European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday july 20.1983 the recent sweltering weather in South Eastern Pennsy Lnla prompts triplets from left Katby Kelly and Karen trickling triple treat Boyer to take Tine oat to Cool off with some ice Cream Cones. Kathy funds it tastes Fine licked from her hand and Appolo the three Sisters dont worry a bit about the Cool trickles that Are running Down their arms. Actor tobacco magnate s heir urge total ban on cigarette ads Washington a Congress should ban All cigarette advertising to save lives and protect future generations of americans from becoming nicotine addicts a House subcommittee was told Fri Day. Television actor Captain Kangaroo and the grandson of tobacco magnate re. Reynolds were among those joining the medical establishment in endorsing a Bill to outlaw All promotion and Advertis ing of tobacco products in newspapers and magazines on billboards and As part of sales displays. The daughter of the late actor Yul Brynner also urged the provisions of the Bill is a prohibition against any tobacco company Susing a Brand name in sponsoring Public events such As sports of the tobacco and advertising industries Are scheduled to testify against the proposed ban at an aug. I hearing but Friday s hearing was dominated by supporters of the Bill. The industries argue that the Advertis ing ban would violate free speech rights and would have Little effect on cigarette consumption. They also argue that As Long As tobacco is Legal advertising i should also be Legal. At the hearing Bob Keeshan a former smoker and creator of the Captain Kangaroo television character called Tobac co use a threat to the Well being of the nation s future of America is alive today in the minds the healthy hearts and the healthy lungs of today s youngsters Keeshan said. I ask you no i implore you to take Steps to assure the continued health of our Young Brynner a professional Model who lives in Paris showed the subcommittee a videotaped statement by her father before he died of lung cancer last year. Now being aired the segment features Brynner saying that heavy smoking caused his fatal illness and urging others to Stop smoking. Yul Brynner is dead. We All know 4. I inn imn of is rat tiie c1lfywr_ Brynner read newspaper articles in which representatives of the tobacco Industry say the Money spent on advertising and pro motion is simply done to get present users to switch to a particular added it is obvious that this Industry must constantly try to get new smokers to replace those who have quit or who have . Charles a. Lemaistre president of the american cancer society called cigarette smoking the single most preventable cause of death in the United can we Ever Hope to have a generation of Young people who do not be come nicotine addicts he asked. Whenever they go to the Ballpark watch a Tennis match read a Magazine or newspaper or attend a Rock concert the Yare assaulted by advertisements associating tobacco use with everything the wish for in representatives of the american med ical association the american Public health association and the american Academy of paediatrics also testified i support of the Bill introduced last month by rep. Mike Synar said tobacco causes Over 350,000 premature deaths each Patrick Reynolds whose grand father founded a tobacco Empire in1913, told the subcommittee if the hand that once fed me is the tobacco Industry then that same hand has killed Many millions of people and will continue to kill millions unless people Wake up to the hazards of rep. Thomas j. Bliley or r-va., said the proposed elimination of the Tobac co Industry s $2 billion a year advertising expenditures will not decrease . Bill Bradley. D-nj., and rep. Fortney Stark a Calif sponsors of a Bill to strip the tobacco Industry of a. Tax break Tor its advertising testified in sup port of the proposed ban. Bradley said the government should note subsidizing attempts to get americans hooked on tobacco and attacked the credibility of Industry claims that its ads Are not aimed at attracting new years tobacco companies have been telling us that smoking does t cause cancer he said. Now they re telling us that tobacco advertising does t Stark called those who sell and promote tobacco products merchants of Congress is not expected to take final action on Synar s Bill this year. Rette advertising from television and prohibited the broadcast of ads for smoke less tobacco products earlier this year. Reagan vows Mia answers Washington up president Reagan thanked the governments of Vietnam and Laos saturday for renewed efforts in helping find remains of Ameri cans missing in action in Southeast Asi and promised to apply All . Resources to the the same time however Reagan calling the Vietnam War in which the2,434 were lost a Noble cause warned families of the missing against seeking easy solutions and those who would exploit their loved ones for their fit. In his weekly radio address from theoval office Reagan praised the heroism of the mias and their relatives Many of whom gathered in Washington for the 17th annual conference of the National league of families of american prison ers and missing in Southeast called the Mia families the real heroes in this they never gave up. They never stopped Loving. And on behalf of every american i want to Promise each of them today we mean to end your heartache and uncertainty. Weill vigorously pursue the answers you seek and deserve. We will apply Ever resource we can to achieve the fullest possible accounting of your relatives still missing in Southeast there have been Steps Forward he said citing new cooperation from Laos and Vietnam in helping . Team search plane crash Sites for Bones or dog efforts Reagan said Are bringing results but Many questions m glad to report that the lao government has pledged to answer these questions and i look Forward to an improving relationship and the acceleration of our joint efforts he said. I also want to express appreciation for the increasing cooperation of the government of Viet Nam in the humanitarian quest other differences must not be Al Lowed to interfere in our Effort to resolve this Issue. We must continue to go for Ward. It is the Only responsible path audit is in the interest of both our last year Vietnam agreed to cooperate in the search for remains and any live mias but suspended the program after the United states bombed Libya. In re cent weeks Vietnam has resumed the Effort. Apparently referring to Well publicized but unproved charges made by for Mer servicemen that the government discovering up sightings of mias in Viet namese or laotian Jungles and prison amps Reagan said there Are those who want to Promise easy solutions or even exploit this Issue for selfish reasons. But we have mad Progress and the truth is we will continue to make Progress As Long As we stick with the facts and keep Faith with each other and demonstrate the Unity of Pur pose so fundamental to our the president repeating a controversial statement from his 1980 Campaign declared that the pos and mias were i m certain time will Tell part of a Noble cause and history s heroes. Parents abandon school aids Case Indianapolis up parents trying to prohibit 14-year-old aids Vic Tim Ryan White from attending Public school near Kokomo ind., Are giving up their 5-month-old Legal decision came late Friday after court records showed state court of a Why. I Don t want to forget his suffer peals judge Paul Buchanan had thrown they Lack ing Victoria Brynner said. I Don t out a request by parents of three Western the Case know whether to laugh or cry when i Middle school students to file a Preap not peal action was scrapped because the parents were nearly two months late i submitting their request to file the statement Buchanan parents who have already spent $ 16,000 to keep Ryan from classes agree the lacked the financial backing to pursue said attorney David Ross Delpre a nobody feels any differently about aids in the classroom Rosselot finances just happened to be the biggest stumbling spent All this Money and we Haven t even had a trial said Mitzi Johnson Leader of the parents group. You can t even Call it a mistrial. There Sno trial. There s Ryan and his Mother Jeanne White could not be reached for comment
