European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday april 25, 1986 yes places for Beffer or worse these cities Are All no. / from press dispatches the no. I City May be in Belgium the soviet Union Thailand or Turkey depending on How you rate such things As health care weather books or furnishing an apartment. If breakfast is your bag you should be aware that Melbourne Australia has the world s highest egg prices $1.64 a dozen. Picking the Best place to live depends on who you Are said John Tepper Marlin co author of the new Book of world City rankings published by the free press in new York. If you re looking for a Good Job the bigger the City the better. For example if you re in the Auto Industry you probably want to be in Detroit. In retirement other factors come into  Swan Knees up photo this strange looking Critter is heading to the water with the help of Patrick Quilty and Raphael Rios. The two found themselves under the wings of one of Boston s Swan boats As the boats were prepared for their Spring debut at Boston Public gardens. Brussels has the most physicians one for every 139 people. Moscow has the most books in its Public libraries with 49,991,000. Marlin Immanuel Ness and Stephen t. Collins worked for the Council on municipal performance which collects and evaluates information on cities and their management. They compared 1984 statistics from 105 cities in 80 categories but did not Combine them into a single ranking. Of the listed cities the Cost of furnishing a Home with appliances is highest in Bogota Colombia $3,944and lowest in Istanbul Turkey $1,168. The average annual temperature was highest in Bangkok Thailand 83.1 degrees and lowest in Winni Peg Canada 36.5 degrees. St. Louis topped the homicide list with 58.5 per 100,000 people while Marseille France had Only 0.2. Washington has the most telephones per 100 Resi dents 173while Mexico City has the fewest 2. Helsinki Finland is 55.5 percent female. Bombay India is 56.4 percent male. Dallas has the highest divorce rate 8.4 per 1,000 people while Rio de Janeiro s rate is 0.2 per 1,000. Coronation delegation president Reagan selected his daughter Maureen wednesday to head the . Delegation to the Coronation of Crown Prince Makh Ostive As the King of Swaziland. Also selected to attend the Fri Day through sunday ceremonies in Mbabane were Harvey Nelson jr., the . Ambassador to Swaziland. Richard Hauser Deputy counsel to the president. Charles Freeman jr., senior Deputy assistant Secretary of state. Reagan Anne Foreman associate director of the White House office of presidential personnel. Retired air Force col. Milton Frank special assist ant to the president of Adelphi University Garden City . Check the appropriate Box Alabama state rep. Mike Box is facing a Challenge from Mike Box in the june 3 democratic primary meaning voters May have More than the usual trouble deciding which Box to Check. The 97th District race pits the incumbent Michael  Box of Satsuma against the challenger Michael a. Box of Saraland. The two Are unrelated and both go by the name  put a rep in front of my name when you use it the incumbent suggested. The state election rules have a provision for cases like this the first candidate to qualify for the race gets his name spelled As he wishes. The incumbent signed up first and chose to use Mike Box. The democratic party told the challenger he would be listed As . Box. Nobody knows me As . Box said the challenger a construction worker in his first political Campaign. Rep. Box said wednesday he signed up for re elec Tion on the first Day of qualification to eliminate the name problem. They could put Michael a. And Michael e., but that still might confuse voters the incumbent said wednesday. The lawmaker said he s concerned that Campaign contributions from outside the District May mistakenly end up with his opponent. A lot of people from other parts of state Send checks unsolicited. They think i m from Saraland and they May Send him my checks he said. No republicans Are seeking the seat. No show for secretaries Arizona House lawmakers said they did t want their secretaries to have to lie or risk their jobs so House speaker Jamie Sossaman forbade them from being interviewed on a professional secretaries Day radio show. We have enough trouble resolving issues around Here As it is. We Don t need to be listening to what our secretaries think of us on drive time radio said House minority Leader Art Hamilton a Phoenix. Sossaman a Higley issued the ban tuesday after Phoenix radio station Knix asked permission to inter View House secretaries on the special program. They would either have to lie or risk their jobs so we decided it was t in the Best interests of anyone to allow secretaries to do this he said. Sossaman said he could have let the secretaries de cide for themselves whether they wanted to be inter viewed but most members wanted a ban. I guess if a Secretary said too Many bad things about her Boss we d probably fire her but it s still a free country and the Secretary can decide for herself what she wants to do said Senate president Stan tur Ley a Mesa. Directors change directions directors Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese and actress whoops Goldberg have decided against attending the can nes film festival in France next month apparently because of european Security jitters follow ing the . Bombing of Libya. They Haven t stated publicly the reason they Are not going said a publicist for ambling productions in los Angeles. But it s obvious. They wanted to go and now they re not. You can con clude it was for that  Spielberg was the director for Goldberg the color purple and Goldberg one of the stars. Scorsese directed after hours one of four . Entries in the prestigious French film awards scheduled for May 8-21. Our executive contingent our Normal activities at Cannes will be proceeding As usual. It is accurate that Spielberg Scorsese and whoops Goldberg basically for personal reasons will not be travelling at this time said Rob Friedman vice president of world publicity for Warner Bros. Paperback books new adventures every time stars and stripes bookstores