European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page m the stars and stripes sunday. July 30, 1978 Russell Baker new York not it was Jake s idea to Holiday in picturesque old quid cat tick during the festival of the lobsters. I tagged along because i had a crush on Brett which bored her. Lobsters bored her too. You re almost As Boring As lob sters dear she told me. She could t shake me that easy. If she was going to take up with some lobster Man and Start carrying on in picturesque old quid Latuck i wanted to be there to suffer and punch somebody s nose. Jake who was never bored by anything took Brett into the picturesque old streets to fish for dour but colourful old Yankee natives and caught seven on the first morning. I tagged along but had a Rotten time and did t even get a bite. To make things worse a Well oiled 225-Pound woman tourist spilled her French Fries on me while crossing the Street and left Ketchup stains on my pants. The native children who sat in the streets hooting at tourists jeered at me and i offered to punch a few of them in their noses but Brett told me that would be Bor ing. I went Back to the hotel to change pants and sulk and on the Way 1 was run Down on the sidewalk by a new yorker who was playing Chicken on a 10-Speed by. & afterwards i roamed the packed streets buying souvenir plates bearing the faces of various members of the Kennedy family Lairid watching the canny natives marking Fly prices and estimating the net Worth of each passing visitor. This is the signal for the Start of quid cat tick s procession of the plucked tourist tin which a crude androgynous wooden Fig ure Laden with wallets is carried through the town while being plucked Down to its splinters by urchins and merchants. The fevered excitement created by this in tensely spiritual display infects the Nativ a who fall upon their visitors with joyous fifties of glee and avarice. If Jake and Brett did not come Back to the hotel until Dawn. They had spent the night to the traffic Jam that had been the eve Jiang s big event in quid Catwick s narrow  old streets. I was furious and pinched Jake in the nose which bored Brett. During the night she had fallen in love with a native real estate Salesman who had promised to sell her a historic old fish smoking Shack if she could put 75.000 Down and carry a $300,000 mortgage. His thes twi my win ii tit Mhz Rand unit twi pumice ton or . Arnod forum of Vomm. To St Nond sir ton it Ami Jed in conjunction him Armod form Inman Dijon Pra Grom int Deport Mon of oof. Contents or to Sun it Mem concerning comm wow puh Killom to not Conui Lut an Ondo Romont by to of Portemont of of pm including in my Loury . A luxury cd Omar. To sure to sir Len. Apo bomb.  to Sun and so rpm. 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Jake took Brett into the picturesque old streets to fish for empty Beer cans and came Back with a full Creel and we took them out in Thi car and threw them on the natives lawns and under the cars of other visitors until Brett fell in love with a t shirt Vendor and ran away with him to get a sunburn. Jake and i followed them to the Beach and Jake fished in the Ocean and caught three plastic milk bottles. I had a Rotten time and three tourists in a Beach buggy drove by and sprayed diet cola All Over my Princeton alumni journal. To make matters worse. Brett went Back to town and fell in love with Caleb the lobster or. His reputation had attracted thousands into quid Catwick. He had fought the Brave lobsters in the most famous rings of Maine and had boasted that in this afternoon s  he would face five two and a half Pounders Manoo Clata. His craggy new England Charm infuriated me but Brett said not to be Boring. No woman could resist a lobster or she said. I Felt Rotten and suicidal and Sun Burnt and when Jake suggested i join him in the famous running of the lobsters i threw caution to the winds and plunged into the swirling mob. The scene was pandemonium As the lob sters were released into the streets for the run to their rendezvous with the lobster Dors. Jake who understood about the fish ing but not about the lobsters lost his foot ing in the crowd and the Heel of his Tennis shoe was clawed by a rampaging three Pounder. U infuriated me and i punched the three Pounder in the nose and would have punished him with Short blows to the Cara Pace but Jake told me not to be Boring. I did t go to the ring but went with a dour old Yankee extortionist who Promise to sell me some empty Beer cans which i could use to impress Brett with my skill As a Fisherman. Caleb killed All five of his lob  with such bravery and Grace that the town selectmen awarded him two claws and a Tail which he sold to Brett at half the Market Price. Afterwards the three of us ate them but Jake took the biggest claw and it made me furious with him and Brett punched me in the nose. Under the historic old quid cat tick Sunset merchants pleaded with me not to leave with Money in my purse. The Sun also rises historically they wheeled. I could have punched them All in the nose. Disposal plan offered for nuclear waste Canberra Australia a a top australian geochemist May have solved the worldwide problem of How to dispose of nuclear waste. He is prof. Ted Ringwood director of the research school of Earth sciences at the australian National University Here. His method to House radioactive wastes in synthetic Rock. He told a news Confer ence that Given unlimited funding the new process could be in commercial use in two or three years. Greece Given eight years to adapt Economy to dec Brussels a _ the european eco nomic Community s executive commission has proposed a period of up to eight years for Greece to adapt its Economy to Etc standards after it becomes a Community member commission sources said. Negotiations on membership for Greece Are expected to be largely concluded by the end of this year with membership Likely in 1980 or 1981. The commission s latest proposal will have to be approved by dec s Council of ministers before it can be used in negotiations with greek officials. Letters to the edit irritation with cafes shortages a Beautiful sunny weekend is coming up and a trip to the Woodland is called for to get the necessities together. Since i and a lot of other folks have been waiting in vain for More than four weeks now to Purchase a bicycle maybe it has come in. The cafes customer complaint Section promised it so Well see. After arriving at Woodland i discover that not Only is the Bike not there but the foil Wing items were out of Stock suntan lotion picnic furniture charcoal lighter the charcoal Supply is also running to Wcoleman camping lamp stove fluid accessories for Weber Barbecue Gills. 35mm films end a few other Nice to have items. A run Over to the Exchange proves and i should have known before i went there that the Exchange itself is out of Stock on a few items too. Such items As guest Tow Els Rose pattern out of Stock since de Cember 1977had s desert boots also out of Stock since december 1977oil of olay cosmetic suntan lotion. Eureka vacuum cleaner bags and a few other items have been on my want list for some time. Since these shortages Are occurring right Here in Munich under the eyes of cafes Headquarters. What kind of Short Ages could there be i the other exchanges throughout Usa eur it s rather evident to me that a definite Black men forget the irony of it All five Black Illinois legislators take credit for blocking passage of the equal rights amendment because it is implied they see it As a White Middle class women s is sue. Thus they effectively keep All women from being included i the constitutional right that All men in theory have Efi Joyed since the Constitution was ratified in the eighteenth Century. Apparently the Black men have forgot ten if they Ever knew that it was women the very group of which they complain that worked tirelessly for the abortion of slavery and in so doing Learned some unsettling things about their status As Whit Middle class women. The first women s rights movement was bom out of the abolitionist movement. The second women s rights movement was born out of the civil rights movement. Vio la Lizzio. White Middle class woman die working for civil rights but it looks As though that does t count. The action of the five Black Illinois legislators makes me angry. Their insets Ivity and ignorance Are bitterly disappointing like or. Martin Luther King or. I too have a dream that one Day women will be judged by the Content of their character and not by their contours that our rights will be neither denied nor abridged be cause of sex that we will be included in the american Ideal that id Are created equal that we will be afforded first class citizenship with the rights and response by . I a i would ask those five Black Illinois legislators in the words of Black author Lam Jon Hughes what happens to a dream Laurel , Germany reminder All letter to the editor up Ter. And problems exists in the Safe i Vendor departments especially i seasonal items. The majority Oft cd Are in demand now not in Winter when they Are available my suggestion to alleviate i out of Stock replies from / get a civilian competitor like j Here or somebody in the Chat Mand at gaffes to Start kicking a i Dors in the rear to get them ice Tain that cafes will j profits again. For myself. I was again availability of the items needed i on the Economy. How Many c Usa eur have experienced i lems with cafes name withe Munich editor s note _ i Rector  Europe request your observations ire True cafes Europe has i nuanced out of stocks items. A review of Merd Nambe  been made far each item boned. Rather than ust an of i Why not Contact the Monk _ manager Erich Zenker. And let i con your comp Laws with j reached at Munich Vilian i Bee is in the Perucier font store. 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