European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Russell Baker Friday May 27, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13 new York not until a Lew years 5pfej?t happened As a Usu of them were Hodgen does. Like London and Rome which Aiso jut Hap Penett occasionally you might run into somebody who had been planned like Washington . These planned people were the products of planned parenthood. Their parents had sat Down with architects. The architects had shown them blueprints of Beautiful families in which All the siblings would be As neatly spaced As the Oaks on a Washington , when the siblings were All precisely spaced in their assigned spots on the Calendar they were very much like people who had just happened except for a ten Dency to think of themselves As siblings. Where the old Kings had hated their Broth Ere and Sisters As rivals for the throne and hired thugs to dispose of them these people hired psychologists to dispel their sibling a result. Erica Jong replaced Wil Liam Shakespeare As the chronicler of humanity s foibles. Otherwise the emergence of planned people had Little effect. Now however family architecture has become fancier. For $40, a couple plan Ning a person can buy a gender selection kit which its marketers assert make sit possible for parents to assign the sex of their Choice to their Little is hard to guess what the upshot of will be. Historically men have decide what kind of car the family would have and women have had the last word on sofas an refrigerators. How will it go when they sit Down to decide whether the person on the drawing Board will be mate or female a feminist tells me that mate ego will prevail that the country will end up with a vast surplus of men and women will be i huge demand. I Don t know. My guess is that a lot of productions will never get of the drawing Board on account of the plan ners deciding to get divorced rather tango on fighting about whether they ought to create a Man or a woman. In View of childrens natural disposition to frustrate parents we can also look for a big Boom in sex change surgery particularly during the adolescent years of the planned generation. Nowadays a Youngman who hates his family s insistence that he go to College and become a lawyer Hasto drop out of school and become a Tanner. In the future he will be Able to Send the old folks up the Wall by going to Johns Hopkins thes european edition col. Illy e. Spangler. Us cd Hor Uva Kummu. John c Taylor. Usan. Do put Edwrd a vol Mert Proctor. Mayo gang editor Elmer o. Frank production Mugar Henry s. Epstein.T. Circulation manager Tim Nam paper it an it Norland Uno Iclal pull Lutko Lor . Armod Force Owr was. 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Unit 0"nnaf.common Civ 447u, Mali Una Juu and becoming a would be interesting to know what it feds like to be a fully planned your sex determined by your parents of course is surely Only a primitive beginning on the intricate architecture which biology will make possible in another generation or so. Before the Century is out science will probably enable parents to decide not Only what size and shape their productions will take but also How right they will be and what careers they will pursue. Most people will probably go for very smart mildly acquisitive doctors and Law yers. Economically could Lead to Awell balanced nation with the lawyers suing the doctors for outrageous sums an the doctors recovering their losses by charging the lawyers fees which the know Al too Well the traffic can Bear. If we could anticipate a perfectly close Economy with the Money circling from doctors to lawyers and Back again the country would be too occupied with suing and suturing to be subject to the fits of unhappiness it now suffers. Unfortunately there is always somebody who rocks the boat to Paradise. Imagine for example a Man who has been totally planned by a pair of parents who think they have a great sense of humor. He has come off the blueprint to their exact specifications and is the com plete fulfilment of their dream to play a Good joke on the world. As a result he snot very Bright has no Talent for either courtroom or Hospital and not much inter est in anything else. If you Are in Pickle nowadays almost people Are there s not much to do about it but blame god or Fate. In the new dispensation parents will have replaced these Invulnerable objects of Man s disenchantment. I think the person in example ingoing to make a very loud fuss about parents being to blame for the mess the worlds in. And i think a lot of lawyers who Are suing doctors 18 hours a Day and a lot of doctors who Are extracting lawyers Gall bladders until Midnight Are going to Star listening to him and that the lawyers Are going to Start asking Why they have Rostand around in Musty old courtrooms All their lives and the doctors Are going to Start asking Why they have to spend their lives up to the elbows in iodine and that everybody is going to say it s parents who made Many persons say now of course but without real conviction knowing the joker is really god or Fate or something equally impervious to a kick in the pants. When parents become god or Fate the will get to know what angry is. Woman sees husband kids carried to death in Lake a train Mich. Up a Youn Mother watched As her husband and two children were pulled under by currents atthe Mouth of the a train River and swept to their deaths in Lake police said the father was carrying his son and daughter while wading in the water when he lost his balance. All three were quickly carried into the victims were identified As Michael Bruni 31, a noncommissioned officer fro Buffalo n.y., stationed at Kincheloe fab near saute sle. Marie his daughter. Lisa to and son Michael jr., 4. A state police spokesman said Bruni s wife Mary 28, helplessly witnessed the tragedy from the Shore. Bonn Luxembourg of pact Bonn up West Germany and Luxembourg signed a territorial Border de sense defense minister Emile Krieps and West German defense minister Georg Lebr signed the agreement. Letters to the editor teacher wants to get unstuck having been desirous of an assignment in Europe since making initial application into program in 1969,1 try to follow the activities of Dod schools As much As Possi ble through school publications and also Sis. One of the be quintly recurring topics has been the question of benefits for local hire teachers. Having just read the recent Arti Cle entitled four resolutions approved by i immediately flew into another of my frequent rages and decided it is about time another Corner was heard pts resolved to push for equal benefits for local hire teachers citing As their reason As quoted in Sis that a serious morale problem exists inthe dependent schools among teachers As a result of the current it further goes on to say that the morale problem is hurting the effectiveness of locally hire teachers and the entire school in securing for All children and youth the highest advantages in physical mental social and spiritual education Well is All Tine and Good from some Points of View but i would like to Point out How it looks from another. Where the local hires accepted those jobs the did so with the understanding they were not entitled to these i accepted Job i did so with the understanding that by serving time in an isolated area i would be Able to to Transfer into other areas. There is an Ever increasing number of Dod teachers that have been stuck in isolated areas forgive six seven or More years. We Are unable to gel our much deserved move be cause of the hiring practices that prevail in Europe where jobs Are Given to. And eve held for these local hires or tourist hires who have circumvented the recruit ing Channel in , which also staffs the isolated areas and moved directly into an area of their recently negotiated contract pro Vides these people a Means of getting into the system by applying for a Transfer to a hardship area. I wonder How Many applied for a tour in an isolated area and a so doing indicated a willingness to earn you Way to the More desirable areas like the rest of us Are trying to do the recently completed Transfer pro Gram consisted of 37 vacancies in the at lactic Region 49 in Europe and 63 in the Pacific. Considering that approximately 79per cent of our schools Are in the european areas causes me to wonder a Little Andom Given cause for even further amaze ment by finding that there was Only on English vacancy Junior High and Only one math vacancy senior High reported from Germany and none in the rest of the european amount of reported turnover sure does t seem to be consistent with the complaining i hear. I would like to beg All teachers who were aware of uncommitted vacancies in your school prior to april is to write Anklet me know about them. By the Way if any of you a desiring change of scenery there Are a number of us Here at Lajes that would gladly Trade our five to 10 years of Island experiences our Job our 10 per cent differential and even throw in our car and boy room for a Chance to experience some of your prob lems. Zanegood Roules Field azores Mooij or a Bice Subu asm Lviv the a Tam Elk a in touch with the world. 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