European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes june columns comments Couch knows buffs and biscuits by Russell Baker the cigarette is merging with a  the obvious name for this new corporate monstrosity is i have already proposed it to the committee on Nomen whose Burton Barton assures me the suggestion will be Given serious this Means it will be rejected out of which is a i expected better of a committee Boss with the nerve to Call himself a most people who head committees nowadays Call themselves believe it or and you probably dont believe it unless you follow the kind of news that involves which would make you a very Dull person if you were that kind of person you would not be rending you would be Reading the latest emissions from president Reagan about the tax Bill being the greatest Boon to humanity since so believe me if you were in charge of a committee these you would be called a when i phoned the committee on nomenclature i asked to speak to the we have no chair said the would you like to speak to the Couch a few years suspecting that somebody was twit Ting i would have but i would like to leave a message for the not if you said youd probably be connected to somebody introducing itself As the Escrito ires set All having said that for Lack of a chair i would speak to the i was connected to the Telephone of Burton Barton who said that my suggestion for calling the huge new organism a Buttico would get serious in sorry to hear i you know How it is a lot of kids nowadays May not know that cigarettes used to be called and it  help sales of either bulls or biscuits if kids thought we were mired in the i did not Point out that kids who didst know Butts were cigarettes certainly  know what mire so  very Well get sulky about it is useless to argue with corporate couches about the Best Way to exploit american you might As Well argue with a Harvard business school graduate that there were other business goals just As desirable As in any was interested in How this Man liked being Burton Barton As you probably now interest i like to see a thing or a person Well and people whose names included roman numerals were once so enviable in my eyes that i despaired about not having roman numerals meant that was before Rocky movies took the gloss off roman until then the roman numeral i had always wanted As part of my name was this was because Mcm Xxxiv would be indecipherable to most if they Are As bad at roman numerals As 1 and this would have made me seem mysterious and sitting stupefied in a movie House one night watching Rocky Iii or possibly Rocky i Sud Denly realized that if id been named Rocky and granted my prayers for a great roman numeral i would be Rocky Burton Barton in somewhat that he did not intend to give up his since nobody Ever called him it said something unflattering about i that he did not realize that the roman numeral want what it used to it explained Why he was uninterested in renaming the new  Combine he typifies the unimaginative mentality that rules the nomenclature committees of today corporate for i notified general electric that it was afflicted with a colourless name which gave Little idea of what the company was up Here was an outfit that had made billions out of Pentagon yet had paid no taxes for instead of calling itself general i urged it to change its name to general if the bulk of its tax free profits stemmed from Navy so much the bet ter it could be called Admiral which the after a Little tax deductible spending by the pub Lic relations could surely be induced to think of As admirable my suggestion has not been York times should Dod control Covert Aid by Robert Shepard the Cia has been much abused in recent years for its role in providing Covert military Aid to various foreign governments or Malcolm is proposing to spare the Agency by giving the Job to the Wallop offered the idea during recent debate on the defense authorization saying the Pentagon not the Cia has the expertise needed to hand out military Aid in a manner to make it truly Wallop did not press for a vote on his which was fortunate since the idea is fraught with diff As indicated by the response from some of Wal lops it was that the idea would be Given due consideration by the Senate intelligence and armed services Wallop said the military and paramilitary Aid provided by the Cia to various foreign groups has often proved to be less effective than it should have been in other our Side has it does precious Little Good to Send hundreds of Mil Lions of dollars of equipment unless it is done according to proper military criteria with certain military exper Wallop told his Wallop also noted the Domestic and International juror that develops when it is revealed that this or that liberation movement is assisted by the his idea is to have specially trained military operating in Small go in and help organize and assist and develop deterrent resistance to All kinds of soviet military entanglements in various countries around the it was unclear from Wallops remarks Why he thinks there would be less juror at the disclosure that Mili tary presumably in were operating secretly or openly in some foreign such missions clearly would constitute a degree of military intervention in foreign critics could reasonably ask where the line would be drawn Between a few Small teams of advisers and expanded forces that could become a significant Factor in the fight world opinion Many members of Congress could be expected to loudly oppose the assignment of soldiers to foreign even in Al where the United states is openly and formally aiding the Congress has been obsessed with hold ing to a limit of 55 military advisers and keeping them Well out of the actual Wallop said the Cia does not particularly want the Job of providing Covert Aid to foreign military but it is doubtful the Pentagon would be much More enthusiastic about taking on the task 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