European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes monday january 28,1991 a a Ftp %4 ski fsr Kph Wichit to l3t   _ a readers irate Over cafes food prices cafes is chasing away its customers the Cost of hot dogs at the cafes concessionaire a a Frank a Franks just went up a for a regular Chili cheese dog from $1.10 to $1.25, overnight. It works out to a 13.6 percent increase on the same Day your newspaper reported Congress was considering a military pay Dicrease of 4.1 percent. I watched silently when the cafes Burger King raised prices twice this year. The increase hit 20 percent for some items. That May be acceptable for some but my family no longer eats at Burger King i understand that the Cost of running a business sometimes increases. But when in a charged 13 or 20 percent More for the same thing with the same size at the same Quality i bought last week then something has to give. Something Isnit right. V 1 understand that it costs Money to sell me hot dogs. I understand that the Exchange rate is bad. I understand that employees must be paid an honest salary. I understand the reasons cafes needs to make a profit to support mar. Cafes needs to understand something too today 1 ate my last cafes hot dog a Michael r. Clarke Ramstein a Germany the argument is that cafes raises prices 5-10 percent every time the military announces a pay increase then another 5-10 percent when we actually get paid for the pay increase. That a 10-20 percent per year compared to our average 3 percent pay increase. Something is wrong with this picture v specific reference is made to pricing at the local Bur Ger bar. We see these prices every  walked into the local Burger bar to find that cafes had in fact already raised prices. The Coke that Cost me 70 cents the Day before now costs me 75 cents. Am i wrong or was 1 paying just 65 cents for that same Coke a few Short months ago that a More than a 10 percent increase in less than a year. I remember a couple of  when i paid less than $2.50 for a lunch that now costs me exactly $3 for the same items i think somebody owes us an explanation i just can t afford to do business with cafes anymore. A sgt. James Brick in Frankfurt Germany \ editors note a master sgt. Dayton p. Strickland customer relations he cafes Europe replies Gecz i really hate answering letters complaining about raising prices. No one likes paying higher prices especially me but do you think we really like raising prices Heck no the cafes Europe food Price list was reviewed and updated in March and september 1990. Adjustments were made at that time. During the same time the Cost of doing business increased dramatically in part because of the dismal value of the Dollar against local currencies. The Cost of products increased nearly 20 percent and the Cost to staff each operation Rose 12 percent. Quot a v. A. V although prices Here in Europe Arentt comparable to. Stateside restaurants Cost of doing business we conduct a stateside Survey prior to revising our prices. The Curt rent cafes Europe prices done to exceed stateside averages. A now when comparing apples to apples that is cafes Europe to european restaurants we discovered our prices Are 50 to More than 100 percent lower than on the local Economy. Please understand we Purchase a significant portion of our perishables and beverages on the local Economy with local currency bought with that dismal Dollar i spoke of earlier. As hard As we try to bring a. Little bit of Home to everyone stationed Over Here its very difficult to bring you bargain basement american prices. We share your concern and hold the line wherever and for As Long As we can. Quot \ Quot. A. My wife and i read with interest the recent trivia quiz that appeared in the a dear Abby column in the stars and stripes. She stated that four government officials sen. Rudy Boschwitz a Minn rep. Tom Lantos a Calif gov. Madeleine Kunin of Vermont and gov. Lowell Weicker of Connecticut cannot be president of the United states because As she put its Quot. Our Constitution specifically states that no person born on foreign soil shall be eligible to hold the office of the  v a. As with Many trivia questions the answer Given is somewhat misleading. What article ii Section i of our Constitution actually states is a no person except a natural born citizen or a citizen of the United states at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the office of the  difference becomes important in the Case of a child born to United states citizens living abroad we done to know the birth particulars surrounding fhe four examples while the child automatically becomes a . Citizen the child s eligibility for the office of president is not As Clear. A our understanding is that this is because the phrase a natural born citizens has never been interpreted by a court of Law. However most people would agree that the framers of the Constitution did not intend to penalize the children of american citizens living abroad. Therefore the child would be eligible for the office of president after fulfilling the other requirements a 35 years old and 14 years As a resident in the United states. The question will probably be answered the first time such a citizen runs for the office of president. My wife and i Are both naval officers stationed in Naples Italy and we Are quite interested in this question after the recent birth of our first child f a it. Michael e. Jabaly a it. Nicolem. Jabaley Naples Italy editors note a according to a previous response from Peter m. Murphy minister Counselor for consular affairs american embassy Bonn Germany your inter Bretalion of the Laws concerning a natural born citizens overseas is Correct. If a child is born in a private overseas Hospital is. A military Hospital to parents who Are . Citizens even that child would acquire . Citizenship at birth. Questions regarding eligibility for presidency cannot be Anwer cd with certainty until the supreme court interprets the provisions set Forth in the Constitution. Dear Ann Landers recently you printed a letter about How a couple of a old flames tried to rekindle their Romance but failed. You asked your readers to write about their  old flames so Here goes ten years ago i met an attractive girl at the amusement Park where we were both working summer jobs. We saw a lot of each other but there was no Romance. The following year we ran into each other on Campus. Still no Romance. We kept running into each other and i began to feel that Fate was bringing us together and maybe she. Was the one for me. I completely changed the Way i thought about her and Presto i was in love she confessed that she had been crazy about me for a Long time. On thanksgiving 1989, in my grandmothers driveway i got Down on one knee and asked her to marry me. She said yes and we were married soon after. Now we can to understand what took us so Long. It a Alexandria a. Dear Alex v-.,� v a a ainu to love grand read on. From Auburndale Fla i pulled into my Carport one Friday night after staying late at school i was a teacher and there he was. I had not seen him in 40 years but i recognized him immediately. We sat in my Kitchen and talked non Stop for five hours. He had been the victim of a violent crime and had lost his speech and most of his memory. After several months of therapy he had made remarkable Progress. The first words he uttered were my name. He got into his car drove to my Hometown and found me. We were married 10 months later the first time for me at age 63 and the second for him. We had nearly seven Beautiful years together before i lost him to cancer. Ours was a real love Story. A. . Tucson had a huge crush on Larry. He was the most popular Guy in school. Once when he smiled at me in the lunchroom i nearly fainted. He took me out a few times but nothing ignited. After graduation Larry left town most track of him but he was constantly in my dreary. At age 20 i married Jim a Nice steady Boring Guy who was a lot like Gary Cooper. All he could say was a a yup and  we had two children and sort of sleepwalker through life. On our 18th anniversary i  stand it any longer and asked Jim for a divorce. He agreed at once. To my Surprise he got married two months later. A month later i went to my 20th High school reunion and there was Larry More gorgeous than Ever and freshly divorced. We fell in love that weekend. After four months of burning up the Telephone lines and spending every weekend together we were married. At age 40 i had a son a his first child a and am now pregnant with a girl. Talk about Happy a we Are in seventh heaven f Franklin Ville . Here a my Story four years after my divorce i received a Call from my very first Boyfriend. We talked a Long Lime and he invited me to dinner. I figured id go so he could see what he had passed up 18 years before when i was 15 and he was 17. He had dumped me twice 1 intended it to be a one Date Deal just to get even. That dinner was on aug. 16, 1987. He fell like a ton of bricks that night and so did i. On nov. 7,1987, we were married. Three years and a ten of laughs later we Are still like a couple of kids. A. C creators Syndicate. European edition Quot circulation 200,000. Col Gene . Usan a. A commander publisher Bernard a. Zovistoski. A. Editor a a a a it. Col Gayle w. Fix Usa a Deputy commander. Marie Kominicki Bob Wicker of anew Mcdermott. 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