European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday september 29,1989 .1i   i  Imi irn a Muki   apathetic candidate appeals to apathetic voters from wire reports Gar Uii Bakka of Floodwood,minn., is a newcomer to politics but he figures he s bound to get a Hefly vote i next year s gubernatorial race. That s because he s running As founder of the National apathetic  a 60 percent voter turnout expected in the 1990 election Liubakka can claim the other 40 percent of the electorate As constituents. They won t vote and a no vote is vote for  the 36-year-old contractor says. The unofficial party it s known Assai has a battered Eagle As a Mascot. The Bird s neck is longer than most eagles because it s been stretched a few times. Its left Wing is clipped from giving away so Many handouts. Us Tail feathers arc lost. On the rare occasions Liubakka re moves his Tongue from his Check hell betray serious worries about the stale of the body politic. Our intention is to slap everybody in the face with ignorance the unregistered candidate said and hopefully this Blunt hint will get them out to vote  shirt of a Frog the City of Stevens Point h  at a Chance to put its Prog crossing signs Back up and the mayor even thinks he s figured out a Way to keep souvenir Hunters from slipping away with them. "1 am going to have a to shirt made of the Frog crossing sign mayor Scott Schultz said after the signs were a Post cd. Maybe if we get people to buy t shirts they won t steal the  the two signs have been missing since shortly after they were erected in july 1987 on a stretch of Road through the sch Mec Klc Reserve. Suspicious minds linked the signs disappearance with the return of students that year to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. 1 he signs were posted along two ramp that were Cut in the curb to help frogs and other Small animals Cross the Road. A City worker came up with the de sign featuring four frogs in various stages of leaping. Recently one of the original signs handful of rings Maria Ann Bohan an employee of Christie a the auctioneers in Paris wears a selection of valuable rings scheduled for Sale next month. The rings which Date from the 2nd Century to the present include one from the 19th Century Given by Pope Pius Vii to Lorenia Galeppi when he made him a Cardinal Bottom of Middle Finger. Was recovered and repaired and officials decided to give it another try. The general reaction is thai folks Are glad the sign is Back up Schultz said. The real purpose was to highlight that there is a nature  cosmonaut in Mars soviet cosmonaut Sergei Kri Kalev landed in Mars pa., wednesday and was greeted by hundreds of Young Star struck martians waving Crayon drawings and homemade soviet and american  to Mars one first grader wrote on a note accompanying a rocket ship made of purple construction paper. Kri Kalev 31, a flight Engineer who lives near Moscow visited 367 kindergarten through second Grade students at the Mars primary Center. He was joined by . Astronaut Mario Runco jr., 37, Anavy lieutenant commander awaiting assignment to his first shuttle Mission. Kri Kalev passed out photograph showing himself and his two partners during the five month French soviet soyuz Mission that ended in april. The cosmonaut in Mars for an eight Day visit and Runko were invited to the a Small Community 25 Miles North of Pittsburgh by the Mars area foundation for educational excellence. Both men also visited the Community madams intermediate elementary school for grades two through  Man put on a rubber Boot and stepped into a tray of Brown Clay the signed his name in the Clay. The footprints and signatures were scaled in Glass an marked with a plaque noting that both men stepped on Mars sept. 27,1989." in Kalv said his soviet friends were sur prised to hear of a town named Mars and an american acquaintance in Moscow had never heard of it. I could t find Mars on the map he said. "1 did t know what kind of clothes to bring because i did t know where it  Mccartney performs former by talc Paul Mccartney opened his first foreign tour in 13 years at a Community Hall in Drummond Norway about of the Way City South of Oslo. With 6,000 fans shouting we want Paul Mccartney look to the stage. Tuesday evening with his wife Unda and a tour band. The concert which kicked off a four month european tour included a heavy dose of beatles songs. The two hour show began with figure of eight from Mccartney s latest album Flowers inthe dirt and ended with a Medley from the beatles album Abbey Road released 20 years ago. Motorist s Nightmare All roads once were said to Lead torome but the automobile club of new York seems to think they All now Grin to a halt in Midtown Manhattan. In an attempt to list the 10 most congested roads in the metropolitan area the club said wednesday every Street between34th and 59th streets in Manhattan should qualify As a Motorist s Nightmare and lumped them together As one. It blamed double parking heavy pedestrian volume Lack of traffic signal coordination and Lack of off Street parking and loading zones for stifling congestion virtually any Day  one other of the nine roads winning the dubious gridlock honors was in Manhattan Chambers Street a main Crosstown route from the Brooklyn Bridge to the West Side. The rest of the roads were in the City Sother boroughs and suburbs. Stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores of betrayal revenge and love everything his readers expect from Ken Follett is Here intrigue fast paced action and passionate Romance. But what makes the pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth Century the place Feudal England and the subject the building of a gothic Cathedral. The author has recreated the crude flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The forests the walled towns the castles and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop filled with the ravages of War and the rhythms of daily life the master storyteller draws the Reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams their labors and their loves. The building of the Cathedral with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons is the Center of the drama. 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