European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday March a 1987 Reagan plans visit to Berlin in june Washington West Berlin mayor Eicr hard ice gun said president Reagan on wednesday formally accepted his invitation to visit the divided German i Lynch june at the Start of Diepgen s 20-Minulc meeting with Rea Gan in the while House reporters heard the to leaders Jay the president would make a speech in West Berlin. Dick gun said Reagan would visit Berlin on june 12 before lying Home from the seven nation economic Summit meeting in Venice Italy. In s meeting were the Pocsi " his a also attending., Dent s new chief of staff Howard Baker find i Vional Security adviser Frank Carlucci Dick gun Sci an additional 2 minutes with Bush presenting him with a set of medals marking the 750lh anniversary of i he settlement of Berlin. Reagan will be participating in he City s celebrations of inc event. Dick gun said the soviet offer to remove medium Range missiles from Europe without linking it to the Star wars Issue was a great Success for Reagan. A Kjarvik Iceland Union Dic Pojen told i Means hat hit proposal a has been accepted by inc t reporters Alicr his meeting Dick Jan said West Elia ieans expect thai Alt questions  Aruj Klancic of conventional forces Wilt be taken into acc jul in  negotiations on the elimination of Nedium Range missiles. It it very Ncnary thai Oil these questions be consulted Wilh inc docs the French and All the other governments Zur pc he said. Research Institute to join cancer Educ ton program Washington up the National cancer Institute wednesday announced it will join Wilh a supermarket Chain to lest the effectiveness or a four year consumer education program aimed at informing food buyers about diet and cancer risks. The program will take place in 105 Washington metropolitan supermarkets operated by giant food inc. Giant s Balti More area stores will serve As a comparison group and will not receive the program. This is an exciting project that enables Sci to give shoppers important dietary information they can use at inc very moment they choose their food said or. Vincent Devita the Institute s director. We Hope his innovative approach will have a positive effect on Rood buying  the main message of the education Effort will be that there is growing evidence of an association Between what people eat and some kinds of cancer particularly Colon cancer. Studies also have tug Ted High fat diets May increase in Omsk of breast and pros Laic cancer. The cancer Institute Eneo Kajfes americans to decrease their fat alike and in crease their tiber Ina Kcf consuming More fruits vegetables a whole Grain breads and cereals sandfly eating less fal and fatty foods. A giant will  bulletins for Consumers will pulp acc department signs containing Sec Jpn lips and information on fiber Vitamin and caloric Content and will establish special shelf Price labels identifying foods High in Liber or Low in Choles Terol sodium and caloric Content. Sales data on several thousand items will be tracked in test and comparison stores to measure the Impact of the Edu cation Effort. In addition the Institute will conduct three consumer studies to assess changes in buyer knowledge altitudes and Behaviours Over the period of the study. Disk holds contents of 10 reference books Good show a Benjamin a Oto eleven year old Benjamin bureaus j wastes no Lime As he clutches the Tek vision Remote control after rect trin $500 from Bis Mother. Benjamin we he Money monday Telaus he did t Witch to for a year. Before the Wager Benjamin says he was watching about six to seven hours of to daily. Attle up Microsoft corp. Mesday unveiled a computer program \ a single compact disk thai contains the information of 10 reference books. The package uses the emerging technology called cd rom for compact disk read Onty memory this program is very useful to any one who spends any amount of time writing on a personal computer said Carl Stork director of marketing for Microsoft s cd rom division. Microsoft also announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell the pro Gram called Microsoft bookshelf along Wilh a cd rom disk drive manufactured by Madek corp. Of san Jose calif., fora total Price of $1,099. The references include Bart Letl s familiar quotations the 1987 world Al manac and Book of facts and the Chi Cago manual of style the american heritage dictionary Rogers ii electronic thesaurus the Hough on Mifflin spelling verify or and corrector forms and letters the . Zip code directory Houghlon Miflin usage Alert and inc business information sources a listing of information sources. The books would Cost a Little More than 1200 and would Lake up about two feet of shelf space. The drive is designed to work with International business machines corp s personal computers and compatible models. Bookshelf is capable of operating with 14 leading word processing programs. The disk drive from Madek will feature stereo jacks to link the drive to Home stereo equipment enabling users to play audio compact disks Benson said. The disk alone which will be updated annually will retail for 129, Stork said. The products were announced at Micro soft s second annual cd rom Confer ence. Cd rom technology allows for information to be stored on a compact disk much in the manner that music is stored. The Palm sized disks arc capable of storing about 1,000 times inc information contained on a single computer floppy disk. Jerry Benson make Ling manager for cd rom at Madek said scan Roe Buck & co s business systems centers have agreed 10 Cany the cd rom drives. Tom Lopez vice president of Micro soft s cd rom division said the Book shelf program is the first cd rom pro Gram designed for general Consumers. Bookshelf will Start to deliver the benefits of cd rom technology to aver age end users,1 Lopez said. Cd rom technology currently is used by hospitals data bases and a Small num Ber of business. Earlier tuesday in new York Eastman Kodak co. Unveiled a competing technology of optical disk data Stor age. Unlike the cd rom technology in formation can be added to or deleted from the optical disks and the Kodak system provides simultaneous Access to the same data by Mure than one user. The Kodak systems Are More expensive however with prices ranging up to $700,000. They arc being targeted at business users. Top gun becomes biggest seller in video history los Angeles not surpassing All expectations initial orders for the  of the Par amount movie top gun ave exceeded 1.9 Mil lion making the film Shaf target seller in video history two weeks be Forfar it even reaches store shelves. The previous recondite older was Indiana Jones and the Temple of doom at 1.4 million units. Cassette Disirio burrs and executives at other companies described the Advance Sale As unbelief  Paramount gambled on the Appeal of top gun which was the top Boa office movie of 1986, by pricing the cassette at 126,95, the lowest introductory Price for any major movie. As other Pidcoe Asselto manufacturers were Rais ing their prices to $89.95 on the theory that sales could be made Only to video rental stores Par amount was betting that a Low Price would entice Consumers to buy rather than rent the Tom cruise movie about Navy fliers. Consumers Are  said Gene Silverman president of video trend inc., a National distributor of cassettes. Many Small retailers who normally buy one or two copies arc ordering 50 because they have resold it to their  cafes Europe plans to Airlift limited quantities of inc video this month when the distributor makes it available Exchange spokesman Cape. Mark be sic i said wednesday. Regular stocks of the video should be on is Ore shelves by Early april he told the stars and stripes. The cassette is expected by March 12 at the . Military video Center Chain which has 19 outlets near military bases in Germany the top gun cassette is preceded by a 60-Scc Ond commercial for diet Pepsi since Paramount and Pepsico inc. Arc sharing an $8 million Market ing Campaign for the cassette