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By HELEN THOMAS Republicans think alike may be open another key foreign policy spot in the — sound, there are no telephones in the been transformed into a guest house.
UPI White House Reporter to dispute. But that’s another story. administration. The president has a rigorous trip to tiny rooms and the logistical pro- Of course, elevators are not a part
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) - Both Kirkpatrick and Whittlesey, Whittlesey’s complaint was that Europe planned for April 30-May10. blems are a nightmare. of palace accommouauons so the
There may be no more complaints forall their GOP credentials, she did not have access to President for reporters it will be worse. They The White House staff does not P^em+
about sexism in the White House definitely felt that they were Reagan and that her efforts-90 brief- must hit the deck running on arrival have to worry. The traveling party 59-195 -
when Linda Chavez comes aboard as discriminated against by top White ings to win support for Reagan’s in Bonn May 1. And there will be no will be in the Tulpenfeld Hotel, where Reagan has four major speeches
a replacement for Faith Whittlesey, House aides. Both said so, but Whit- anti-Sandinista policies and financ- relief until they arrive back in the press center will be located. on the trip, pointing to-post-war
director of public liaison. tlesey, who is returning to her ing for Nicaraguan rebels - were Washington. Reagan will be moving from one European reconciliation and the
Chavez, serving as executive former post of ambassador-to ridiculed. The trip, which will be highlighted historic palace to another. Dinners need to move toward free markets to
director of the U.S. Civil Rights Com- Switzerland, did not do the shouting on, aid, commenting on by the seven-nation Economic Sum- for the summiteers will be in dif- gain economic prosperity.
’ mission, opposed affirmative action, out loud. une aiue, commenting on mit in Bonn, also includes a state ferent castles everv night in Ger- m . u. . .
comparable worth and any of the Kirkpatrick s charges, was quoted visit to West Germany, a three-hour ‘ The flap over his decision to tour
other moves that grew out of the Kirkpatrick, who will undoubtedly by Time magazine as saying some side trip to Strasbourg, France, on man-a, and lay a wreath at the German
women’s movement to bring about get her revenge in a book she 18 women "suffer because they are V-E Day to address the European In Madrid, President and Mrs. Military cemetery at Bitburg has not
equality of opportunity for females, writing, on the speaking circuit and cantankerous.” Council, and state visits to Spain and Reagan will have a private dinner yet died down. Deputy press
Chavez, a Democrat, is changing in her teaching post, was stunned by No matter. Women have no policy- Portugal. with the king and queen of Spain at secretary Larry Speakes said the
her political party because, says some of the comments of the male making positions in the White House. The hardships will be many, in- their residence, Zarzuela Palace, on matter is under review, but stressed
chief of staff Donald Regan, she hierarchy in the White House that Chavez will answer to Patrick J. eluding sleeping accommodations a huge estate. that Reagan still wants to keep the
thinksand “acts like a Republican.” she Was too temperamental to oc- Buchanan, director of communica- for the two planeloads of reporters The Reagans will stay at Pardo commitment made to West German
Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane cupy high 0 fie — that she was tions. Her role will be to pick up and camermen covering Reagan on Palace in Madrid, located in the Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who ap-
confrontational. where Whittlesey left off and to con- the 10-day swing. countryside outside of Madrid. The patently wanted the gesture to prove
She felt that chief of staff James tinue the campaign to win public sup- In Bonn, half the press corps may late dictator Francisco Franco lived that former adversaries of the se-
Baker and deputy chief Michael port for the CIAsupported have to stay aboard a cruise ship on and operated from Pardo Palace cond world war were letting bygones
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VAN ATTA Now our associates Indy invented that could do the neces-
WASHINGTON — If some latter- Badhwar and Donald Goldberg sary identification, but warned:
day Diogenes were to seek the truth have uncovered the latest bad news “The performance of the system,
about the Pentagon's obstinate about LANTIRN Here's the story: even at its best, is likely to be frag-
devotion to expensive weapons that LANTIRN — Low Altitude Navi- ile and susceptible to primitive
. v r . . don’t work, the Air Force’s LAN- gation and Targeting Infrared Sys- countermeasures.”
I can i torqive my parents TIRN program would be all the tern for Night — is supposed to But the ever-optimistic Air Force
- 1 v illumination he’d need allow American attack pilots to spenders are going ahead with pur-
Dear Dr. Graham: I have prayed perience. (Some experts, incidental- Yes, you need to forgive your in fact, an internal report by the zero in -on enemy tanks during chase of the two components that
and nruvpd that I mieht be able to k have suggested that divorce is parents -Your anger will eat away at Pentagon’s own Defense Science close-support missions with ground do work, even though LANTIRN -
and prayed that I might be able to ly, nave suggested mat divorce is parents. Your anger will eat away at Board states bluntly that any forces at night or in heavy fog. Nev- as well as the $6 billion Maverick
forgive my parents for the way they especially difficult on children you like acid until you do. 1 he key is expectation LANTIRN will ever do er again would troops be left with- program — will be useless without
treated me as a child, but I just can t around the age of 12.) God intended to look at other people the way God the job it‛s supposed to is "a out tactical air support because of the essential target-recognition
do it. They divorced when I was 12 for the family to be a place of securi- looks at us in Christ. We have hurt fantasy.” Yet the Air Force contin- bad weather, as they were during device.
and never paid much attention to me, ty and happiness for children, when God by our sin and our neglect of ues to bumble along, lurching from the Battle of the Bulge in World DIPLOMATIC DIGEST: Behind
and I have been filled with anger the family is torn apart by fighting Him-far, far more than anyone can one multi-million-dollar patch job War II. the Kremlin's red-brick walls. the
ever since. I know I ought to forgive and divorce, God’s plan is not being ever hurt us. God has every reason to to the next in the desperate hope The problem of "flying blind” at Soviet leaders are engaged in their
them, but I can’t.-Mrs. E.T. fulfilled. Tragically, a husband and be angry with us-and yet He loves us that finally the system might work, low altitude was solved with an own "salt talks” - and they have
wife who are not getting along often and offers us forgiveness freely We first warned about the proba- infrared navigation pod, described nothing to do, with strategic arms
Dear Mrs. E.T.: Before I answer become so preoccupied with their through Christ. bility of a fiasco last August when by one expert as “no more than limitation.
your question, let me point out that own problems that the welfare of And that is how we are to forgive we reported on serious cost over- expensive infrared goggles mount- The subject is actually salt, the
one of the most devastating results of their children tends to be forgotten, others. “Get rid of all bitterness...Be runs and poor quality control Not ed ontothe bottom of the: plane to salination of Soviet agricultural soil
divorce is the effect it has on Divorce is not a solution; it usually kind and compassionate to one surprisingly, governmentsinspe- mountain” smashing into a from years of over-irrigation. In a
children. This is seen in your own ex- brings with it a new set of problems, another, forgive each other, just as tne (oanty of some LANTIRN But the attack planes' Sunday current saR5 talks itsrpurgesignea
in Christ a God. forgaVe you" components. punch - their Maverick missiles - chiefly to fix the blame for ruina-
!Epnesans4:3173) Open your near The warning went unheeded, and have proved to be a much tougher tion of the land. And a leading can-
to Christ, and then ask Him to help the problems with LANTIRN have problem. The Maverick is a heat- didate for scapegoat is the state
you forgive your parents. Let Christ- continued. Its testing is far behind seeking air-to-ground missile, but it radio industry
who forgave those who nailed Him to schedule, and its currently estimat- can’t distinguish between an Ameri- It promised 200 specially
the cross-give you strength to ed cost — $2.31 billion — is more can and an enemy tank a— or designed radar sets to measure the
forgive. than double the projection of four between a tank and a burning tree, moisture content of soil. But, unfor-
burning haystack, or decoys of tunately, the radars weren’t sup-
burning coal pits. .. . , . posed to monitor farmland on
There s another peculiarity of the Earth, but were intended to survey
' 1 ■ 1 ----- Maverick that has caused trouble: the surface of Venus
It stabilizes in flight and so must be _ The Reagan administration is
Dear Editor: these hazards, let it be on their cons- Bred from at least a mile away to sending some confusing diplomatic
Perhaps it is time for the city to cience, but do not do this to innocent be effective But a pilot has to be signals on Afghanistan. While prais-
discourage people “digging” in the children. within 500 yards of a target to ing the anti-Soviet guerrillas and
trash again. I can understand the Sincerely make sure he snot firing his mis- supplying them with arms, the
need of 1) retrieving an important Wanda Donelson Slh“j।an outouse ° a -anki administration also grants the Sovi-
article discarded by mistake, 2) or 1008 Lee Ora snaenmocKruP. L,, Lgo0 et puppet regime in Kabul the sta-
trving to sunolement a meager in- Altus To overcome these obviously tus of most favored nation in
trying to supplement a meager in ahus crippling drawbacks, LANTIRN trade relations
come by finding salvageable cast- requires an automatic target recog- About $13 million in imports
offs, but I can’t conceive what kind of Dear Editor: nizer that will identify the enemy from Afghanistan includes licorice
people can use small children in a In regard to the statement in part tanks for the pilot and a targeting rot. cashmere goat ham and orien
manner I would consider hazardous ”... road work has been reduced to a pod that locks the missile onto the tal rugs The $7.3 million worth of
to their health and possibly their life bare minimum ..." in The Altus tank he fires at. goods we export to Afghanistan
in these efforts. Times’ article “County government The locking device works after a includes $2.6 million in aircraft
I was walking behind a shopping expects more cuts," our roads in the fashion, but needs the automatic parts, plus cigarettes and second-
center today at noon when I saw a Friendship district have already target recognizer to identify a tar- hand clothes.
very elderly couple lifting a small been maintained at the bare get without the need for repeated _ The State Department's Kho-
child — four or five years old — and minimum level for years, as can be passes over the battlefield I Infor- meini watchers have been fine-tun-
placing her in each of several dump- verified by anyone from this area. tunately, the computers needed to ing their television sets again, and
sters behind the business to hand For years, it has been just plain make the AIK wor nave ye to be are convinced that the aged Iranian
things out to them, embarrassing for people from other inyented, sndemay Board report ayatollah is in good physical shape
I can well imagine what diseases places to visit and see the condition ( P and just as solidly in charge in
she may have been exposed to in the in which our roads have been kept, a is extremejy unlikelv that Tehranas ever. The evidence wasa
oarba". that clines inside these it is hard to visualize - short of It ,S extremely unixely. that recent TV address, in which he told
garbage mat clings mnsde mnese I is naru to visualize snon oi current approaches ... will lead to a his Deonle indirectlv that thev
dumpsters to rot notto mention a ourroads'completely ceasing to exist target autorecognition system on should not despair over the enor
possibility of small rodent bites and, - how they could be kept in much which one can rely. To the extent mous losses sustained in the war
therefore, rabies. Perhaps there worse condition. that the LANTIRN program with Iraq.
were even some poisonous chemicals Sincerely, depends upon the expectation that Khomeini's speech was seen as
in there, as from from broken con- Everett Hill this will happen, it is a fantasy ’ clear evidence that he is aware of
tainers from the stores. Rt 2 The scientists then did their best what is going on, despite rumors
If grownups are willing to risk Altus to extinguish LANTIRN. They con- that he has become senile. '
Somewhere in the world are people Adventists do not smoke, do not the general population,
exposed to an environment similar to drink alcohol, and most do not drink In essence-and at the risk of
ours, yet they are living 6.2 years coffee. . oversimplifying-the diet proved best
longer. And their secret is no longer Despite inconsistencies among for Adventists is “less fat, more
secret. Adventists, the evidence I have ex- fiber.”
These “special people” have less amined affirms that their life expec- How, in an era of fast-food
large bowel cancer, less colon fancy exceeds the average by 6.2 restaurants, does one manage a
cancer, less heart disease, less blad- years. “low-fat diet9
der cancer, less prostate cancer, less One study narrowed to the con- Adventists have been knownto
lung cancer sumption of coffee only and covering order a cheeseburger “and hold the
These.extraordinarily healthy peo- a period of 20 years revealed an in- burger.”
pie would have been all over the creased incidence of fatal colon and Some restaurants accommodate
headlines a long time ago exceptf bladder cancer among individuals vegetarians with “stuffed baked
that they are characteristically con- who consume two or more cups of potatoes” and a salad bar.
servative, careful, determined that co tee per aay. America’s 631,000 Adventists have
their own statistics be credible. egetarian.A ventists, general y, now supplied us with nearly as much
These people who have somehow havestowereblo pressure, ower evidence about “diet” as we had
managed to improve both the quality I N, u. Argied that Adventists about cigarettes when your govern-
and auantitv of their lives are our , I may.be F d that Adventists ment first sounded that alert
ano duanuuy oi mne lives are ou behave themselves otherwise. That 1. .
own nation's Seventh Day Adven- their reliion tends to reduce Yet most of us, including some
tists. debilitating^emotional stress as well. Adventists, know better than we do.
Their religion since its beginnings We can’t prove that yet, This we Understandably-and statistically-
has emphasized self-discipline. can prove: ’ -lifelong Adventists have a head start
Complicating statistical studies Adventist women with breast toward longer life. But parallel
are these variables: Only about half cancer are less likely to die from it. studies reveal proportionate health
of Adventists are vegetarians and The risk of death due to ischemic benefits to the “late starters.
the vegetarians are divided into hert disease among Adventists, So we can live longer starting now-
three categories. male and female, is half what it is for -if we want to.
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