European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 23, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 for some Evvans no name cars Don 7 work by the new York times the Iowa poll known in the past for probing respondents expectations of going to heaven or hell their attitude toward baldness and their favorite cold drinks has done it again it has found that one out of every nine Lowans names his or her car. Like Betsy or Betty. Or Bessie perhaps out of a reverence for the past when most Lowans had cows. In its Issue of aug. 14, the pcs Monics Register reported that 11 percent of Lowans name their cars 86 percent do not 2 percent have no cars and i percent were not sure whether they named them Ornot. The Register said the Telephone poll conducted from june 19 through 28, had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage Points. Aside from the most popular Betsy Betty and Bessie the names ranged from the negative Lemon in Sioux City. Leprosy in pcs Monics. Clunker in Cedar rapids and Junker in Clinton to the More cheerful Black beauties All Over the state and the nostalgic Choice of a 70-year-old Keokuk woman who named her vehicle tin Lizzie. Women s names predominated although Here were quite a few bombs beasts. Tanks and Torpe does. The poll found that younger people were most Likely to name their cars with 19 percent of the 18 10-24-year-Olds doing so. This might represent a trend with far reaching implications just As the National inclination toward republicanism in that age group is believed to rep resent. But it is also possible As the Register suggested. La a the practice is something people eventually grow out  until the question is asked again in a few years it will not be possible to know whether the naming of cars is a custom that is gaining or losing strength. Even so the finding represents no Mere trickle in Law key custom. After All. The 11 percent is much larger than the 5 percent who said in an Iowa poll conducted in de Cember 1977, that they expected to go to hell Al though it is far less than the 31 percent who said they knew someone else who would go there. Dealer links Castro s brother to drug shipment Miami up1 a convicted drug dealer has implicated cuban Leader Fidel Castro s brother in a 1987 co Caine shipment saying the defens minister was wailing at a cuban Mili tary Airfield when smugglers unloaded 528 pounds of he drug bound for the United states. Reinaldo Ruiz in statements to . Prosecutors also said defense minister Raul Castro s bodyguards asked the smugglers for marijuana after a cuban Mig fighter escorted the drug plane to Cuba s Varad Cro air Force base. But Ruiz did not say whether the guards actually received any marijuana. Ruiz whose cooperation with . Authorities apparently triggered the cuban government s purge of 14 top officials on drug charges this summer was sentenced monday to 17 years imprison. He admitted organizing four flights that brought More than 2,200 pounds of cocaine into the United states through Cuba Haiti and the turks and Raicos islands. Ruiz said his son Ruben was flying the plane met by Raul Castro. Ruiz s belief is that Raul Castro was part of it . Attorney Dexter Lehtinen said. The fact that he saw him there is the Best of the evidence that he  Ruiz 51, could have been sentenced to life without parole but . District judge Thomas Scott imposed the lighter sentence after prosecutor Thomas Mulvahill said Ruiz had provided valuable information about four smug gling groups operating in Cuba. Or. Ruiz More than any other individual has named narcotics groups involving High ranking officials of the cuban government Mulvahill said adding that Ruiz has also named prominent haitians. Ruiz will be eligible for parole in december 1993 but will Likely serve at least 10 years said his lawyer Fred Schwartz. Ruiz was also fined $1.1 million and sentenced to five years probation. He is expected to testify in several eases Schwartz said. The . Attorney s office is actively investigating All of Ruiz s allegations Lehtinen said. Ruiz was arrested in Panama in february 1988 and began cooperating with investigators in october. Schwartz said. The names he has Given have been turned Over to the stale department and passed on to cuban authorities Lehtinen said. Ruiz told . Investigators he paid $200,000 per flight to maj. Amado Padron Trujillo of the cuban Interior ministry for the use of the Paradero Airfield Mulvahill said. In return Ruiz was Given special clearance to land in Cuba and radio codes to communicate with cuban air Force controllers As the flights approached the Island. Also involved in planning the flights were Ruiz s Cousin capt. Miguel Ruiz poo and col. Antonio do la Guardia both of the Interior ministry and a High ranking cuban air Force officer Mulvahill identified Only As Gen. Danes. Padron Trujillo and de la Guardia were executed by a cuban firing squad and Ruiz poo received a 30-year Pris on sentence. No Public allegations have surfaced against any officer named Llanes. Automobile Burns on autobahn flames and Black smoke pour into the air from a West German car that caught fire monday afternoon on the autobahn near Rhein main a. The fire started after the car drove Over a hot exhaust system that bad fallen from another car. The system Tore a Hole in the car s gasoline tank and set the car on fire. Two persons were slightly injured As they got out of the burning vehicle. More than 35,000 Marks about $18,000 in damage were incurred said a spokesman for the Darmstadt police. No americans were involved he said. S4s u in hmm Wii or