European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Shopping at the duty free by Linda White travel editor a re duty free shops Realmoney-silvers9 yes arid noisome Oiler Good bargains some Don t. The Only Way to be sure is to know what you would pay Lor an item at Home and compare cigarettes liquor and perfume Are usually considered the Best duty free buys but  military Community members used to class i and pm prices May not be impressed by the prices. Duly free Means that shops can sell merchandise to International passengers without charging local taxes which can be stiff. The items Are free of duty in the country of Purchase but they Are not exempt from tax charged by the  customs service when you return to the states. That Means if you run Over your Standard $400 exemption you can be charged . Duty on the duty free purchases. This exemption also applies to military personnel living outside the country because they can choose to enter the country As a resident. Non residents receive Only a $100 exemption. Also be aware that countries have varying limits on the amount of liquor cigarettes and perfume that can be brought in. Duty free shops Are found in the International departure Halls of major airports and on Board scandinavian and dutch ferries. Airlines have on Board duty free sales usually with a few brands of liquor cigarettes and perfumes and other luxury items such As scarves and leather goods. Note that there will be one duty free shop at the Airport. Those other shops around it. Lull of tempting luxury goods and souvenirs Are not duty free at All. A Survey by the european Bureau of consumer organizations Early this year turned up the Best buys for booze at the Amsterdam Airport and the Best Deal on perfume and cigarettes at Athens. It reported cheap alcohol prices also on the dutch Smuz ferry system and at the Rome Airport. But Rome rated most expensive for perfume. The Survey found the most expensive liquor and cigarettes on Board the danish dds ferries and at the Copenhagen Airport. The Best buys will usually be the locally produced liquor Champagne in France aquavit in Scandinavia for example. Notice when comparing prices Erma Bombeck travellers Check out at the Frankfurt  Germany duty free shop. Of american liquor that most duty free shops sell liter bottles larger than the Standard . Fifth. Shopping at the duty free does have advantages. It can save the hassle and paperwork of applying for refunds of the value added tax. Which is considerable in most european countries. It lets you buy at the last minute without having to haul the items around for several Days. Be sure that you can carry what you buy As Well As the Luggage you brought along and checked it lets you get rid of bits and pieces of foreign currency. Most duty free shops accept Many kinds of Money. You can Only buy in the duty free shop of the country you Are leaving not entering you must show your boarding pass to make a Purchase. Something relatively new in duty free shopping is the Gap generalized system of preferences program. The program extended to july 1993, is designed to help developing countries increase Export Trade. The 140 nations participating have duty free status for locally produced items. The Only hitch is that the items must be bought in country of origin. That Means you can buy Gold Cartouche jewelry in Egypt or brass and Copper in Israel and it will not be subject to the $400 exemption granted . Travellers returning to the country. A Booklet. Gap and the traveler explains the plan and lists the participating countries. It is available from the . Customs service room 201. 6 world Trade censer. New York. . 10048. For a limited time uni Henry Community members flying Twa to the United states can get $20 Worth of duty free purchases without spending a cent. Twa is offering a special Coupon to id card holders on westbound flights from Europe. To get up to $20 off on liquor cigarettes perfume and similar items or Sale on Board Twa flights fill out the Coupon and select your Purchase. Limit is one Coupon per flight. Coupons Are available on request at the Twa Check in counter at Barbarossa Sun Tours and Sato offices and in r & r and an to guide magazines. They Are not available on Board the planes. The coupons Are Good until March 27. W e used to Call kids who drove us up the Wall children who marched to a differ ent , modern terminology has give them a name hyperactive. Whatever you Call them they re unpredictable human tornadoes who Cut a path of destruction through your life that Lew of us Ever recover irom. Seven out of 10 of them Are boys. Ask any Mother who has Ever had a child who bit the head off his pet Turtle takes the manhole cover off the Street or hangs from his heels from the to antennae it in t easy. To begin with they come out of the womb running. They bypass All those cute stages like sitting up. Crawl ing and toddling. They never Stop to eat. Sleep or rest. There is too much to do. God in his infinite mercy rarely gives More than one Squirrel kid per family. If you have two you be done something terrible to deserve it. They re not too hard to pick out. They re the children who appear in every Home movie springing up and Down before the camera like a bouncing Ball waving with both hands. They re the last ones in the car and the first ones out of it and they own All the windows. They get the Bell out of the toy in 30 seconds or less. They could traumatize Mother Teresa. What brought All this up is a letter from a single Mother in Washington who wanted to know if i had dealt with the problem. You Don t Deal with it dear you survive it. She says her son is a human Fly and at age three could scale a 10-Story building. She is the Only one in the doctor s office who in t paying any attention to the nude child turning the furniture upside Down. The Emer gency room knows her so Well they invite her to their annual Christmas party. Her silverware and dishes Are nailed Down. These May sound like one liners but i have every reason to believe the woman is telling the truth. I Al ways thought if i could Hook the Mouth of one of my kids up to a Generator he would have enough Power to monday november 25, 1985 run 12 major cities for the next 200 years. I wish i could reassure this lady that being hyperactive is something a child outgrows. No. Dear heart there s More. The Energy the curiosity the imagination the challenges Are Woven into his personality. The hyperactive Young adult will make three phone Calls during a single meal repair his own watch and put it together upside Down Board a plane during the last five seconds and have goldfish who swim around with fear in their eyes. They re set on fast Forward and i defy you to keep up with them. And yet there is something stimulating and challenging about these dreamers who break away from the family and find the empty picnic table Are the first ones in the Pool and change the to Channel Selec Tor 15 times in As Many seconds. They re different. They re an Enigma. They Don t want to miss a thing in this world. And if they marry the different drummer. Hea Ven help us. Lot Ang Lei Tymel Syndicate the stars and stripes Page 17