European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 stars and stripes monday March 2 Day quote oath Day there is no Joy no no party Here charges Are not convictions 4 and convictions will not bring Back Sean the Rev Al Sharpton on the indictment of three Nype officers in the november shooting of a Man at his Bachelor party see Story on Page 8 list top handheld games for March 1 Ratchet and Clank size matters pop 2 Metal gear solid portable Ops pop 3 final fantasy i Advance game boy Advance 4 the warriors pop 5 Cas Levania portrait of ruin Nintendo is 6 lunar knights Nintendo is game informer Magazine coming soon scene on sunday love hotels in Japan today in stripes Abby 15 american roundup1617 classified2023 comics1315 crossword14 horoscope13 utters18 opinion 1819 sports2332 weather12 your money11 hitchhiking is Best bet in Cuba Havana Laura Garcia Doest have a car and the change in her pocket wont cover a 15cent bus fare but standing by a crumbling overpass sweating in her shorts sunglasses and skimpy top the 18yearold says a free ride is Only an outstretched thumb away people will take you you can always find Drivers to help said Garcia who studies Law in Havana and was going to see her parents in Pinar Del Rio a 90minute ride West hitchhiking is a in the news the associated press Way of Hie in communist Cuba where cars Are scarce a gallon of Gas costs a third of a civil servants monthly salary and Public transportation is unreliable and overcrowded lately things have worsened with even act ing president Raul Castro admitting in de Cember that Public transport was practically on the Point of collapse last year the government announced the Purchase of 7000 buses from China and hundreds More chinese buses Are said to be on the Way since Castro took Power from his ail ing brother Fidel in july meanwhile the hitchhikers Are everywhere at Street Corners crosswalks Stop lights most Drivers believe its their civic duty to give free rides but sometimes a Hitchhiker will hop in uninvited Janeth Gonzalez 20 who climbed into a car stopped at a Light told the stranger at the wheel that she was headed to her Home in downtown Havana cubans Call hitchhiking Pidi Endo Botella or asking for a bottle an age old cuban phrase connoting something for nothing Melba an 18yearold dance student still in her Black tights As she hitchhiked from school said she had been hitchhiking alone since she was 14 preferring not to give her surname she said the Only problem she Ever had was when the car that picked her up Side swiped another and she was delayed for two hours while the police sorted out blame it would have been faster to take the bus that Day she said but it usually int while aging school and passenger buses from Canada Russia and eur whats up with that explaining customs from around the world q a few Miles away from Aviano air base just outside the town of Cellini theres a commercial Jet propped up in a Field whats up with that a while there have been some instances of planes having to make forced landings in such places that int the Case with this particular Jet Rino Demarco purchased the plane which still sports a italia colors and logo at an auction in Venice and had it transported to his Field about 20 years ago with the help of a helicopter and some trucks while Many passengers generally put plane and Good food in the same sentence this might have become an exception if the wheels of the italian bureaucracy moved a bit quicker according to his grandson Demarco had planned to make the plane into a pizzeria and Galateria but it took about a decade to get a permit to operate such a business from the photo illustration by Noga and stripes local commune and by the time he got it he decided he didst want to put Forth All that Effort any More so the plane which looks today like it needs a Good Bath sits on a few supports while the family figures out what it wants to do with it a Pavilion built near the Tail Sec Tion overlooks a sports Field and the Only passengers Are in the cars that drive by a Road that runs by just a few feet from the planes nose got a question about going son Europe email stripes at a woman Hitchhiker last month on a Highway outside of Havana rope Bounce along to Uncertain schedules on havanas potholed streets More common Are 18wheelers known As Camellos or Cam Els because of their humped Metal trailers and ability to pack in 200plus sweaty Passen Gers seated or clinging to ceiling bars awaiting a camello after a night shift at an Energy Plant Nestor Perez a 40yearold in a Cleveland indians shirt said hitchhiking is More comfortable than the that Hes at a disadvantage if i have a pretty woman standing next to me they will always Stop for her he said its a waste of time for me puzzles by Papp com i difficulty medium fill in the boxes so that each Row column and 3by3 Square includes the digits 1 through 9 for solution tips and computer program see yesterdays 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