European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes april is the perfect 80s Story by Ellen Goodman posed to do Charley Doest look like the sort of fellow the kids would so we have gone at least in the sense of ser today crossword by Ellen Goodman Charley Doest look like the sort of fellow the kids would normally bring Home from College during Spring maybe its the Bullet Belt Over his sleeveless shirt that sets him maybe its the m16 in his hands that seems just a bit even for the Punk but let us keep an open mind Charley after the Campus poster boy of the College Republican National he is the new Star of a fundraising Campaign to encourage College students to adopt their very own nicaraguan in a macabre twist on the theme of the save the children the fund is telling students that for a Mere a Only 53 cents a they can buy one Contra meals and maybe even get a letter describing How much better the murder and mayhem Are the poster pitch goes like this my name is Charley and i am a nicaraguan a free Dom 1 have taken up arms against the soviet Empire and its satellite government in Nicaragua and 1 need your last year your Congress Cut off our funding please help me and my fellow we Haven got it closes with the sort of ecological plea that always attracts the Young save the i find this tale of Charley and the contras a perfect Story for the and i dont say this merely to keep Charley from getting angry at me although i would feel better if he took his Finger off the this Republican fundraiser is a logical Extension of policymaking in the age of after this is an Era when Domestic policy is rapidly becoming a private Why not foreign policy the Days of privatization began Back when Reagan first starting cutting social he maintained that donations and Charity would take up the individuals would do what the government it didst happen that but everybody got the the Public sector was going to do the private sector was sup posed to do so we have gone at least in the sense of serv we now have a growth Industry in private Security a new Supply of private and a bumper crop of private in new where the Public transportation system is Creaky and sometimes there is now a private bus in cities where the Public school systems Are Many head for private social policy has been reduced to one Basic principle you can get anything you Are willing to pay sooner or later this was bound to spill Over onto for eign if Congress refused to fund the then it was natural to turn to the private at least to those private citizens who regarded Charley As a Home team Jim and Mel introduced a Bill last week to Stop this sort of private military but there just trying to keep an old fashioned government monopoly the rest of us can now enter the Era of free Enterprise each american citizen can have the wonderful Opportunity of choosing sides and sending their no tax dollars to whatever armed forces they find cute enough like the looks of an Afghanistan Mullah give him a couple of Bucks a sick of Marcos have an auction for the if you prefer Iran and your neighbor likes Why fight about it when each can adopt his or her own Soldier for a Mere 53 cents a the Beauty of this free Choice ism is that we dont have to hold foreign policy we dont have to arrive at any sort of we dont even have to in fact we dont have to fund any government at for that Stop with building private armies while we Are in the let us encourage the Reagan administration to return the tax dollars slated for new weapons systems and let private in All their disparate take we could begin by holding a bake Sale for the i have a swell recipe for chocolate hip c 1985 the Washington Post writers group his sparkling prose didst compute by James Kilpatrick not Long ago a flier came in for a new piece of com Puter software called put out by a Deci Sion Are in longboat 1 had been thinking of getting a Gadget that would scan my copy to Correct errors in this one advertised a dictionary of i bought the As it turned i got More than i bargained this piece of software not Only flags errors in it also criticizes errors in style and punctual it inserts comments on a writers sentence Struc it computes a readability and it does All if you on the basis of Over rules of English out of curiosity i subjected some of my own sparkling prose to the ministrations of this floppy the machine said i was a Lousy then i fed the right writer lincolns Gettysburg Abe was this is what the computer said about old Abe readers need an let Grade level of education to understand the the writing style is very the writing is passive voice is being heavily Many adjectives Are being most sentences contain multiple try to use More simple the machine concluded with a list of uncommon words and asked a tight lipped question will any of these words confuse the intended audience Conse struggled if the machine recommends that Lincoln consider replacing the uncommon words with simpler and old dont begin that sixth sentence with How about All this after i got Over being the whole thing struck me As the notion that there Are rules for English composition is prep Ster one of the rules for this piece of software is that a sentence of More than 22 words is too Long a a writer should never use the passive Complex sentences Are inherently bad do not begin a sen tence with a do not end a sentence with a vary the beginning words of your and so and so most of this is sound As a general promo familiar words of course Are better than unfamiliar excessively Long sentences tend to entangle a in most Active verbs will serve you better than passive but whatever it defies there Are times when a preposition is the Only thing you can end a sentence often the passive voice should be deliberately too Many Short and simple sentences get to be As a primer for this piece of software May be use and it offers other benefits also it made me so mad that my blood pressure went up to a Gratifying level and stayed there All a question from Herman Herst in Boca what is the word for a Grassy strip Between a sidewalk and a Street he says the strip is called a swale in Florida and a berm in other but he believes there Are at least two other words that Are regionally John Zaininger of writes to say that Philadelphia and London Are the Only cities to his knowledge in which a sidewalk is a about All i can contribute to this conversation is that in new Orleans and i believe in other Southern cities a sidewalk is often a Universal press Syndicate in project alow by Eugene Sheffer across 1 emulate Brooke 5and Tucker 8 King toppers is Mauna 14 Story 15 laugh provokes 17 jog 18 changes 19 Home of Roma 21 Short napped 22 kind of 23 Pouch 26 pilots record 28 aspect 31 Oil Export 33 deface 35 Paradise 36 removed the Rind 38 As wine 40 woeful 41 Rosary unit 43 hint 45 baby Haven 47 showy 51 toss 52 Type of add 54 British Queen 55 append 56 soft drink 57 Hardy heroine vegas 59 pay at 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