[New-Poetry] reporters abroad

[Anny Ballardini]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/audio/world/27backstory-Bearak.mp3

Barry Bearak out of jail speaks of what happened.

_______________________
on a much lighter note:

... back in Italy, at the customs in Innsbruck, Austria, they made me pay 62 
Euros for two boxes of Camels I had bought in Philly... well visible in the 
transparent plastic bag they had given me. Funny nobody told me anything in 
Frankfurt, Germany - the guy there even commented: "how many cigarettes." 
The miserable fattish whitish guy in Innsbruck waited for me to fill in the 
form for not receiving my suitcase at the baggage claim (which will be 
delivered to me in about a couple of hours, they just called me). I scared 
the guts out of him when he got serious and I gave him my journalist card 
and told him I would write this story on the newspaper, at that point no 
fine, only the price of the cigarettes! And printed receipt of the money I 
had to give him.

He thought I was the unknowing American showing up in Europe with no 
knowledge of anything in my pony tails and stoned as hell after a night 
spent in those tiny seats over the ocean. Be careful when you come over.