
posters featuring Dorismar in
provocative poses
(www.tortugamarina.com).
The posters are to be hung in
restaurants, bars and public
places beginning in September
— the height of turtle breeding
season.
There also are plans for the
ads to appear on billboards and
buses.
Mexican womens groups,
which now cope with issues
such as rampant sexual
harassment and a wave of sex
killings of mosdy young
women, want a cold shower
dumped on the “sexy
campaign.” *
“It’s outrageous,” said
Patricia Espinosa Torres, the
head of the federal
government’s Women’s
Institute, in an interview with
the Mexico City newspaper
Reforma. “It lacks the least
respect for the dignity of a
woman and places her only as a
stereotype, an ornament.”
The federal government and
the state government of
Guerrero have signed on to the
$30,000 advertising campaign
but provided none of the
money.
The Federal Environmental
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This ad reads, ‘My man doesn’t
need turtle eggs.'
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Prosecutor’s Office said in a
statement that it had “not
designed, financed nor
distributed these posters in any
manner,” although its phone
number appears on the posters
to report violations. “The
prosecutor’s office considers it
an obligation of all to protect
the sea turtle, without
offending the dignity of
women.’” - ,
Guerrero Environmental
Minister Daniel Monroy Ojeda
said state authorities could not
prevent the privately financed
campaign from going forward,
while the state Women’s
Ministry suggested that it be
“modified.”
“Such campaigns do not
need to be carried out utilizing
the image of women as sexual
objects and consumer goods,”
said the head of the ministry,
Rosa Maria Gomez, in a
statement.
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