European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes january 1978 does his Baton thing big Man in social twirl by Lucia Gimardo staff writer Span Dahlem Germany the women liberation movement has made inroads not Only for but also for an air Force sergeant of the opposite sex Loy a 24yearold from said the movement has Al Lowed him to come More out of the closet when it comes to enjoying his Hobby of Baton the who is a dental technician at the clinic won the local 1976 Talent contest and then the no musical Potpourri category and third place Overall in the 1977 Safe Talent contest with his Leatherman performs upon but Doest generally seek performances be cause of harassment he receives about participating in what some consider an effeminate he Back in the when twirling got twirlers were mainly maybe it want considered Kosher for women to jump up and Down in front of crowds Back Leatherman he got his Start in twirling when he was 17 by teaching himself through error and grandmother gave me a Baton when i was quite when i was a senior in High i started teaching Catherman lie Only began performing for audiences since coming into the air Force four years a recent performance was at a German american Folk fast sponsored by the army in Berlin last Baton is relatively not known in according to he usually twirls one or two Batons at a recently added a sword to his act and sometimes uses fire the Only thing that is dangerous is if youre wearing Loose if you keep it you wont get the Only thing Ive done is singe my Leatherman although he attempts to perform with out a if Catherman does make a he tries to pick it up easily without looking disgusted to the Leatherman Doest consider himself an expert but a show who makes Large movements that Only look he is instructing an 11year old girl in the classes started at the dependent youth activities Center and his present Pupil is the Only one who stuck through his rigorous leather Man he tries to get in one to two hours of Baton practice at least three or four Days a in since Catherman has been taking Ballet and dance which have now taken priority in his he plans to return to school after leaving the air Force and after some inquiries in the was surprised at the number of universities that offer degrees in Ballet and some schools require Only women twirl cars in their Baton but leather Man also intends to audition for several schools in that he added that dancing has helped with the Baton twirling because it makes me a Little More aware of where my body is and its a member of the Eifel Leatherman did his first Ballet performance to several songs from the nut Cracker suite in a recent Christmas he considers himself to be mostly into improvisation and jazz the main thing against me is my when you reach the Ripe old age of your Bones set and Arent As for Leatherman recently competed for a position in a German dance class and was told he was too the pro Fessor said he didst let anyone in Over Catherman said he Only wants to dance for two or three years and then study horticulture and get into Nur Sery panel Likely to hear Park Seoul a Korpan lobbyist Tong Sun Park is Likely to testify before congressional committees about his alleged influence buying on Capitol prosecutor Paul Michel said he also said that questioning of the 42 year old Rice dealer will take a Good part of next week at the minimum and maybe Michel spoke to reporters after a six hour session with interrogation began a week ago under a Accord for obtaining Parks testimony for Justice department Michel declined to give a direct answer when asked what would happen if a con Gressional subpoena is served on Park when he is in the to testify before american he i think in All likelihood Park will be available under some appropriate arrangement agreed to by All concerned to testify in front of con Gressional he said he understood that a request by the House ethics committee to have Park testify to congressional investigators was being discussed Between american and korean committee members have warned that Aid to South Korea might be jeopardized unless Park the agreement of 31 stipulates Park will testify Only in Justice department and the House committee has objected to this arrange Michel said transcripts of Parks Testi Mony in Seoul would be provided for con Gressional and he believed they would be very helpful to congressional Loy Leatherman dancing helped Michel said the important part of the current session is that Park for the first time is providing firsthand information about people and matters suspected to be involved in the More than 20 former and present con Gressmen have acknowledged that they received Money or other gifts from Park but denied any Park has been indicted by a Federal grand jury on 36 counts of mail fraud and other charges for his alleged Effort to buy Flavois from congressmen for the Seoul Italy reds press coalition demand Home api the communist party renewed its demand for a place in the ital Ian government rebuffing a veiled overture from Premier designate Giulio Andreutti for renewal of the support it gave his last minority Christian democratic our objective continues to to that of a government in which an operating Solidar Ity is expressed among All the democratic we have not changed one comma of our said Giorgio a Italy valor medal honors canadians Germany the italian govern ment has presented its Gold medal for civic valor to Canadian forces Europe in ceremonies Francesco the italian minister of presented the medal to maj Gen Charles cafe the award honors the role played by cafe in May 1976 when Northern Italy was hit by devastating com Manders of units which took part in the Ca Nadian Effort attended the the receipt of this medal is a great Honor for said and it will occupy a place of Honor in my Headquarters named operation the Canad in Effort honoured by the medal on May after major Earth tremors which entered in the italian province of Friuli some 100 Miles North of at that a Canadian Advance team was airlifted by c 130 from Lahr to Revollo air base in the devastated they quickly reported a Lack of water and elec tric Power tents and water purification equipment were included in ship ments of medical supplies flown into the area As italian authorities took Over Many of the Relief Canadian efforts shifted from medical assistance to restoring Power and water at the height of the Relief More than Canadian troops were in the earthquake stricken area near Italy supporting them were some 80 vehicles and three Kiowa Light observation helicopters the aircraft helped transport medical teams and aided Communia one helicopter h Buck was killed and two other people were injured when their aircraft struck a Cable near the Center of the earthquake the Gold medal for civic valor dates Back to 1793 when Victor amadeus King of presented the medal to Reward acts of bravery by Junior officers and other the medal appears much As it did the Only change followed world War h when the Royal Emblem was replaced by that of the italian Republic the medal is now on Dis play in Cyk member of the communist party Secre named thursday to try to form Italy 36th postwar said he after his experience of the past 18 that when the moment comes to resolve serious and urgent prob the sense of responsibility and collaboration tends to this was a reference to his agreements Wilh the communists after the 1976 elec Tion and again last july under which the communists abstained from voting against the government on major issues and in return were consulted on govern ment backed by the socialists and Republic the communists in recent weeks said Only a coalition of All parties could Cope with Italy economic ills and rising Politi Cal they withdrew their support from forcing him to resign on even before president Giovanni Leone tapped him the Premier was at work trying to line up leftist support he said he would Confer with other Christian democratic leaders Friday and would begin talking with leaders of other parties he said he realized the difficulties ahead but he was