European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago in the stars and stripes wednesday. September 10,1986 columns dear sir9 usually Means you cur9 by Andy Rooney dear sir writes Garry is. John of Anchorage Alaska. Sometimes 1 agree with you. Probably More often i do Garry goes on to write a Good letter and i was pleased and surprised because usually when someone starts a Teller dear sir they re mad at me. Almost All inc unsigned letters t gel arc Nasty. Should throw them away without Reading them but i Don to i always like it when someone who hates me can t spell. Here s one from a bigot in Orlando regard ing a Kurt Waldheim column i wrote sir you and the likes of you have a disease. To me you Are a Pilly. Japan is never going to verge the atom bomb. The yellow race is coming up and the White race ii finish. Why is Germany your Peoples Cupil it is very easy to blame somebody else for its Owen i gel some strange ones. A woman from Midvale Idaho writes to say she has a Stradivarius made in 1723 and would Tike to sell it. Why would anyone write to let me they have � Stradivarius for Sale a lot of people objected several months ago when i said obituaries ought 10 include the cause of death regardless of whether or no the families wanted it included your article far surpasses in terms of arrogance and Lack of feeling anything i have read in the usually obnoxious and intrusive write . Adams of Tivoli . Mighty Nice of you to say so of another letter says i keep hearing about the third world All wanting Money from us. Where is inc second world i know we re in the first world even though nobody Ever says so. Is any body else in the pint world with us who certainly not the soviet Union. They Don t even have television commercials or fresh fruit. Maybe you could publish a map so we d All know which world we were in Agnes Mcpeak wrote me a letter from Topeka kan., last year and i be just come across it again. She says the taking the Liberty of lending me a Book she wrote about her family. My Mother s name was Olillia Wilhemnia Knopf she says. You will find it very interesting. I usually get a $10 Well Hanks for the Book Agni but i think i a wait until i be read it before 1 tend the $10 and that could be a while. I be got quite a few books lined up to be read ahead or the one about your family fascinating though it sound. John Lentz who deals in stainless steel kettles in los Angeles thinks we should make Mexico the 51st state. It s a Good letter but 50 states seem like enough to me. And who says Mexico wants to be a stale anyway Mike and Annette Endres wrote me a Nice letter inviting me to come to Kula Hawaii after i did How much 1 hated hot weather they say the weather is always perfect there. I know about the weather in Hawaii and tin not going to Knock a but fro. Reminded of a poem by be. White in which he say he s had the two things be wanted most in life True love and change of two riven wts., has Good weather too according to John and Lucy Zel Dennist. Our nickname they say is Cool City. As in Coo City cleaners and the coot City Garden a woman in Lemon Grove. Calif., whose nicknames Candy writes to Lay her Mother died at 19 giving birth to her. Her husband died of cancer a year ago and she s been seriously ill Ever since. She s had Mastectomy and shoulder surgery and can t walk far because a podiatrist ruined her feel with 15 operations. Now she writes her cat is Blind and her dog has dry skin and has to be fed fat at every meal. This makes her sick. Thanks for your cheery note Candy. Wonderful to hear from you. C Tribune a data St nth How of Tell if a lobbyist is lying Byar Buchwald Meiste Rsinger came Rushing Inlo the room. I be got it. I be just perfected a urinalysis test which can Tel whether a lobbyist is lying or that s Good i said. But who needs it we do. There Are some lobbyist who Are playing with the truth and this is the first scientific Way of proving that they re making things up. The test will Tell us such As let s say a lobbyist has an acid rain account. He denies he used Bis White House contacts to help him in his work. All the president has to do is band him a specimen Why should the president do that no president wants a former suffer to use the administration for private suppose the person refuses to take the test then it s obvious he is trying to hide something. Forget acid rain let s Lake South Korea. A former top White House official is making a bundle representing Seoul. Through an oversight he forgets to Tell in people in the administration that he is being paid by the koreans. We Don t know if this is an Accident or an act of Breed that s where the test comes it s difficult to believe that one urinalysis lest will Tell so much about a lobbyist do you want a demonstration i gave already at the office suppose you were Japan and needed a tax break in puerto Rico who would you hire someone close to the what if that lobbyist used his contacts to gel Spe Cial tax privileges for the japanese How can you prove thai by my lest if it is positive he gels thrown out of the Oval and if he says he won t take the lest then the president himself throws him out of theoval is there any Way a person can fake it la s impossible. 1 worked wild a former White House aide who was a Good Friend of the president and first lady. He was lobbying for the Rockwell by bomber and had been accused of speaking to the head of the office of management Ana budget about the matter. They asked me la get to the truth. Fortunately the test showed that the Man was innocent. It was another Good Friend of the president and first lady who talked to the bomb about the did they ask you to test the second Guy no because no one in the White House could believe that anybody who worked for the Reagan administration would lobby fora bomber by the Way How do you lest a lobbyist you give him a specimen bottle and then you spin him around in a revolving that s it what were you expecting multiple Choice questions Saftic a Kipi. Today s crossword by Eugene Sheffer across soft Mineral belgian resort Ala distance11 concert hall11 he of tv14 son of la a 15 lottery win 37 of Lebonte m scottish terrier39 Large parrot41 South Africa language Trtan areal so King of is football in Large Quail try 5t Bugle Canu still if pack Down 1 hauls in trance 3 comedian Jay 4 prune works 5 Nan of tv6 youth org. 7 p
