European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday november 25.1986 Aspin charges confusion in . Arms control policy Washington a the chairman of the House nuclear ballistic missiles within 10 services committee monday charged Itiat the and he called he idea a slinking fish and said it was not ministration is in disarray on arms control issues and pre studied before the Summit meeting by the joint chiefs of ident Reagan is incapable of grasping the details of Uncle staffer Adelman s disarmament Agency. A arms negotiations with the soviet Union. Challenged by Adelman however. Aspin said the idea of we All know one person we cannot listen to is attic Banning ballistic missiles is Worth looking into. When president rep. Les Aspin a wis. Said at a hearing on Adelman asked if it was a bad idea Aspin responded i inc .-Sovicl Summit meeting in Reykjavik Iceland. The de tails on this ii not his Aspin accused Reagan of no having a grasp of nuclear issues after the Umid Stales arms control director Kenneth a Adlman testified that the president s word would be the final one on Banning ballistic mis Siles and other Reykjavik proposals. Then we re in real Aspin shot Back. Adelman puffed on his pipe and did not respond. Laughter echoed through the hearing room in the Ray Virn office chairman then moved on to question Adelman about Cagan i plan to find a Way to shield inc United states from nuclear attack and about his offer to share the technology with the soviet Union. Most of Aspin s fire was concentrated on Reagan s proposition to soviet Leader Mikhail that the two sides negotiate a Way to ban All their Kenneth Adelman Don t the chairman s accusation of disarray stemmed from what Aspin saw As a conflict Between Adelman s testimony on a mis Sile ban and what assistant Secretary of defense Richard n. Perle told the committee last Fri Day. Adelman said the proposal had been de pm phase red Ai the Geneva Switzerland arms control talks with the soviets but remained on the table. Pyrle. How Ever described a ballistic missile ban As an important part of . Negotiating package. These hearings might be titled who s in charge Here " Aspin said. He pressed Adelman to say who spoke for the administration on arms control. Adelman said All the witnesses who appeared before the com Mittee spoke for the administration. However the arms control director said if there is one sin Gle voice it is Ronald Reagan it was at that Point that Aspi questioned the president s credentials. Route 66 signs off at dead end Austin Texas a it waste end of the Road for route 66. The last 116 signs that marked the famous . Highway s route across the Texas Panhandle now superseded by the decidedly in romanic interstate 40 were sold at auction. Glen wont of Elpaso who plans to open the 66 restaurant & bar there paid $450 each for four signs to decorate his establishment along with seven 2-foot-Squarc signs for $70 each. James Tullos of Athens thought$70 was a Good Price so he bought up 116 of the smaller signs. He said he wanted them As just an invest ment " and immediately sold therefor s80 apiece to buyers who did t gel their bids in soon enough. I was hoping for maybe four signs. 1 would Nave been tickled to death said Tullos wife. Cher by who had successfully bid for one of the Large signs and bought one of the smaller ones for $72 before the Price dropped and her husband made his 17.910 Pur Chase. I m nol so Happy there s not going to be anymore Leo Wood of Elgin Aid of the signs for route 66, which Heiran Clad when he lived in Arizona and visited California. It s the endow an Era. That s Why these Are to important. That style of life is Are you Boring people Here Ore telltale signs new York a Joe complains about his life when he s not rattling on about some esoteric thing asks a lot of questions and mumbles us Liun a lot when you talk. Jack keeps calling things far out tells you his feelings and just tries too hard to be . Who is More Boring new studies suggest it s Joe. The research is among the first in interpersonal boredom a line of study thai could Lead to help for chronically and excessively Boring persons research ers wrote in the november Issue of Ute journal of personality and social psychology. We re All Boring sometimes and we re All inter Esting sometimes but some people Are More Boring than others said Mark Leary assistant psychology professor at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem n.c., who wrote the report with three students. Harry Reis psychology professor at the University of Rochester in new York called the work a first step in a. Whole new direction thai we need to know More about the experiments were based on a Survey of under graduate students and analyses of Brief conversations Between undergraduates who had just met. More work will be needed to Sec if the findings apply to other kinds of people and situations As Well Leary said. In one Experiment 42 students suggested a total of210 things other people do that bore them which re searchers distilled into 43 themes for a second Survey of 291 students. That Survey found the most Boring Behaviours were banality such As talking about trivial or superficial things or showing interest in Only one topic and negative egocentrism which essentially meant complaining about oneself and showing disinterest in others. The least objectionable Behaviours were Boring in Gralia lion which meant trying to be funny and Niceto impress others and a mixture of distracting Behaviours such As going off on conversational tangents or overusing Small talk or Slang. An example of Slang is hey wow Man this was Farouk it was Loo Cool Leary said. It gels a Little old. A second study focused on five minute conversations Between 52 pairs of strangers. Transcripts were reviewed by 12 undergraduates who rated a randomly chosen person in each conversation for Borin Gness that person s conversation was separately studied for grammatical form and communicative intent and the results compared to his Borin Gness the study found that More Boring people tended to talk less in addition their conversation tended to have higher proportions of questions and of simple acknowledgements that they were listening such As on the other hand they were not reporting Ihei rown feelings and attitudes and opinions As much As the less Boring people were lean1 said. And they mad fewer statements of fact he said in sum it meant that he Boring people were avoid ing two common ways of conveying interesting information while their questions and acknowledgement were not Likely to hold another s Nairn icon very Long researchers wrote. Mihaly Csik Szentmihalyi chairman of the behavioural sciences department at the University of Chicago said it made sense that just revealing one s feelings did not increase Borin Gness while complaining about one s of to show that you arc willing to Trust the other person so you can reveal Cam of yourself he said. That kind of makes people interested As Longas one does t keep asking for sympathy by com new research appears to help us understand a Lille bit better what makes for Boring interaction he said. "1 think we should also know More about what makes people exciting to be with democrats chief urges end to party bashing Washington a democratic party chairman Paul g. Kirk or. Want democrats to Stop acting like. Well like democrats. At a meeting sunday of the democratic National committee the chairman told leaders of his often fractious part that it was Lime to discourage negative polarizing and party bashing Cam to do that the chairman said he would come up with a code of conduct for candidates local panics and interest groups. Exactly what he would include in his code Ana How he would enforce it remained unclear. Let s be realistic in terms of what Power of sanctions a chairman has the Best i can do probably is to set a tone Kirk told a news conference after the democrats ended three Days of meetings. The chairman already has put pressure on state parties to abandon the practice prevalent in 1983, of holding Straw polls to test the strength of various aspirants for the presidency. He also said voters want to hear not so much debates about rules and so Forth they want to hear about the issues and what s going to make a difference for referring to special interest groups Kirk said there Are diverse groups within the party that May have i hair own particular issues and sometimes they impose really Lough standards on som of the presidential while the democrats might be sympathetic to the Aims of such groups he said we want to keep the dialogue on the issues that arc Central to All Kirk already has had a Cool reception from the Al Cio to his suggestion that the labor federation refrain from an Early endorsement of a candidate for the 1988 democratic presidential nomination. The process of competing for endorse ments from labor women and teachers waa widely viewed As damaging to Wal Ter f. Mondale i presidential candidacy in 1984, Mondale the critics said was paying too much heed to the various groups with special interests. Party spokesman Terry Michael said the motivation for establishing such a code was so we can win in 1988, so Wedon t shoot ourselves in the Michael insisted thai the cede is no directed at a particular candidate and specifically that it is not aimed at so far Jackson has refused to heed appeals from Kirk and others that be top attacking party rules. Jackson also his mid there m a Chrane to have the party wove its manhood to Whites by showing 8 a parity to be unkind to
