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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, March 12, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 14 columns the stars and stripes thursday. March 12, 1s87 Ollie and Gavvn hard to believe by Art Buck wa1d the producer came into my office and threw in script Down in disgust. A does t work he did. Who ii Wing o be Lieve the name Ollie for a Marine hero who work in the while House "1 got the name from Laurel and Hardy it  and Fawn. You want me to think there is a Beau tilt Tong-1 egged girl named Fawn who is involved with o Bunch of cowboys in the National Security Council. We heed Tome sex Appeal. You re not going to Getmen turned on from John Poindexter stuffing Tobac co in his pipe hold him. The producer said look i hired you to write movie about a president of the United states who used to be movie Star and becomes one of the greatest communicators in history until one Day he forgets where he. Parked his car. The Story line is  the president is shaking hands with Iceland Freedom lighten in the Rose Garden his staff arc stealing everything that ii not bolted Down in the White House 1 Don t see that in these pages. 1 wan More sleaze and  i said i have to flesh out the characters before develop u. To begin with i Don t know what to do with Ollie s Friend who flies All the Amu to Iran. The scene Ai it plays now ii Flat even when he is met by these ayatollahs and they hold hands and dance around the control Tower Why can t you have Fawn have a drink with Bud at the Tehran Airport bar As the piano player Tings a time goes by?1 the producer said. What would she be doing at the Airport in Teh rant she s wailing for Ollie who she thought was on the piano. But Ollie in t on the plane. He s speaking at Contra fund Raiser in Dallas Texas. What does Fawn do when Ollie does t show up t  flits Back to Washington and makes out More travel vouchers for  have some Good business in the film. The first thing i m going to have Ollie do is declare War on Panama and nuke the canal. Then i went him to personally Lake a . Atomic submarine up the Neva River and Shell Leningrad. After that i have him going to France and kidnapping the entire French parliament then he diet in a hang glider and carpet bombs the Philippines with Imelda Marcos shoes the producer said it s no bad can t you get him to assassinate somebody?""1 Don t Waul Ollie to do anything that s against the Tew because he s the National Aero in my  More question the producer said. Where is Fawn while Ollie is making mischief around the world i have her doing what any american woman would do. She s Home shredding papers for her  a to and it to Tow Webb has one strike . By Dick West Washington now that the nomination of Robert Galtes for promotion from Deputy to chief of the Cia has fallen through we can devote full Atten Tion to Senate confirmation of James Webb to be Secretary of the Navy. Surely the evidence against Webb is As dam Gingas any linking gales id the iranian arms Deal. U was disclosed that in 1979 Webb wrote a mag Azine article titled women can t  in bet snot grounds for withdrawing his nomination 1 Don Tenor what is. Not Only is it Likely to raise the ire of ardent feminists everywhere it also makes one wonder what sort of women Webb knew at the  might be right in asserting that the average woman can t compete with the average Man when incomes to physical combat. But verbally Webb obviously never spent any time around my House. Had he done so he might have reached a different  premise that women can t fight was formulated with respect to the . Naval Academy. He wrote that admitting female midshipmen in the name of Equality had sterilized the whole process of Comba leadership training maybe so. Maybe most women Aren t capable of competing with their male counterparts on the basketball court or football Field. But has Webb consid ered the debating society that s what naval leadership training is ail about in tit  midshipmen  i must say thai in this Spect Webb foiled miserably As a potential Secretary of the Navy. It la not enough to recognize As he has since done that the appropriate use of women is the most com plex manpower Issue our military has Ever  mean we expect More from our military secretaries than simply pointing out what the manpower issues Are i Haven t known too Many male Flag officers who would t Wilt before the Force of feminine logic. An when to comes to not giving up the ship women surely would be As obstinate As any Gridiron Nero say a Nav player who scored a winning touchdown against army. We All know what a great spy Mata Hart was. 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