European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page a the stars and stripes saturday Novemb 29.1mb . Foreigners dunked in sea of idioms Wash Noton a let i say someone suggest you do lunch before going to the Hill to Check out  filibuster on the House Loor. To most people in the Washington establishment that sounds like a Plau Lible schedule Tor an afternoon on Capilo Hill. But to other specifically those Notwell versed in idiomatic English the proposal might elicit Only a Blank dare. These Are the people who Are the tar let of the smithsonian institution american English Coune. Students in the class include German business executives French interpret ers sri lankan embassy employee bolivian housewives Ana thai Diplo Mats. All Are fluent in English except when it conies to the endless vocabulary of idiomatic expressions terms that Are an integral part of everyday Ameri can life but which leave a foreigner befuddled if he or she attempt a literal translation. For instance what s a Hung jury Ora lame Duck president or Why does someone say sorry Charlie when talking to a person named Mary what s a political landslide and How does someone put it on hit Tab it s things we take for ranted but that a person who it foreign would t know said Kathleen Diamond owner of language learning enterprises a Pri vate company that put together the american English course for the smithsonian s resident associate program. They la say let s do lunch and the Diplomat in t Jure what his response is supposed to  a woman brought in an and about Anele Cream. The and said something about crows feet said Pamela Monder who teaches the course. She said i know i have crows feel but whew Are they newspapers provide a Good source of Coune material that can help out in so Cial or other conversational situations she  of the headlines do throw the students because of the play on words like the business Page headline about a rash of Competition in the disposable diaper business. We have a lot of words coming fro Mihe Media in general that confuse Stu Denu Monder said. Advertising pre sents a whole new set of language prob lems not Only in idioms but in made up words like Dunlin donuts or the Hole Lotta fresh slogan on the Lif Esav Persad. For starters the word Dunk does exist As a verb in most other languages Monder  said the course was created because there was a big Hole out therein the Market students could learn perfect Boot English but would not be Able to look up in grammar Boob or dictionaries the idiomatic expression that come up constantly in Conversa  course coven Media a Fath commercial English Gove Lunesu English and cocktail English and helps familiarize foreigners with american Cus Toms As Well As language. For instance people from sortie Cul Tures initially Don t understand the Pur pose of the cocktail party Diamond said. I t this whole problem of standing and eating with your fingers to just in t something that they re used to  said. Another concept that it difficult tothe potluck dinner and the idea of making food to take somewhere Seand eat. They think Why not just do it on place or the other?1 texan finds eager customers for his drug free urine bus Ness Austin Texas a an entrepreneur is Selling drug free urine for j49.9s a bag in a business that a civil libertarian says could Boom As drug tests become More common. Byrd laboratories advertisement in an entertain ment oriented Austin newspaper says the urine is for experimental purposes  it guarantees 100 per cent pure urine. Suitable for unanticipated Unne demand the business touts itself As your urine special  owner Jeffrey nigh Byrd 32, said he was not interested in what customers did with the product. Buthe speculated the most common use could be to beat on the Job urine tests for drug use. The government says they have a right to take bodily fluids. I just decided i d make some Money off that because people Are going to resist he said. Nigh Byrd said he had shipped More than 200 or Ders from his Austin warehouse. The urine is tested then packaged in plastic bags that include a tub through which it can be poured. I m really startled that anybody would pay j49.95for urine. I Nave a s3 pamphlet on How to Beal the tests he  urine customers Are yuppies and student going out into the Job Market according to night Oara Lamarche. Director of the Texas cml Liber ties Union praised the idea predicting there will be a flourishing Black Market in clean Unne As the drug Truls become More widely used. In t thai great asked Lamarche whose group maintains that urine tests Are an unconstitutional inva Sion of  said the Sale of clean urine could spark second thoughts about the whole testing  Are either going to have a lest which in l monitored in which Case the results Are useless once this kind of clean urine Market gets off the ground. Or you will have tests so degrading and intrusive that most people Are going to find it very  or. Robert Bernstein Texas state health commissioner said he knew of no state Law that would prohibit urine  just dont think it comes under the food and drug Laws. 1 believe we have no jurisdiction Over it he said. He did not know whether customers who buy Unneland claim it is their own would be violating any Laws. Nigh Byrd who in the 1970s published the now defunct alternative press newspaper Austin Sun said he gets his product through a Deal with a local Bible stud group that he refused to identify. Thai has worked out very Well he  can report that elderly Bible students at fundamentalist churches Are quite  stranded Washington skiers leave behind Bill for $4,000 Glacier Wash. A the couple whose Camp ground sheltered hundreds of stranded skiers say their guests left behind a Bill As High As $4,000. Bill and Donna Jean Norton s 40-Aere Christi Ancamp u at Boulder Creek and slate Highway 542, the main route Between the mount Baker ski slopes an interstate i. Aboul 1,200 american and Canadian skiers were Saaded on mount Baker for three Days after Boulder Creek washed tons of gravel rocks and Trees onto the Highway sunday. At least 300 skiers moved into the Norton mount Baker conference Center for food and shelter. Others flayed in their vehicles a Motel the firehouse private Homes and another Christian Camp farther up the  sunday night there was a lot of partying and drinking going on mrs. Norton said thursday. Wetold them that normally we Don t allow smoking and drinking but under the circumstance i we would if the would keep it under  the stale department of transportation reopened the Road tuesday afternoon and the skiers rushed off the  then the nor Toas have been washing and dry ing blankets and bed linens cleaning Cabins and pick ing up utter including Beer bottles strewn All Over the Camp. Even More costly was the roughly $1,000 in Foo that had been stored for next summer s Camps. The Norton also must replace two $22 fire extinguishers that were stolen and recharge three More extinguishers that bored skiers used in Spray fights. Norton estimated that costs including electricity and propane could reach 54,000, Anu Ming skiers called collect when they used the Camp Telephone to reach their families while they were stranded. Norton said most of the Camp s income comes of tormenting the Camp to Church groups and donations from be skiers totalled 456.55oo wednesday i at sume people skiers will Send donation in the mail he said. He also said he Hope to recover some Money by Billing the whatcom county emergency services department but Cathy Schneider the depth Tenent s coordinator said she a Lent know Bow the county would react. Even so notion said he d still open up hit Camp if another emergency occurred that is what the lord would have it do he Taul stateside Henny Penny program being dropped from radio Washington a children s radio theatre is calling off its popular Henny Penny playwriting contest for schoolchildren this year because of financial troubles. The 8-year-old program receives hundreds of radio scripts from children nationwide. The Washington based troupe has staged the winning dramas at the Kennedy Center with a protest signal cast and musical scores. The plays we rebroadcast each Spring Over Many National pub Lic radio stations. Doris indy face a founder of the troupe. Said Thun. Day in a letter announcing the decision the group financial Strain comes from a tremendous negative bin toward radio drams for children on the put of Many Flinders other key decision maters and oddest of All. The Public radio  film satire on arms deals postponed by lbs to new York a the lbs television net work has postponed a satirical movie that had been scheduled for this coming week because it is about International arms sales and too similar to recent news events a spokeswoman said  movie. Deal of the Century a satire about arms merchants who run into difficult Etin South America. Lbs spokeswoman Anne Luzzato said the movie originally set for tuesday night Wai postponed because of recent news events the controversy Over the . Government i Sale of arms to Iran and the diversion or profits to nicaraguan rebels. Jeffrey a. Bernstein a spokesman for Warner Brothers which produced Eal of the Cen my told the new York times wednesday the postponement by lbs want for any Polit afm son. Deal of the Century is a comedy. They thought it might not go Over too Well. Columbus bus Drivers end strike return to work Columbus Oik a City  returned to wort thursday restoring or Tot after a three Day strike by 630 Driver Andrj chanic that was  a tute boat the state employment relations Board hum late tuesday that the transport worker Yuan failed to file proper notice of the strike with the Central How transit authority. Notices Wen sent to strike wednesday Fil ing them to return to work the follow Zajd a. The dispute Centera on wage and Aeverill other proposals by the transit authority. It seek to hire part time workers and subcontractor reduce the number of paid sick Days from 13 to six increase pen Allica for Abtene Thiim and Lysat Cost of living allowance. On wage the transit authority a Joel n