European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 14 the stars and stripes thursday december 4,1969 column let1 s Hove More about that Coke by Russell Baker new York on nighttime Ted Koppel inter viewed Lyn Nofziger and John Ehrlichman about what presidents should do when things go wrong bul u was late and i forget what they said. Thai s the trouble with Washington scandals. They produce Luch amazing numbers of amazing people doing amazing things thai like an 8-Yearold at a 16-ring circus i can t Sec anything for straining to me everything. 1 mean what about that cake Robert Mcfarlane the former while House foreign policy wizard look to Tehran on a plane loaded with munitions did the president bake tha cake Wai in a peace offering for the Ayatollah Khomeini sweets for the Sweet from he great satan maybe there was t a cake. Maybe it was just a Rumor. Vaguely i recall an  denial tha Mcfarlane had borne cake to Tehran but there had been so much other n is about his expedition that i could t remember  had been denied maybe it was the glory about his arriving in Tehran carrying a Bible and an Irish passport thai had been denied. I was disposed to believe the entire Story cake Bible Irish passport and All simply because it Wasso utterly unbelievable. When things really Start logo wrong in Washington the incredible becomes the commonplace. I was looking for cake clarification when i tuned in Koppel and saw Nofziger and Ehrlichman. Nofziger a Veteran Republican apparatchiks has worked both in Side and outside the White House. At present he works outside lobbying for clients who think a Man who has been so useful to president Reagan is Worth a retainer. Ehrlichman is also outside having done prison Lime Tor his activities in the Nixon White House during the watergate years. Normally when two sex White horsemen Settle themselves for a Midnight television Chat i punch the drop dead Button and resume Reading Marcel Proust but Ehrlichman is less Leaden than most he was he watergate phrase maker who immortalized attorney general John Mitchell As the big enchilada and de fined Milc Nell j Fate As to twist slowly in the wind. Ehrlichman was a Man who might also find Llu cake Story arresting. Maybe he could induce Lyn Nothiger with his Reagan connections to shed Light on it to Dice. That was before the Story of the Tehran adventure escalated from just Plain astonishing to stranger than fiction. Since then when television new producer began rounding up the usual to specs i have stayed glued to the lube in Hope that someone will de confuse me about cake Bible and passport. At ibis writing i am Only More confused about everything. In their Zeal to get helpful advice televised to presi Dent Reagan the television people have placed Pun Ishing demands on the nation s Molt Teleg Emady in Tervie Vable experts. On Channel after Channel i have seen dozens of congressional grandees philosophers diplomats historians and former White House Hacks panting from the exertion of getting from studio o studio on time for the next interview. Almost Alt know what the president must do but have seen none who knows whether Mcfarlane took the Ayatollah a cake and if so Why and if not How such an astounding fiction was born. I spent All tuesday night tracking Henry Kissinger travels from studio to studio. Though All others May forget the cake Henry Kissinger is a Man who not Only remembers bul also understands the significance of such things. Yet not a single interviewer asked him about it. Trivial you say it would t be trivial if the presi Dent baked this cake would it in that event my Friend you would be Quick to demand to know what else did the president bake and when did be bake it c Pew you time swell smells come As no Surprise by Dick West discovery that human beings As Well As insects May give off smells that attract members of the oppo site sex obviously came As no Surprise to anyone in the perfume business. For years researchers have made it possible to lure insects to their doom by isolating and chemically re producing certain scents emitted by the opposite sex. Opposite to the insects that is. Now we get word that the researchers themselves have sexy scents. Thus far however there have been no reports of insects setting traps. That May be because there apparently has been no move to duplicate human scents in the Laboratory. If and when that happens the scents May be used to bait traps. Not that trapping would Surprise anyone either especially Mamed people. Over the years Many luckless persons have been caught by innocently following their noses. Napoleon Bonaparte i understand used to drench himself with perfume. And we All know what happened to Josephine. Not that the perfume Napoleon used smelled any thing like he did. In fact he May have been trying to cover up something. Suppressing body odor was one of the main reasons Why artificial fragrances were invented about 4,500 Yean ago. In one of his stories author Douglas Adams wrote that somewhere in the universe is a race of Small Blu creatures with More than so arms  what makes them unique he added was being the Only race in history to have invented aerosol Spray before the wheel. Adams does t say so but i like to think that from such Humble beginnings sprang the perfume business we All know so Well. However have found that what i like to think May Bear no relation to reality. One scientist quoted in the National geographic said the human sense of smell taps into Alt our emotions and can make life pleasant or disgusting. That is particularly True at the dinner table. A perfumer employed by International flavors fragrance was reported trying to replicate the Aroma of plastic trash bags. Talk about instant nostalgia if scientists learn to reproduce the essence of trash bags to say nothing of Lacy undo things we re All in trouble. In the Days before modern Medicine the Geo graphic reports physicians depended on their noses to help diagnose illness. Typhoid smells like baking bread German measles like plucked feathers scr Fula like Stile Beer yellow fever like a Butcher shop.1 i can Only guess what a cold virus smells like. The geographic does not touch on viruses that May inhibit our smelting ability like the common cold other than to note that about 2 million americans suffer from some sort of olfactory disorder. Smell also influences our sense of table. 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