European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              4 the stars and stripes november 1964 the Cuba report Black marketing Rife despite raps editors note the Fol lowing in the second of five dispatches by a up reporter who spent four weeks in by John virtue Havana up on of the few private businesses flourishing in communist Cuba is the Black this illegal Trade started Early in the revolution and be came firmly entrenched us a result of he rationing of clothing and other everyday plus a shortage of car but it is a dangerous with both the buyer and the seller risking a jail because of he Scarcity of goods and the risks prices on the Black Market Are for meat has been Selling for is to 7 a Chicken for a cof fee for 111 a eggs 90 to m cents mens shoes for and spark plugs for 17 there is also Trade in luxury hems smuggled in from american still pop ular in sell for up to a scotch Brines 175 to in per White Chew ing gum goes for ii a the Black Market operates everywhere in Cuba in varying but it does its Best business in Havana where the most Money in the Black Market does not appear to be except in the Field of car most of which Are it is said that some Black marketeers can Promise three Horn delivery on a requested some of the foodstuff which finds its Way to the Black mar Ket it believed to be stolen from restaurants and grocery now practically All taken Over by the and from stockyards and Slaughter Rome Small Farmers prefer to sell their produce to Black marketeers Trillier than to he agrarian Ile form the Only marketing body for agricultural As the government is often the Victir in the theft of goods destined for the Black the severity of jail sentences varies according to the item involved and its the sentencing of Black marketeers is rarely but the terms lire said to run us High As 30 because of the Black marketeers keep out of sight and a would be customer must nose around before finding thin sometimes Means a cling with two or three Contact each of whom gels a Cut of the final thus adding to the Cost of dealing in the Black once the buyer his chased his be faced the difficult ask of gelling them bark to his Honor past the of he defense of which Irre is oae in every Block in the members of Ibe comm Lorr Warb All min Ings and Golgi in the Block and Are suspicious of someone carrying in a parcel which my Cal contain goods purchased on the Black government sup porters sometimes want to Deal in the Black but to Mac in the illegal Trade Are reluctant to sell them anything for tear it might be a the main goods sought in the Black Market arc foodstuffs be cause the amount of food which can be bought with a ration for 12 ounces of meat per person per is often not enough for a next the Church who who huge of communist party officials of soviet Latvia form a facade in front of a former Christian Church in the Church is now a concert photo latvian capital has Western look by John Best Latvia locked into the soviet this ancient City looks As though it belongs in Western the capital of the latvian soviet Riga is a place where Highg blvd houses Are More common thin the Square apartment blocks that characterize most soviet the apartment blocks Are hero but there mainly on the with its combination of narrow twist ing streets and spacious reminds one of Amsterdam or teacher 3 there turning to politics by Hodenfield Washington api obedient to the ancient if Yon cant lick join american teachers Are throw ing their academic Caps into the political or Val Faubus waa running in Hli ree Tecton bid against the Challenge of win Throp k a u b u pledged a minimum average teacher salary raise of the Arkansas education Asso which had fought Fau bus in the supported him and helped my teachers formed the Utah Council for the improvement of raised thousands of campaigned hard and and helped elect a governor pledged to recommend the appropriation of millions of dollars of state Aid to the in ii educators won seats in the Utah item in teachers led the fight against a mayor and City Council who consistently had Cut Back the school boards recommendations for school they helped elect a new Day govern ment More favourably All across the the teachers who once staved aloof from partisan politics Are throwing their Vole getting weight around with a Venge s there Are nearly two million of there Well Organ and they have Learned that politics can be u completely respectable teachers must Lake an Active part in miss Harriett superintendent of Montana this is part of Good citizen and it provides an Excel Lent example for miss Miller is no stranger to political she was elected to her position As a Republican in 1051 and reelected in thin finding herself us Odds with a Republican admin she switched to the democratic parly und was re elected by a bigger majority than generally teachers have limited their politicking to educational they also must lie careful not to endanger the tax exempt status miss Miller teachers must Check their political hats at the Lens room they must not attempt to persuade or influence children to their Way of political not is ready to accept this new teacher in there were protests by City officials when teachers became involved in an Effort to defeat a local referendum which would and did nut school they were told it was against the City for City employees to participate in such the National figuration association immediately protested and promised to help the teach ers fight any restrictions on their political its a fact of american life that the administration of pub Lic education is largely political the local school boards through the stale departments of education to the office of the nation is spending j23 billion for Public schools alone this and the Cost will go up a billion dollars Lobil lion when you have that kind of Money involved in any Public you automatically have education commissioner Howard Warf of Tennessee sees the increased teacher activity in politics this Way teachers have come to the realization that they alter taxpayers and there is no Good reason Why they  get involved in and every Good reason Why they Only 10 Miles up the West do Tui Rev or from the Hull of this City of gives the user a second major port hip bal it used to be a Cen Ter but that part of its existence has diminished since soviet control was established 20 years formerly there were about 130 operating churches in mainly la roman Catholic and now there arc the others have been locked up or converted to concert museums and the the rising Spires of Christian churches still arc an Eye catching Fea they May be mostly in darkness but their steeples still Pierce the sky As though mock ing the musters of the new As a result of Latvia incorporation into the user the once powerful German influence has been All but Bliter though Many inhabitants still speak another result for this land with an area of Square Miles and a population of 000 has been the forced collectivization of peeled Between 1946 und remnants of private enter prise can be found in the in such trades As dressmaking und and some Doc tors still carry on private prac hut stiff deterrent taxes arc levied on private in recent years Riga has be come a fashion some say it is the Leader in the soviet it serves As the Gateway for fashion trends from Latvia was under czarist control from 1705 to follow ing the russian the bolsheviks were unable to maintain russian grip on the country and on an Independent Republic was Independence came to an end when Latvia was incorporated into the soviet tilt loft Miu Wuu it Alt Darby Imi he Emma Ici Toi