European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 24, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Vietnam reporters remember the old Days new York a correspondent who covered the Vietnam War got to Gether this weekend to Swap yams Toast the dead argue about what in All meant and laugh about those official briefings they wiled the 5 o clock  the party sponsored by the overseas press club was sometimes Rowdy some times reverent As old acquaintances and soldering arguments were renewed. There were even some demonstrators. You could Call this party the 10 o clock follies. It was at that hour Friday night Dur ing a speech by Robin Moore author of the Green berets that the decorum of these professionals cracked. Moore began speaking about Vietnam but turned to recounting his adventures in Africa Over the growing muttering of his audience. You Are the first certifiable loony we re talking about Vietnam bellowed George my Ashur former correspondent for the los Angeles times and before that an associated press Bureau chief in Saigon. Get out when Moore held his ground car thur called him a seven letter word and called for a voice vote on the aptness of the description. The House was divided. If you Don t want to hear any More Moore said in voice barely audible Over the hubbub ill  for the 400 or so people at the 7th regiment armory the moment brought Back those free Wheeling Days in Viet Nam when they sometimes shared the danger of the Battlefield and often clashed with official spokesmen. Now some correspondents such As Marley safer and de Bradley of lbs "60 minutes have become stars and camera Crew from entertainment to night worked the cocktail reception. It has been 11 years since South Viet Nam collapsed and 15 years since thelast . Ground forces were withdrawn. Some of the correspondents went Back to former War correspondent Marley safer left with former spokesman Barry Zorthian who ran the "5 o clock follies news briefings. 1954, when the French were Defeated at Dien Bien Phu. The Pentagon has never counted the number of reporters accredited at one time or another in Vietnam but . Stevenson former editor in chief of United press International offered a somewhat facetious figure of 3,468. For those who attended Friday night s dinner Vietnam was not Only a Public Issue but a family affair. Their jokes about Minn the tailor who produced those Multi pocketed suits beloved by to correspondents and their jibes about the follies and a certain laundry Brothel in the boonies were for insiders. Barry Zorthian who conducted those 5 . Briefings As chief spokesman for the . Mission in Saigon from 1964 to1968, sported a Lapel Button that said ambushed no credibility Gap whatever the differences and they were intense. Dialogue continued Zorthian told his old antagonists. At least while i was there we never stopped  outside vets in combat gear pleaded the cause of those missing in action. In Side three members of Vietnam Veter ans to prevent world War i distributed leaflets demanding discussion of massacres murders and rapes committed by the United  Vietnam was the biggest Story Many of these reporters will Ever cover and one which does t go away. We never should have gone in we never should have fought that War and we should finally get it Over said for Mer lbs correspondent David Schoen bin now a commentator on he inde pendent news network. Keyes Beech former correspondent for the defunct Chicago daily news and the los Angeles times said the passion that divided the country affected the news corps As Well. I had Learned that War was hell a Long time before i got to Vietnam so i differed in that Way with a younger Genera Tion he said. 1 think Vietnam was a mistake. We should have won the  Beech proposed a Toast to the 254,25 9 South vietnamese soldiers who Accord ing to the department of defense died in combat Between 1960 and 1974. Retired adm. Elmo r. Zumwalt jr., former commander of naval forces in the Pacific and later chief of naval operations urged the Media to join in pressure on behalf of an estimated 2,000-3,000 former High South vietnamese officials and officers imprisoned in Vietnam an pleaded for More attention to veterans who claim to have illnesses caused by the defoliant agent Orange. One such Veteran is Elmo r. Zumwal Iii who is co author with his father of my father my son the Story of the son s exposure to agent Orange and of the cancer he now suffers. The Admiral s grandson also suffers a learning disability that they blame on the defoliant. Zorthian suggested a i another reunion of the group. Ultimately perhaps Well get some consensus of what happened he said. Family adds on to put kids in new school District Hartford Conn. A a family has Given new meaning to the term bedroom Community purposely building an addition to their House Fiat puts their children s bedrooms in another town so the youngsters can go to school there. Until recently Donald and Charnelle Rana Shouse was entirely in Hartford where they pay most of their taxes. But they wanted their children to go to school in neighbouring West Hartford. The town line crosses their 44,927-Square-foot lot so they re building a $20,000 addition that crosses the line and puts their children s bedrooms inside West Hartford s Boundary. The Issue of residency is up to the local Board of education but usually it is determined based on where the student sleeps said Karen Flanagan a consultant for the stale department of education West Hartford policy allows a child to be educated in the jurisdiction where his bedroom is located said Lloyd Calvert West Hartford s associate superintendent of schools. Calvert said the ranas have one child in first Grade and one preschool child. Mrs. Rana a $35,309-a-year executive assistant to it. Nov. Joseph Fauliso and her husband the Vic president of the West Hartford based Connecticut building corp., declined to comment and did not answer their phone saturday. Calvert said the ranas cited Quality of education As the reason for wanting their children to attend West Hartford schools. The Connecticut Public expenditure Council says that in 1985-86, West Hartford spent $5,111 per Pupil while Hail Ford spent $3,752. They did feel very strongly about it and they stuck to their guns Calvert said. I know because All along when i spelled out the rules i was not All that  about 30 properties straddle the Hartford West Hartford line but Charles Mccarthy West Hartford building inspector said this is the first Lime in his 21-year tenure that he can recall anyone adding to Hartford Home specifically to establish residence in West Hartford. My immediate reaction is that you have to give people the individual rights to make these choices said Thelma e. Dickerson president of the Hartford Board of education. Tax records show that the ranas this year paid$4,309 in taxes to Hartford and $163 to West Hart Ford a figure assessors expect to Rise when the Addi Tion is completed. Purdue awards posthumous degree to cancer victim 7 months after death West Lafayette ind. Up Purdue University has granted a Bache Lor of arts degree to Jacqueline Walters Aldrich. Deciding seven months after her death that she had earned it. Purdue s trustees voted to make the port Bumpous award of a degree in special education to Adlrich 38, of Delphi who attended classes at Purdue despite in tense pain from stomach cancer. The Mother of iwo died in april. University officials originally said Al Rich did not qualify for a posthumous degree because she lacked the required credit hours. A Doser look at her record however showed she attended two sum Mer sessions that qualified her for the degree without special consideration. "1 feel thai that degree from Purdue is what kept her going for so Long said Aneta Van sickle a Purdue Cou Seio who had been Aldrich s Counselor at Del Phi High school. For the last three years she suffered with excruciating pain or. Christian o. A Branin told the Lafayette journal and courier in May. We who took care of her wondered How could she walk and perform Ordi nary tasks indeed How could she slay alive and be so Active we had never seen anything like  Van sickle said Aldrich dreamed of setting up a clinic where she could work with retarded children but had to drop out of school when she was too heavily sedated to leave her bed. She was hopeful that she could lick this thing yet and asked about fellow students who were doing student teach ing Van sickle said. Purdue has received 15,000 from Anonymous sources to establish the Jacqueline Walters Aldrich memorial fund an endowment to be used for scholarships. Dog was killed owner must pay Simi Valley Calif. A a teen Ager who sued the owners of a dog he ran Over for damage to his new truck has won the $324 suit. I knew i d win because of the Leash Law said John Gusan 17. "1 did t really enjoy doing it but it was something 1 had to do to get the  Bonnie Treguboff whose German Shepherd mix. Brandy was killed in the sept. 23 Accident called the ruling an outrage. I am flabbergasted and surprised that Afler All the agony and pain we be gone through now we have to pay too she said after receiving the decision in the mail