European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes monday february 17.1986 races n places his goal is for music City to lose a million pounds. � t f a of from press dispatches a Nashville tenn., psychologist is setting out to put the music City on a diet hoping to take enough pounds off hips and waistlines to win the City a world record. We re going to melt off a million pounds in the next 12 weeks said Martin Natahn director of the Vanderbill University weight management program. It s going to be a Community wide Effort no More fat person against the  people participating can drop by weigh in stations at All it Nashville area Kroger s supermarkets. Kalohn author of two Best Selling diet books said the expected 30,000 participants in Nashville where the chocolate covered goo goo Cluster Candy bar is made will rotate three weeks on the diet three weeks off. Arid Back on again up to a total of 12 weeks. In the last program where people did two rot ions the average weight loss was 30 pounds he said. He cautioned that overweight people will lose More and thin people less. Famous fans nor John my Fanf and pm Frond Actu forum two fait a Bank from it Listl Ghl to Tatch a a few Gam Friday neg he in lot ant it. Tit foot Wurf in Luck when la Lakin Dowid  141-117. Natahn s rotation diet weight loss program includes varying degrees of exercise and calorie intake on a menu that includes Low fat Dairy products lean meats and  said he was 75 pounds heavier 23 years ago and lost the excess weight on a diet similar to his rotation  the idea caught on at Vanderbilt s weight management  the dieters keep the weight off will depend on their Diligence. Ivou want to weigh even five pounds different for the rest of your life you have to do something different for the rest of your life. People have to realize that he said. Natahn said a key part of his program is a recommended 45-minute daily  you sit for a living there s no Way you can keep your weight off. The human body was not designed to sit. You just have to move every Day. I m not talking about becom ing an athlete just going for a walk he said. Rather going of farm country the lbs evening news with Dan rather will originate from Sioux Falls s.d., at the end of february because the network s journalists think the farm crisis needs in depth treatment a lbs news official said."1 think the Story of the american family farm is maybe the biggest. Or one of the big Gest Domestic issues that will confront this nation this year Lane View Dos executive pro Ducer of the lbs evening news said. Dan rather Anchorman rather will Start a five Day series of broadcasts feb. 24 in Texas. Rather and a travelling Crew of about 25 writers technicians producers and others then will move to Sioux Falls where the pro Gram will be broadcast from the Kelo to studios feb. 26-28, said Judy Grant Kelo to news director. Farm stories Likely will take up about half the news time in the half hour broadcasts Venardos said. The network decided to use rather s reporting talents to focus on the financial crisis that threatens to unravel an american Way of life the family farm he said. Taking the broadcast to the farm country is better than sitting in new York and saying there s a prob Lem out there " Venardos said. Americans ill informed Twa Hijack Pilot John the stake told a Washburn University audience in Topeka Kan., that the Ameri can Public is ill informed about International events and often lends to ignore positions other than those backed by the . Government. He said he came to that conclusion after he was held hostage in his plane on a Beirut runway for two weeks and heard a lot from his terrorist guards on the Issue of . Support for Israel. This is not an attack on the us and i am not anti american Testrake said. I also am not anti israeli but the , and its citizens need to keep a firmer restraint on Israel rather than giving it Blind support without questioning our position. Festival of life1 for aids last summer a Harvard University student who had never really Given much thought to aids began to no Tice that More and More newspaper stones and to pro Grams were focusing on the deadly ailment and what he Learned disturbed him. It seemed to me that years after the crisis had begun the Media were still finding that the sensational aspects were More interesting than the solutions said Stephen Gutwillig. Everyone seemed to focus on the gory  school began last fall Gutwillig decided to raise Money on Campus for research into a cure for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. At first he had a Small fund Raiser in mind but Gutwillig s festival of life will last All this week feature Well known politicians scientists and perform ers and include plays movies speeches poetry read Ings concerts and exhibits. It will be sponsored by the state s governor Boston s mayor and top Harvard Gutwillig estimates the festival will raise $30,000, which willbe donated to the aids action committee and new England deaconess Hospital where 297 people with aids or related disorders have been treated in the past three years. Paries still crusading Rosa Parks whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a White Man 30 years ago in Montgomery Auu helped spark the civil rights movement is still crusading against racial inequality. Some Progress has been made he 73-year-old activist said Friday during a visit to an elementary school in Manhattan Kan. But wherever there s deprivation prejudice denial there s still work to be  Blacks no longer must sit in the Back of buses drink from separate water fountains or at tend segregated schools but they still struggle against prejudice she said. Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat Ron Parks on a bus and Blacks in Montgomery backed her by boy Cotting the bus system for 11 months until the City later agreed to allow seating on a first come first served Basil. Exon undergoes Eye surgery sen j. Janus Exon was in Good condition after Eye surgery to repair a detached Retina and should recover fully in a week his surgeon said Friday. Or. John Pemberton said the Nebraska Democrat woke up at his Home in Lincoln on feb. 7 with clouded vision in his left Eye. When the Retina Tore it Tore across a blood vessel which caused a major Haemorrhage into the Eye Pemberton said. Exon 64, underwent 90 minutes of surgery thurs Day at methodist Hospital in Omaha. Paperback bestsellers