KAUNASTop European officials have been traveling across Lithuania in an effort to drum up enthusiasm in the run-up to the May 10-11 referendum on EU membership, a whirlwind tour that left EU Commissioner for Enlargement Guenter Verheugen literally hanging in the air. President Rolandas Paksas, an accomplished stunt pilot, followed up on an earlier promise to show Verheugen the country from the cockpit of an acrobatic plane during the April 24-25 visit.However, a few minutes into the flight, the escape hatch above Verheugen accidentally blew open."I told him what to do to close it," Paksas t...
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