European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 27, 1987 the stars  stripes Fao envoy retiring Fenwick style simplicity frugality honesty remain As Hallmarks of sex congresswoman Rome a True to style Mil Icem Fenwick is slaying with friends rather than spend . Taxpayers Money at a hotel before resuming Home of begin retire in Cal at the  of 77. "1 had to gel out of my apartment because a col league wants it said Fenwic pc a former four term new Jersey congresswoman i m staying Wilh an old Friend so there s no cd Pec for anybody. I be always been terribly aware of spending Olbur people s i was so Hurt when i got to Congress. All they would say was pipe smoking grandmother " Millicent Fenwick  she ends her four year Sling As the first . Ambas Sador to the . Food  agriculture organization in the same style she began it. When she came to Rome in August 1983. She turned Down the Cadillac limousine that went with the Job. When of Are involved with an Agency de signed to help the starving a Chevrolet a Ford or a Plymouth please. A certain restraint is called for she said. Fenwick was interviewed in her modest office in . Embassy Annex near via Venlo. She smoked the pipe that has become her trademark  helped inspire inc character of Lacey Davenport in the comic  the slender Gray haired grandmother of 1j turned 77 on wednesday. She leaves saturday for Home a 50 room French provincial mansion in be Cardsville no i Haven t got any plans she said. In t that Hea Venly i Don l want to commit myself to  Fenwick served in the new Jersey site government before being elected in 197-1 to Congress. President Reagan named her to the Fao after she lost a Senate race in 1982. Before get Ling Inlo politics she modelled for Harper s Bazaar Magazine  spent 14 years As a writer  editor at Vogue Magazine. Fenwick married in 1932  had two children but she was divorced in 1940  has not remarried. One of her pipes sold for si25 at a Owca auction in Plainfield nj., last year but she admitted i was so Hurt when i got o Congress. All they would say was pipe smoking grandmother  i would say for god s Sake hard working grandmother same number of syllables but i Couton t persuade  the Fao sponsors projects for development of Agri culture fisheries  forestry in developing countries. Fenwick said ii  other International agencies arc not doing enough to help those they were meant to serve. We have marvelous  she said  from the Best universities in the world. Good will High intellect great plans lots of time lots of Money  we Don l get very far. If we re going to make these programs really useful we be got to get Down to the Village  listen to the people. We cannot Lake inc haughty View that we know  she said Stop thinking so big gents. Gel Back to the Small Village oriented  examples of successful income producing projects she cited a Tomato processing Plant run by women in Central America Strawberry growing along the Nile in Egypt fish fanning in Zambia a chair manufacturing business in Peru  a Day care Center in West Africa. She recalled the Day last year when a Cable arrived from Washington referring to a villager oriented project. "1 nearly jumped out of my chair she said Chuck Ling. That is the beginning of Wisdom in my  we get thin Point of View it s perfectly  Fenwick who says she is not a feminist believes development projects would get better results i More women were in policy milking positions. She said when i Start talking about these Village projects some of my dear friends among the men who run All these things i be seen their eyes Glaze with boredom. They Don l listen a Man s advice launched her into politics. She said plumber from her Hometown . Maddaluna con Vinced her to run for the town Council. "1 said what me they be never had a woman she recalled. He said that does t matter. You were chairman of the recreation commission appointed by the mayor so people know you i think you could archaeological Sites could halt Athens plans for new subway Athens Greece a snarled by traffic nearly round the Cloctt Athens is ready to Start digging a  subway system to ease congestion  re Duce pollution. Bui ancient Greece could get in the Way. The new two line 11-mile subway to be called the metro is designed to Cut through the heart of the City but if inc Tunnel diggers run into archaeological ruin they d have to Stop. Culture ministry archaeologists will Monitor All dig Ging inside the St Century . Themis Lockean Walls for example  will Slop the project to excavate when necessary. In areas where there Are anti Chi tombs  roads the digging should t be problematic said Elisabeth Palhan a government archaeologist. Bui if we find Large memorial that could Force the work schedule to  Wilh 3.6 million people  More than 6511,000 private cars in greater Athens almost no one disputes he need to expand the capital s current one line sub Way which dates 10 1904. Street traffic in Athens is heavy almost 24 hours a  metro is a Way of solving the traffic problem without creating a further pollution problem Micha Lis Var Rio a senior Public works ministry official  Andreas Papandreou has called the metro plan a priority in the City s bid to Host the 1996 sum Mer olympics. Preliminary tunnelling to lest Athens crumbly Lime Stone  igneous Bedrock is set for this summer Wilh construction expected to begin Early in 1988, officials said. The metro is widely seen As the Best Way to reduce car traffic in the cramped 5-Square-Milc commercial  business District a Maze of narrow one Way streets bus service in Athens is slow  limited parking forces cars  motorbikes onto the sidewalks. Exhaust from vehicles has been deemed a threat to people s health  already has damaged the 2,500-year-old acropolis. Government figures indicate thai since 1973 inc number of cars in Athens has increased by 160 per cent outstripping popu Lalic growth 4-1. The new metro routes would crisscross with an existing 16-mile subway line that links the port of Piraeus with Athens Northern suburbs. One new line will run cast from the ancient burial ground at Keram Eikos to inc Pentagon Greece s de sense Headquarters. A North South line will connect inc working class Distri Els of Sopolia  Daphne. Metro engineers say inc subway will be tunnelled it a depth of 40 to 60 feel Well below the level of the classical City. Bui because stations must be built from the surface Down the engineers acknowledge inc possibility of delays because diggers might run into some thing of Archa logical value. Plans for a station near the remains of inc massive Temple of olympian zeus completed about 130 . By the roman emperor Hadrian have raised concern. The station has to be built As far away from the Temple As possible because its columns Are so tall  so old said Spathari. We Don t want anything that could possibly make them  Millicent fam Rock. Lighting up during 77 panel meeting make  she did but it was her election to inc slate legis lature that touched her most. A moment of Awe she said when i went Down to the statehouse in Trenton  thought my god i belong Here. I am an elected representative of  Eleanor Roosevelt was a role Model. I always Felt or. Franklin Roosevell really jus always wanted to get elected but mrs. Roosevell really mean it Fenwick said. She took to heart the words of a rabbi who served Wilh her on inc new Jersey civil rights commission you will never arrive at the solution  never be absolved from responsibility of  int that magnificent Fenwick asked you Don l have to worry about Success. You just have to make sure that you be go something worthwhile Todo  you re doing your Best to do it. Thai s How i d like to be remembered. As someone who tried to be useful. That s  adm Nelson 1 presume restorer Lorn Pup mands Alap the shoulders of a Slute of adm. Horatio Nelson no lab la turn stands atop he column in Lanoa honouring his 1805 Victory out the French  Spanish Oft Cape Trafalgar. The 170-foot Monument la under going ils first major Facelift in 19 years