European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes August 1985 daily Magazine today crossword irs impervious to nuclear warfare by Russell Baker new York have i mentioned Deauville in this space he is the irs Man auditing our tax and you have a sweeter Guy searching your since the kids grew up and left Home you know How it can be after the kids you get in the habit of staring at the to late into the and some times forget How to in not exactly saying that had been happening at our House until the irs sent Deauville but there were nights when my wife and i found ourselves still watching the to at Daybreak because neither of us was Alert enough to remember that youre supposed to go to bed before David Hartman shows up with Good morn ing in any after Deauville settled in with our Bank books and old laundry it brought life Back into the coming Home after a Day at the i always fell Happy As soon As i heard him riffling through a stack of our cancelled checks or up in our bedroom investigating the bedsprings for unreported afterwards he would come Down with lint All Over his suit and my wife and i would Brush him off just As we used to pick the worst of the dirt off the children before they got big enough to do it for it seemed like a Nasty Way for a Nice Young Man to spend his and my wife and i discussed the possibility of putting him through flying school so he could become a glamorous airline Pilot and see the that How much we appreciated having him in our life just when we needed somebody to keep our minds off but of course we never went ahead with the Hying school it Mightie looked like an Effort to bribe him not to report All the unreported lint under our then he would probably feel he just had to turn us and they probably promote him to Wash so he could no longer come to our then one Day my wife had a terrible do you that if nuclear War broke out Deauville might quit coming to our House she he do they might make she they might need All the irs auditors to dig the president out of his hideaway or to rebuild the Capitol so Congress could write nuclear depreciation allowances into the tax by she had a Point i worried about it for then finally interrupted Deauville one Day while he was under the attic floorboards looking for unreported come Down and have some Chicken and lets have a Little i he you have finally decided to Tell the truth about the 1947 Check you made out to Nate and leons Delicatessen of Baltimore for poor Young so much Promise being turned into so much i told him we feared the irs would take him from us if there was a nuclear it will do you no Good to foment a nuclear War with the red he because bouncing rubble wont save your suits from having the linings Razore out of he was referring to his request that i remove the linings from my suits so he could search for what he suspected was in unreported Cash income for the year you mean read he opening his titled poli cies of the internal Revenue to Page where it Plain As the Light from a smoothly functioning bomb during a state of National emergency especially resulting from nuclear attack the following essential functions will be resumed when directed or 30 Days after termination of the immediate pos attack period 1 collecting and recording taxes 2 Normal peacetime enforcement and appeals what a Load it took off off my to be much As the kids love in not sure we can rely on their showing up to provide company after the thermonuclear Deauville we can count it made us feel so Good that my wife said we should come clean with him about that celluloid doll she won at the carnival three years value 29 and never reported As wait until after the atom bomb i when hell want something to cheer him c new York times cancer coverage reassured Public by Ellen Goodman i dont know which moment was the most was it the sudden break from the network news Dis Cussion of Colon cancer and diet to the commercial for Hig fiber breakfast Cereal or was it the moment when the doctor took out the colonoscopy in All its glory and showed a television Audi ence precisely How his colleagues looked around inside the president or was it during the press conference when another doctor told the Media and the entire nation that the presidents bladder Catheter has been removed and Hes successfully returned that function to the choices there were All sorts of strange highlights in the coverage of presidential by any there was no privacy left to the presi i started to be grateful for Small at least there was no videotape of the operation i dont at least the colonoscopy being brandished about on the tube was not the same one used on the per haps they Are saving that for the Reagan by the time the Man from the cancer society told abcs Timothy Johnson How grand it was that we could now use the words blood and Stool on the i was ready to but to my own i think 1 with allowances for this excess ardor on the part of the Media and a bit of obtuseness on the part of the medical profession doctors tend to use phrases such As the Villous adenoma confined to the cecum of the Bowel this increasing frankness about disease has been part of a healthy this is not to suggest that reagans illness is a great a National cancer is hardly a social but dealing with directly and we Are not All that far removed from the Era when people could barely say the word they had to whisper there was some primal fear that the mysterious disease could be transmitted from Mouth to cancer was the word which was equated with the but what is most notable is that this the did not elicit mass the Stock Market didst it people didst huddle into Corners talking about president George Chalk it up to Public relations if you Chalk it up to bulletins about the presidents spectacular postoperative course or his much touted or to his or Chalk it in to growing honesty and under standing about the the information about can cer has made it easier for us to speak frankly about it and the frankness in turn has reduced the we seem to have that cancer int one illness and a universally fatal one at its with even More varied in this most prominent the doctors gave Good Odds to the president and the Media gave them in and therefore having his innards discussed in Public is a fair enough Price for Public c Boston glob Washington Post i Pont think them any question his administration we k Jup Gep one of the in nations lets face his personal a Gicand Grace arb a Sepione is View Pas another Camelot 50 says Topaz pm but will Sti iting for Ted Kip Ftp Jojn us As the Bush by Eugene Sheffer across 1 fashion 5 resinous stuff 8 frs Mother 12 Lake in 36 places to store 36 Down 37 City in 40 comic Book Down 1 witty saying 2 Yoko 3 ending for can or con sound new York 41 footless 14 German 42 thin mexican cake 47 irritate 48 dreamer 49 Cincin Nati players River 15 Corrida Star 16 appraise 17 free 18 London River 20 certain party guests 23 pile 24 favor Able 25 downpour 28 table scrap 29 Little maids from school 30 Swiss Canton 32 comforts antonym 34 British gun 35 harness part 50 Bounder 51 icelandic work 4 strength 6 actor Alan 6 past 7 English Admiral 8 Pedros Blanket 9 actor West 10 network 11 War god 13 platform to saturdays Puzzle solution time 23 19 fabled loser 20 theater sign 21 Legal wrong 22 concern ing 23 Singer Lena 25 relating to a topic 26 and bolts 27 Star of to 29 agent 31 those in office 33 american historian 34 figure of speech 36 computer food 37 Henry this sixth 38 Ron Howard role 39 pattern 40 engendered 43 harem room 44 cover 45 Hallucinogen 46 one time 20 2t 37 47 49 21 32 38 22 39 13 17 29 33 35 25 42 48 50 23 43 18 40 19 36 14 16 10 11 34 51 26 30 44 27 45 31 46 85 Hubert ill ju5t take know cancelled my Golf today Leaf around the House All pay Vou How thrill up
