European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 11 Buchwald the neighbourhood was sitting in front of his Crystal Ball when i was ushered into his dark what do you see i asked fifty he you see in the Ball that is what it will Cost you before i Tell you what 1981 holds in store for but last year you Only charged me that was before i saw a double digit inflation figure in my i handed him and i see he that was in world War ii i see an economic i see economists fighting to get into lifeboats and re treat from their forecasts of do you see a tax Cut i see a tax that i also see a Rise in social real estate assessments and gasoline now i dont see the tax Cut what do you see now i see Lee what is he doing a to commercial for american express that i see Richard Nixon dancing at the White who is he dancing with Spiro i was afraid of what else do you see i see president who is he dancing with he int Hes on a Tak ing a ride through the Rose where is the first lady Shes sewing drapes for the that int Worth there is a lot i see a net work sitcom which takes place in a Bordel but it will be done with taste and Good you dont need a Crystal Ball for that now i see the bordello show being can celeb and replaced by a divorced father try ing to raise a son in a nudist it sounds like its going to be a very Dull 1 am now in a a lady is trading in her Diamond wedding ring for a piece of roast a Man is exchanging his new car for a Box of Good dont you see anything upbeat in the Ball i see a banker announcing that he is reducing the prime rate to six that what else i see two men in White Coats putting him into an ambulance and taking him is that it that it for if you want to give me another ill Tell you what your new nine digit postal zip code number will c los Angeles times Syndicate briton finds Royal family keeps a Busy schedule London a a faithful Reader of the times of London has calculated that Britain Royal family carried out More than official engagements in the Odonovan of Dat reported in a letter to the times that Queen Elizabeth ii and her Hus Prince were the hardest work the Queen performed 217 official duties such As meetings presided the and ripes european edition Rose editor chief Mert Procto managing editor Elmer Henry Epstein manager manager this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication i for armed forces the stars and stripes 4 is published in conjunction with the armed forces information program of the department of contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily official View of the the depart of defense or the european the appearance of displays in this newspaper concerning commercial publications does not constitute an endorse ment of the department of including the military military address the stars and Apo International mall the stars and Postrach 11 10 d6100 Darmstadt Tel Gale Shell c prefix 06155 811 m Darmstadt Airstrip 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court the Queen also held 31 handing out Knighthood and other received 98 chaired 10 meet Ings of the privy Council and had weekly meetings with prime minister Margaret Thatcher for a grand total of something like 408 official Prince Philip carried out 337 Royal Queen the Queen at tended 116 official engagements in her 80th birthday year of which Odonovan one cannot fail to be All this information again confirms the hard work undertaken by members of the Royal family and hopefully it will be remembered by those politicians and members of the Public who always criticize the annual review of the civil the civil list is the Money allocated by parliament each year to the royals for performance of their currently More than Sheik Dom again seeks return of Ira held islands Beirut a the Arab Sheik Dom of Ras Al Ghaimah has again demanded the return of three Small islands in the persian Gulf captured by Iran 10 years the United Arab emirates news Agency has re the Agency said the Sheik Doms Sheik Saqr bin Mohammad said the Issue of the three greater lesser tune and Abu would be one of the items on the Agenda of the islamic Summit conference to be held in saudi Ara Bia South africans get ids Cape South Africa up All South regardless of will be fingerprinted and forced to carry identity documents in the future because of increasing threats of sabotage and espionage at military and civilian Interior minister Chris he Unis letters to the editor article is dedicated to All cops i was going through some stored relics and found this entitled what is a i thought i would Send you a copy for printing for All people to see As a dedication to All John Miller Germany cops Are human believe it or not just like the rest of they come in both sexes but mostly they also come in various this sometimes depends on whether you Are looking for one or trying to hide they Are mostly cops Are found everywhere on on the in the on in sometimes in your in spite of the fact that you cant find one when you want they Are usually there when it counts the Best Way to get one is to pick up the cops deliver and bad they Are required to have the Wisdom of the disposition of a and the Muscles of steel and Are often accused of having a heart to Hes the one who rings the swallows hard and announces the passing of a loved one then spends the rest of the Day wondering Why he Ever took such a Crummy on a cop is an oaf who  find a Bull fiddle in a Telephone in real life Hes expected to find a Little Blond boy about so in a crowd of half a million in fiction he gets help from private reporters and who Doneit in real mostly All he gets from the Public is i didst see when he serves a summons Hes a if he lets you Hes a to Little Hes either a Friend or a depending on How the parents feel about he works around the split sundays and and it always kills him when a hey tomorrow is election in lets go fishing that the Day he works 20 a cop is like the Little girl when she was was very but when she was she was when a cop is Hes getting paid for when he makes a Hes a and that goes for the rest of them when he shoots a stick up Hes a except when that stick up Man is Only a anybody could a seen lots of them have some of them covered with but most of them covered with if he drives a big Hes a Hiseler a Little who he kidding his credit is Good this is very because his salary cops raise lots of them and most belong to other a cop sees More trouble and surprises than the average like the cops must be out in All kinds of his uniform changes with the but his Outlook remains the same mostly a but hoping for a better cops like Days and they dont like car family and Anonymous letter they sometimes have but they cant they mus be and always remember the slogan at your this is sometimes hard especially when a character reminds to a taxpayer and i pay your cops get medals for saving stopping runaway and shooting it out with bandits once in a while his widow gets the but sometimes the most rewarding moment comes after some Small kindness to an older he feels the warm looks into grateful eyes and thank you and god bless i wish i could take credit for All the i am sure i happened across it some where in the and id like to be Able to give the author or speaker credit for a Beautiful presentation of the life of cops Are whether they Wear Blue Brown White ones or Plain the Point that under that shirt is a human being just like you make your own dream you make your own that the beatles int it John John we your fans beatles fans and music lovers in anyone who can respect and stand in Awe of such a creative we Pray that at least a part of your dream became it must have been a vast and farsighted for it expanded past a Mere wish for Fame and that was accomplished Way Back in 1964 and 1965 when you and three other gifted Young men from Liverpool wrapped the whole world around your Little you had what you you could have dropped us then and there but instead you spent the rest of the decade As a giving the world the most i Nova trendsetting and timeless music in its the beatles became a Standard of a phenomenon that later musicians attempted to live up to and for that we will always be but your dream didst end when the beatles broke instead your concept enlarged to encompass peace and love for everyone in the it was a nearly impossible plan but at least you and maybe wheres Michelle Michelle from the stars and stripes will try to help you and your but you must Contact us again and include your return editor that was just the if Only everyone would you taught us something else hones you were honest and searching in your songs and even More so in your love for a person your fans didst necessarily approve you were honest and believed in peace and what admirable the real reason the world will mourn the real tragedy and irony of it All is the fact that you haunt stopped looking to the who knows what sur Prises might have been in store you could have been whatever you might have chosen to do i know you would have continued to make your own Haydon Germany