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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, November 3, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 columns the stars and stripes monday november 3,1866 today s crossword a tribute to fallen War reporters Brand Rooney writing about people who have died ii not a War lotto not a great Many readers but i cannot resist telling you Toul a ceremony i attended in Washington Hon Oring the memory of american Jou Malibu who were kilted in wars they were covering. There were 218 names on die plaque. I knew 16 of them and five were Good friends. There is a particular dancer in one journalist saying he knew i lot of new people who were heroes because Here ii the odor of Kir Praise by association. Having Laid that i must nonetheless say i have known Tome heroic War correspondents who were driven by a compulsion 10 Tell the truth about War in pile of great danger to themselves. J look Al thit list of of friends and memories flood my mind Pete Paris a photo Grapher for yank Magazine and a dear Friend of Rae in London. He a killed on a Day. Bede Erwin. Associated press. We shared room in a farmhouse in Normandy after the vat cml one Day we both went to the Root i Tuy cd overnight inthe Fidd. Two Dayi later i returned to the room we soared. Bede Erwin bad been killed. They already had packed up his possess no and shipped them Back to his wife. Among the things they shipped was a picture of my wife that i bad on top or the Dresser Bede and i shared. Bill Stringer United Preia kitted in Normandy he was replaced on the Job by his wife Ann. The rest of us in the press Camp Oidne know How to act toward her but she made it easy. She Jast picked up and. Did Bill s Job often with tears in her eyes. Ernie byte left us somewhere in Germany to go to Ibe Pacific where be a Kitta by a japanese sniper on a desolate Pacific Island. Ernie was the Best kind of hero. He bated Ibe War and Wax afraid of dying but he kept at it because the soldiers he loved had to keep at it Bob Capa the great hungarian photo grabber who spoke seven impugn ail badly. He said about War photography if your Pkt urea Aren t any tend you next nil close  Bob got too dose. In the memorial pro Gnu the talented reporter Georgie Ann Geyer whole about War correspondents Why she asked were correspondents who so often on a daily basis were Flag the Roost horrible deed of Man to filled with life and often with Joy the correspondents got Dan ondi angry and co wed with the world but they didst get depressed they did t get pessimistic and in general they Dindl feel that Mankind was no Good i came to the conclusion that it was because in correspondents were there. They were experiencing things firsthand and not living vicariously or abstract by. For in whatever work or profession being in the intense and passionate Center of things instead of Onibe doll Gray and often alienated outskirts of life is what makes Fife whole and Joy fill i Hope you la excuse me for being proud of my association with some friends in my business who died doing it the first Rule of writing be Clear by James a Patrick Back in 1898, a gentleman by the name of Charlesa. Bramble published a Book called the Abc of mining. A handbook for  Newt Espe of Portland ore., recently sent along several pages from the Book. Let me quote a paragraph or two ditches and flumes of Wood or Metal Are used touring the water for Hydraulic mining from the Region where it was impounded in a catch Basin often a distance of Many Miles. In planning a ditch the Miner must see to it thai his water Supply is Al a sufficient Elevation to com Mand the ground. The More pressure the water works under the better. The Supply should be continuous or at least be available during Ibe whole working  in regions of deep Snow should have a South pm exposure. All streams crossed by the ditch should be diverted into it to counteract leakage and other loss. Waste Gates must be provided every half  now if you will compare that Duyec with the intr actions Given in an ism manual for printing a list of data files pm Nutick to specify How Many clock ticks print can have to print characters on the print device. A is called rna licks. The default value for Max tick u 2 Max licks. The Range of values is from i to 255 Max locks. This parameter does not need to be specified each Lime you use print. Be sure the device you name is physically attached to your system naming a nonexistent device will cause unpredictable system  my correspondent remarked that he had never seen better expository writing anywhere than he had found in Bramble s unpretentious handbook for  me concur. Few tasks presented to the writer Are More difficult than the task of writing clearly for non professional readers. In such in undertaking no knowledge May be assumed everything most be spelled out simply and straightforwardly. A ground Sluice is a Trench Cut through the  there Yon have a sentence that defies improvement watches must be set Over the sluices or Gold u Likely to  the greenest Greenhorn could not fail to understand that piece of advice. Be Clear after we have leaned to write dearly Pecan try our hand at souffles. Proper wetting contributes to Darity. Last month mail brought some depressing exam ski of Bow not to spell. The Canton Ohio repository let us know that a 21 year old Man bad been arrested on a warrant charging him with Disse lion from the navy.". In the Fred in Casburg a free Lance Star a Young woman wanted "10 get away from the Hussle and Buttle of  Missouri paper quoted  we Bike for fun exercise and Rantman Tery. In the Columbus Ohio dispatch a feature write noted that Deadwood s.d., once was a Boom own for sough Dours roughnecks and murdering scout  new York times of All papers reported an income agitating  the Las vegas Sun a staff writer covered a demonstration of yogic flying. This is a program of transcendental meditation called sindhi. Sindhi in san script Means  there you have a spelling we could do without in Florence. , the morning news quoted the school superintendent on the consequences of cutbacks in fund ing. If the cutbacks continue the District win lose it ability to give a Bonifield High school degree.1in the Miami Herald a furniture store advertised a Sale of floor samples it s positively the most Chick scratch and Dent Sale in town at ridiculously Low price.". The Knox Viitel Teutul journal took a shot at Michigan Congress Man John Minaeil whose Talent ii in showing his acini  in Public tool the Chicago Tribune s Man in Johannesburg South Africa reported that progressive Helen Suzman is not loathe to give Botha credit for the racial reforms he has carried out the preferred spelling of the adjective is  the verb takes an  the purpose of writing As All of us know is to transmit a message from the pen of a to the mind of b. Hard words and misspelled words Jam the trans Mission. 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