European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday october 2, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 11 after intensive sampling italian reds set Best letters to the editor table food critics find wander news is on the March Rome a two leading French restaurant critics Are giving italian politicians food for thought. After sampling the Best and the worst of what the coun try s two major parties Are serving up at their annual festivals they concluded the communists set a better table. Henri Gault and Christian Millay who gained Fame promoting the so called new Light cuisine in France toured the communist party festival in Genoa and the Christian Democrat festival in Pescara for the weekly Magazine espresso. The two disclaimed any knowledge of italian politics or politicians although they said they would be honoured to Dine with communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer and Premier Giulio Andreotti and then make a judgment on their food tastes. But after sampling plates and plates of pasta fish meat cheese and sweets and Downing glasses and glasses of italian Vin tages Gault and Millay said that of the political cuisines the communist is better although the Christian democrats Are no slouches with their Forks. Gault and Millay who like to say they Are reviewers not inspectors in their Battle for supremacy with Michelin sampled the wares at 17 restaurants set up to feed the masses at the two annual gatherings of party faithful. One restaurant at the communist Festi councilman wants prayer ended before meetings Metuchen . A Paul Marsa plans to ask Superior court judge David Furman for a court order to Stop township Council members from praying before each meeting. Marsa who Calls himself an atheist by intellectual reasoning objects to the prayer because he said it violates the right of separation of Church and state. The prayer did t matter to me Marsa said. You were coerced into joining the 44-year-old divorced father of three boys said residents of this Central new Jer sey Community of 16,000 have been Cool to his proposal. Val Dell Nita serving the Genoa speciality stockfish was actually awarded two to ques or chef s hats Gault and Millay s answer to Michelin s stars. They described the communist festival As Pantagruel an meaning roughly a giant feed. In the first week alone hungry party militants consumed 11 tons of bread 11 tons of meat and two tons of cheese. On the other hand across the Peninsula on the Adriatic coast the reviewers found the Christian democrats at their Festa Del Amicizia festival of Friendship More sign read Don t think a party lives on payoffs. Come and eat bread and drink Chianti but give one chef s hat to the Biella and its polenta a speciality made of Cornmeal Mush and Herb filled Agnoletti a Type of pasta. The Best gastronomic experience of the festival said the reviewers. The frenchmen did t attempt an Analy Sis of the eating tastes of the two parties but said the communists appeared to be More diligent in Choice of cuisine offered and better few years ago the two reviewers con ducted a sampling in France on the ques Tion is there a relationship Between food tastes and political opinion on one question they said the left and the right Are in agreement frenchmen drink too much wine. The left also believes that the French eat too much. At least on this Point it would seem French and italian leftists go their Sepa rate ways. The european edition Why does t the stars and stripes print More stories about the Ivy and wander ing tens of thousands of your readers in Germany the Netherlands Belgium Italy and other countries in Europe want More information about the in. Whether they attend several in events each year each month or each weekend they Are All eager to learn More about what the Ivy can of Fer. They Are interested in the rules proce dures and benefits of in wandering in Europe. Newcomers want Basic information while veterans want More detailed information. The stars and stripes should be Able to provide that information. The stars and stripes has a responsibility to inform and educate its readers. You already Cater to Many audiences with widely varying interests in music sports and , despite All the mail requesting More reporting on Ivy activities very Little information has been printed on the your intentions to print material on the Ivy Are commendable your accomplishments have been disappointing to , the undersigned american Canad an and German american wandering clubs in the div publicly Appeal to the stars and stripes to print More articles about the Ivy and wandering. To help you prepare the articles on the in we offer you All possible assistance. Col. Billy e. Spangler Usa. Editor in Chafet it. Col. . Taylor Usan. Deputy editor in chief Mert Proctor. 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We re talking about $30 or $40 billion if the air Force gets to build the system which the general in charge describes As being like the Shell game where you have one pea and three nobody wants to fool the soviets More than i do when it comes to pinpointing our missiles. But the Cost of the project seems so great that i think we should seek out Al Ternate ways of accomplishing the same thing. At the moment the contracts for devel Oping the my Shell game have been awarded to the Boeing and the Martin Marietta companies. I believe the air Force made a mistake in turning Over the problem to them. The company which should have gotten it is Amtrak which runs most of the Pas Senger railroads in the United states. The Beauty of turning it Over to the Amtrak people is that they already have the equip ment and the know How to fool anyone when it comes to figuring out where one of their trains is at any Given time. Let us say you put a missile on an am Trak train in one of the underground Tun Nels. Then the air Force puts out a sched ule at which site the train will be on what Day at what time. They would make sure that the soviets got a copy of the schedule As part of the Salt agreement. Obviously the train would never be where the schedule said it would be and the soviets would go nuts trying to figure out where the missile train was. It would accomplish the same goal As the my pro Gram at half the the soviets protested that we were not living up to the Salt agreement the Pentagon could invite them to Send Over their top generals and have them ride on an am Trak train to prove the air Force has no control Over How the United states runs its railroads. Once the soviet command realizes that it could never depend on knowing where a missile train is going to be it would be deterred from launching a first strike on our minuteman Sites. The advantage of the plan is that the Money Amtrak received for this defense contract could be spent on new equipment and rails for its civilian passenger service above ground and we would no longer have to subsidize this Mode of transportation. The i made this suggestion to an air Force general he had one major objection to it. The trouble is that if we gave the contract to Amtrak not Only would the so Viets be fooled but we ourselves would have no idea where the missiles thought of that i said. What you could do is set up a hotline Between am Trak and air Force missile Headquarters. It could be attached to a Loudspeaker and an Amtrak announcer would Man it 24 hours a Day. He could say missile launcher 104 scheduled to arrive in Cheyenne Wyo. At 11 . Will now be arriving on track 9 at 4 . This afternoon or due to a derailment outside of Phil Adelphia the minuteman limited scheduled to leave tonight for Amarillo Texas has been cancelled until further no Tice or Amtrak is sorry to announce that its nuclear Comet which was to Stop in Baton Rouge has now been diverted to Denver because of inclement weather Amtrak would keep you up to Date on every change in its it might work the general said. It certainly fits our one pea and three Walnut strategy. The Only thing that bothers me is that we be told Congress the my system will Cost $30 billion. If we now go Back and say we Only need $15 billion for it the air Force will lose All its credibility on the c los Angeles times working together we can satisfy your readers requests. Gott Zum Gruss gut Zug fuss Augsburg american wandering club bad Kreuz Nach american wandering club Baden so Lingen Kan Dische wander club Pitburg gaiters Darmstadt Deutsche american wan Der Freundel Hahn highlanders Hattersheid wander und Kultur Verein Heidelberg International wandering club Frankfurt Sachsenhause wander round Mannheim Deutsch amerika Nische Nahe night Hawks Pir Masens pathfinders Ramstein roadrunners Span Dahlem Eifel wanderers we agree. We should be printing More news of wandering and we will be doing so. But to set the record straight we printed two full pages in 1977 and a full Page in 1978 on How to get involved in wandering and the Joys thereof. In addition we have publicized american sponsored Volks marches and have announced others which were brought to our attention in our weekly european Calendar of events. That is hardly ignoring the subject. As a sports writer asked after our last full Page on Volks marching my friends and i spend every weekend walking around a Golf course and we Don t expect to see anything about it in the paper. Why All this publicity about people who walk around in the Woods Well there s a difference in the sports. And we recognize it. Safe and usar eur sports and recreation officials agree that Volks marching has become the num Ber one family participant sport among americans in Europe. So beginning this week we will Start a column for Lack of a better title called March a couple of times a month. Well announce your hikes your Best hikers and anything else about wandering that might prove readable to others on the weekend trails around Europe. If the response proves too much for a twice monthly column Well consider making it week and if you have a great Black and White photo from your walk Send it along full identifications please and Well consider running it along with the columns. Address info you would like to see in the Volks March column to March attn Tomrose stars & stripes Apo 09175 incidentally we counted nine mentions of in in your letter. At least four other organizations in Europe notably the avg and the div also Sanction hikes and runs weekly. In Many areas they Are the pre dominant organization in the Field. In our news of wandering we will Hope to carry information on their events As Well As hikes sponsored by Independent organizations. Although some May want to see rival organizations crushed and Dis banded vol Smarch enthusiasts Welcome the Competition among the organizations which has contributed significantly to improvement in the sport. Reminder a letters to the editor must contain full printed name and address of the writer and must be signed. Unsigned letters will not be considered for publication. Writers Are encouraged to include phone number and Economy address especially if they desire a fast reply
