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Schroeder May Cancel Italian Vacation After Insult [Loud Blondes] July 8 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder threatened to cancel his vacation in Italy planned for next week, after an Italian official opened a new rift between the two countries' governments by insulting German tourists. Stefano Stefani, a junior minister for tourism in Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government, called Germans ``uniform and loud blonds who invade Italian beaches'' in a letter published in the newsletter of his party, the Northern League. They take part in ``belching contests after consuming pantagruelian quantities of beer,'' he said. Schroeder's vacation plans are...