European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stabs and stripes monday december 9, 1985 columns & comments today s crossword no punishment too harsh for spy by Art i lie i Iii Heil thing it Bull ? a by is seeing Naf he Ycu in punish Iceni i Deser is. As soon As one is Rrt red pm i Lorney Marls har paining for a lighter sen tence in exc hand e Tor the Fink revealing How much informal inn he Lurik Der to i he it her Side. Helln. Jus ice department this is mat o Hara representing collard Cosmos he weasel who som the fur die bomber to inc bulgarians. What kind of arc you offering us we Don t Pica bargains for spies o Hara. Ymir Guy snid out fits country and he government in lends to hang him by the neck until he is you belief think it Over. Of Uepi for the stealth bomber uni have no idea what secrets walked a a with and we have no intention of telling you if you keep demanding a Pound of we re not talking about sonic Luo bit code clerk Ohara. Cosmos in the biggest fish we be caught in years. We intend to put him in he free or for what if 1 were to Tell you that my client is willing in name Over 120 people in the . Government who arc Mill 1111 the Kab payroll who cares who they arc the More spies the government uncovers the worse we look in Washington very time be arrest somebody. Congress wants to know Why it took a so Long to flush hint out. We re Eccl your offer for inc list of Kab agents and we Resi ill holding the position thai Cosmos has to serve a minimum of 20 would it whet your appetite if 1 told you my client smuggled blueprints of wars in Nancy r Call in s cosmetic Case when she went to Geneva s we have films of Gorbachev switching cosmetic c.ise-. With \ Ify at inc air part. My cd incl knows the whole slurry and will Tell you How he did it for a reduced the Law is the la. person in his country must be punished ichor Ingo his crime. In cast Cosmos has to do it least seven years for compromising inc Security of he apparently you Don t Reali a what a predicament you re in. You people have spies coming out of your and spies coming owl of your socks. If you Don t show mercy to Cosmos i la advise him to remain mum about the Mie Kiir submarine code Hinl lie has slashed away in n pumpkin in the Northeast part of the United what sub codes i can t say because we might have to sell them to another country for Legal expenses if you make us go to Ohara we have an open and shut vase on your client committing reason. No matter what information you say he can turn Over to us he still will have u rot for 30 Days in the county i can t believe my cars. Collard made one Lousy mistake of Selling his country Down the River and when he says he s sorry and offers to make amends your response is that he spend a month behind what do you think Cosmos should get for cooperating with us it would t bother me if you charged him with one count of failing to curb his the government can live with that. We were afraid you were doing to hold out for the congressional medal of accuracy need t suffer Tor clarity by James kill Patrick nol Long ago i defended inc Nape of the neck against ,1 charge of redundancy. My critic s Point was thai a Nape by definition is the Back of one s neck and everybody ought of know this. I responded by saying that whole legions of people have no idea where a Nape might be found. In this conviction i was sup Puri cd by a College instructor s poll of 111 freshman Slud cols. Only 54 of them got it right. If fewer than half of one s readers know what a word Means i said we ought to search for better words. Now comes a vigorous Rita Sec from of cd Dondy of Wilma tic lit. Many readers Don t know a Fibula from a Tibia or bean sprouts from Brussels sprouts but Hal is no reason to write to the lowest common de nominator. Your working Rule would be a disaster. William Buckley would have to go out of business altogether. Surely you or. Bondy recalled recently hearing Chicago s a or Washington refer in a single sentence to his ubiquitous and indefatigable fewer than half of the mayor s listeners knew what he was talking about or. Bondy suggests Hal in such instances someone might be prompted to look up an unfamiliar word someone might recognise the stranger on a Sec Ond meeting and even Fine a Way to use cohort in speech or writing. In t that a proper function of education in language Well whal about it what is inc purpose of writing anyhow the main idea it Sterns to me is not to enlarge our readers vocabularies but to communicate an idea from the mind of the writer to inc mind of inc Reader. Thai s not inc whole of inc idea of course sometimes we Ric for the pure pleasure of turning pretty phrase sometimes we draft lax Law. Most of the Lime we write in inc Hope of being clearly understood. Or. Bondy makes a valid Point. We ought not to write Down to our readers As if they still were at the level of Dick and june and the mull named spot. If Vic Are writing to an audience familiar with anatomical terms of course we will write about Fibula. By con Trast if we Are writing to a newspaper s Ria Derthia maybe it s better to say that a High school quarterback broke his left leg below he knee than to say Hal inc youth suffered a fracture of the Why mystify when without sacrifice of accuracy we May clarify instead1 readers need All the help they can get. Department of the wandering mind in inc rapid City . Journal a reporter wrote of a chaplain inthe army who served during resurrections in the philippine islands. A reporter for the Miami i Irald wrote of smugglers who combined sheer Ruth full ass with an inventive reporter for the . News whole of a sheriffs Deputy who received a unanimous lip about marijuana plants in Lubeck. In the pen woman we learn of a humorous antidote award for an interesting abbreviated Story of not More than 400 words. Ask ask and Tut Tut we have to assume doubtful As the Assumption May be that these erring authors intended to Grilc of insurrections ruthlessness Anonymous tips and humorous anecdotes. The words just came out wrong. Vav must read our copy read our copy read our copy. Verbs of the week in inc Miami Herald a Book reviewer said that Joan Kennedy was motive by her own alcoholism to write about the affliction. I had never met the verb before but Webster s ninth new Colic Sale says it s been around since 1650. Moti vate is a Mere youngster dating from 1885, but it s probably a better Choice. In new Day a political writer doubled that Ger Ald inc Ferraro is chomping at inc bit to take on Republican sen. Al d Avalo next year. The preferred verb is not chomping but my Gra Cious can t we search for fresher images a Hundred years ago our forebears had a vivid picture gained from observation of a restless horse eager to the Only horses most new yorkers Ever Sec arc police horses which neither chomp nor Champ but merely nod their Heads. 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