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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 15, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes cracks Down on smoking at work los Angeles up the cites Tough new anti smoking Law is in giving nonsmokers the right to haul uncooperative smokers into the which went into effect prohibits smoking in medical restrooms and it also requires businesses with five or More employees to provide to the maximum extent possible a smoke free work the Law also covers fire squad cars and most City government offices except the one in which the Council members who passed the Law nonsmokers can have a smokers desk moved and can demand that smokers be banned from their they can complain to their Boss and they can complain to the City attorney and failing All else go to smokers who violate the ordinance Are subject to fines Between and employers who fail to establish some kind of smoking policy can be punished by a six months in or retaliation against an employee demanding the ordinance be enforced is prohibits police in squad cars enforcing the cites other ordinances were the first to feel the Laws effects at Midnight but no problems were nobody done anything about Paul Shoals officers usually have a Good rapport with their they dont let a Little thing like that interfere with their if they work together they  try to deliberately upset but if there was a problem they could ask for a Transfer to a car with a he conversation saturday was More concerned with which Beach to go to or whether to forgo Tennis for the Pool in 90degree promised to be differ ent with workers smokers and nonsmokers alike returning to their if history is an All should go said Charles director of the Berkele based califor a photo from War brides else Talvick and Eloise Howell reminisce in front of the Queen Mary in Long War brides Swap tales of times past Long a forty years after the country opened its doors to world War ii War brides from 20 countries joined together for a reunion saturday aboard the converted ship hotel Queen which brought Many of the women to the United its its just there meeting friends that they Haven seen for said Eloise who married a army signal corps serv iceman in about 300 women who married servicemen during world War ii gathered with their spouses for music and dancing Friday night and saturday aboard the British luxury which was used As a troop ship during the the Queen Mary was returned to use As a Cunard then Long Beach bought the ship and converted it into a dockside hotel convention Center in according to the Justice women and 212 men entered the United states under the 1945 War brides and a majority of them were Howell noted but those at the reception singing All the Good old musical songs represented 20 different including Ger Austria and she Howell said two women who came Over on the Queen Mary with her 39 years ago Are staying at her Home during the run were definitely going to do a lot of were running on Adrena she Nivans for nonsmokers no smoker has yet been prosecuted in California on an antismoking he in the two largest California cities with workplace smoking relatively few complaints have been in san there were 140 complaints out of registered businesses last and in san there have been 81 complaints out of licensed businesses since last while most of los Angeles Falls under the smokers sitting in the Horseshoe area of the City coun cil Chambers can indulge with there Are no rules in the area in which the 15 Council members said Marvin author of the two other notable smoke filled work areas Are in Sacra where state legislators also can smoke freely at their desks in the Senate and Assembly Chambers de spite strict nonsmoking rules in other parts of to networks seek to film Goetz movie new York up two of the nations three television networks Are trying to secure the rights to make a movie on sub Way vigilante Bernhard the new York daily news Abc officials said negotiations Are under Way for the production of a Goetz Abc also said it was trying to secure the rights to the neither network would comment in detail on its lbs officials said the network had no interest in a movie on we Are in negotiations on a Deal for a movie about Abc official Robert Wright was quoted As saying in the daily news saturday but for competitive reasons we cant reveal anything else about our the two networks announced their plans despite comments by Getzs attorney Joseph Reiner that his client has not been negotiating with numerous offers Kelner said Goetz has had numerous offers for movies and television pro he Goetz has rejected All of All sorts of people have tried to exploit but Hes very High minded and shuns the idea of a Book or a the attorney Kelner said there is no Way he would be Able to Stop a network from producing a movie about his he that any such production would not be authentic unless it has been authorized by it  be nobody could read his Kelner the attorney said his client warned the networks to be careful not to violate Getzs privacy in any he said he might sue if they the daily news said it had been told by Hollywood sources that new York to film producer Robert Halmi is behind the Goetz movie it said he is waiting for the highest network poll shows americans think Vietnam War was mistake Washington up a decade after troops pulled out of most americans believe involvement in the War was a mistake but one out of three do not know whose Side we fought a poll showed of adults surveyed nationwide for the Abc new Washington Post 55 percent said the cause for which americans died in Vietnam was not and 65 percent said the United states should never have been involved in the taken in february and also showed 57 percent had no Clear idea Why the United states fought in Vietnam and a stunning number of those questioned were ignorant of Basic facts about the on third of those surveyed did not know which Side the United states fought on 67 percent correctly said South Vietnam but 12 percent said North Vietnam and 21 per cent said they just did not the Lack of knowledge was strongest among adults 30 years old and younger those who were children or teens during the forty eight percent of them did not know the United states fought on the Side of South in a separate Survey of 811 War Abc new Washington Post pollsters found veterans to be better off financially and emotionally than the image they generally have reflected to the their responses generally contradicted the image of the Vietnam Veteran As a lost soul suffering from a lingering Host of physical and social Abc news pollster John Brennan fifty six percent of the veterans said they benefited personally from their War experience 29 percent said they were set Back by their service in Southeast Asia and 15 per cent were unsure what effect the War had on their sixty five percent of the veterans said that in the years following their Vietnam combat they did experience one or More problems emotional excessive drinking or drug Lack of problems getting a poor health and difficulty with family or but 75 percent of the veterans said they no longer Nave any of those  
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