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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 28, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday april 28,1986 radio show makes Semi historic to Debuf St. Paul Minn. A Garrison Keillor Sang his trademark look who s coming through the door on saturday As he professed nonchalance in welcoming a television audience to a Prairie Home companion for the first time. Keillor who once spoofed television by plotting on his popular weekly radio show to take Over lbs also welcomed a live audience to the show s new quarters in the remodeler world theater. The live performance was broadcast by american Public radio from 5 to 7 ., As usual but also was taped for Public television airing at 8  It s a kind of Semi historic occasion in a Way. We Don t expect you to get excited about it. I m not Keillor quipped in explaining the to cameras to the live Audi ence. In the absence of anything visually compelling on stage Keillor said the cameras would be taking shots of the audience members. So try and look rapt Keillor told them. Last year a running gag on the pro Gram for several weeks entered on a takeover of lbs by Keillor who has often stated his aversion to television. He spoke of moving the network to Minnesota and urged listeners to write in and say Why they wanted to be television executives. Keillor suggested that diehard radio fans could turn Down the brightness control on their televisions and just listen. The saturday night production celebrated the reopening of the show s Home the world theater in downtown St. Paul after extensive restoration work the pro Gram actually returned to the theater in january after two years but the $3.5 Mil lion renovation project was not Complete. Among the Prairie Home companion regulars performing saturday were musicians Butch Thompson and Peter Ostroushko. Guests included Chet Atkins Johnny Gimble and Jean Redpath. About 900 people paid $150 apiece to attend a Friday night Benefit performance of a Prairie Home  that show was taped for a future Cable television special. The to folks were Here today Keil Lor told the audience before the Benefit began. They said you pick up the Pace a Little when there s an audience Don t you i said i m from Minnesota you know. It s a Little late to become visual " earlier Keillor said he could count on one Finger the things he had watched on television. That he said was one Quarter of the super bowl. But Keillor also said he does t really have anything against to. I have lost track of whatever grudge i used to hold against to he said. To me it s a clean  although Prairie Home companion s estimated broadcast audience of 3 million to 4 million people makes it the most pop ular program on Public radio the world has Only 1,000 seats and fans wait weeks for tickets. Keillor author of the Best Selling Book Lake Wobegon Days confessed some nervousness to the audience about the television cameras. He said he would find out later from friends if the to debut was a Success. I Don t plan to watch it he said. Deaver urged acid rain envoy appointment report says Washington not White House officials say Michael k. Deaver adamantly urged that a special envoy on the acid rain Issue be appointed As sought by Canada according to a report to Congress. The report was compiled by the White House counsel for Congress general accounting office which is investigating the possibility that Deaver who was Deputy while House chief of staff violated Federal Law on conflicts of interest. The Gao is looking into Deaver s role in White House meetings on Canada s desire for an acid rain agreement with the United states two months before he left the White House and signed a $105,000 contract to lobby for Canada. Deaver has denied any wrongdoing. The report describes various officials recollections of Deaver s actions at the White House. The counsel Peter j. Walli son wrote that David a. Stockman the former budget director recalled Deaver As being actively involved in the special envoy approach and what would be in the charter for the special  baby James gets heart of brain dead girl Loma Linda Calif. Up a 15 month old boy with a deteriorating heart underwent successful transplant surgery saturday receiving the heart of an Young girl who died from an accidental drug Over dose officials said. Surgeons completed the transplant operation on the boy known As baby James at 2 45  At Loma Linda University medi Cal Center Hospital spokeswoman Anita Rockwell said. The parents of baby James have expressed gratitude to the donor family for the difficult decision they made and for their gift of life to baby James Rockwell said. Baby James the Only child of a califor Nia couple who asked not to be named suffered from cardiomyopathy a general deterioration of the heart muscle Rockwell said. Hospital policy prohibits the release of information about heart donors but an offi Cial said the heart transplanted into baby James came from a 15-month-old girl who died at California medical Center in los Angeles. The child was brought into the Hospital s emergency room last sunday in a coma. The surgery was performed by or. Leon Ard Bailey the chief of paediatric cardiac surgery at the Hospital who transplanted the heart of a Baboon into an infant known As baby Fae last year. Stockman told the counsel that in his View Drew Lewis who was chosen As the special envoy had a secret mandate to be accommodating to the  in his interview with the White House counsel s office Stockman said he Drew this conclusion because in a meeting with Lewis after he was appointed special envoy he seemed to have set views on his mis  also Stockman who opposed a change in the administration s acid rain policy which called for More study of the Issue said he was excluded from the Selec Tion of Lewis even though he had been told he would have an Opportunity to participate. Canada was pressing the United states to take extensive Steps to curb Industrial emissions that Are the source of acidic precipitation which is harming Marine and Plant life in the northeastern United states and Canada. The special envoys appointed by the two countries have since recommended a five year program to control the emissions. The envoys appointments were announced in March 1985 at president Rea Gan s Summit meeting with the Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney. Fred Khedouri an official in the office of management and budget recalled that Stockman had attended a White House ses Sion shortly before the Summit meeting. Khedouri said he had been told by Stock Man after the White House session we be got a special envoy probably Lewis. Deaver was Adamant on  although Stockman was the source of the most forceful and dramatic recollections of Deaver s role concerning the acid rain Issue others interviewed for the coun Sel s report including the former National Security adviser Robert c. Mcfarlane also said Deaver had sought a special envoy with the purpose of assuring a successful Summit meeting. Deaver through an aide declined com ment on any specific allegations of conflicts of interest or any other possible violations of Law. The conflict of interest Laws prohibit a government official from knowingly act ing on behalf of a future client. The Laws also prohibit a client from paying a former Public official As an expression of gratitude for work performed while a government employee. The White House counsel s report which has been Given to the Gao dealt with White House officials views concerning whether and to what extent or. Deaver participated in meetings on the acid rain Issue or the appointment of special  Deaver left the White House last May to form a lobbying firm that also represents saudi Arabia Mexico Singapore a big South korean steel maker and a panamanian sugar company. His Domestic clients in clude Rockwell International for which he has lobbied for More air Force purchases of the by bomber made by Rockwell. Deaver a close Friend of Reagan and his wife Nancy is negotiating for an $18 Mil lion Sale of his firm to a British company. Congressional critics have questioned How a firm less than a year old could be Worth so much Money and have initiated a number of investigations of possible conflicts of in Terest. Package not plane was supposed to drop a photo firefighters and county police remove single engine plane from the front Yard of a Home in Carvel farms a housing development located South of Wilmington Del. The Pilot Francis Borkowski 37, of Florence n.j., was trying to drop a package out of the plane to his son whence flew into a tree and crashed. Borkowski was not injured  
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