European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday. August 7,1987 columns today s crossword where do Oil the animals go Brand Rooney la s a my Story to me where wild animal go in the Day Lime. This morning As i pulled myself into my underwear Al the Start of another vacation Day 1 looked out inc window and Law a Deer peek cautiously from the Bushy Edge of a wooded area thai lines a pain leading Back from behind our House. The Deer looked both ways up and Down the path and seeing nothing and having no Way of knowing i was Wal Chez it from my bedroom window walked out into inc open and sauntered Down the path. I judged the Deer was just gelling up Loo the Deer had come from n place Aboul 20 feel be Hind this lit Ltd building i put up a few years ago to write in. I know the Deer sleep Uherc because the tall grass Between inc Trees is malted Down and there arc Well worn paths leading through the Woods. Even though i be looked Back there at All times of Day and night. I be never caught a Deer sleeping. Last night i went out Uherc at 11 . And there was no Deer there. Where were they there Are Lois of Deer around and it s always a Happy event when we see one. La s always hey look a  Deer have a remarkable ability Noi Only to hide but to thrive Side by Side with people. They often live in residential areas. You would t think there were any Good hiding places for them but hey seem to find some. I m glad people Haven t scared All the Deer away. They re so Nice. I be never heard of a mean Deer and they seem so vulnerable so Unwar like. I guess there would be Loo Many of them if a lot we run i killed by Hunters but i can t imagine shooting one. Bang bang you re dead. Deer Aren t the Only animals Good at hiding. I know they re Here but we Seldom see a Raccoon a Fox a Skunk or a Wildcat. 1 Don t know Why woodchucks arc so fearless and Why the raccoons Are so afraid of being seen. Maybe they come out just after dark because they know the garbage is Best after dinner. There has been a mouse around our Kitchen at night for the past few weeks. I went into the Kitchen to get a drink from the refrigerator the other evening and saw it. I can t figure where in goes in the daytime. I can t find a Hole anywhere that it could get in or a out through. When i find a Box of cookies chewed open i become vicious and decide to buy traps and kill All the mice. Then i remember the Only time did in and the sight of tic mouse eyes bulging with blood in its Mouth caught by the neck with the Spring a Rived bar was More than i want to face again i should t cat so Many cookies anyway. There arc times when 1 wish i was As Good Al hiding during the daytime As inc animals around Here arc. From Boesky to Bokker to North by Russell Baker the breakdown at first was hardly noticeable except to the trained Eye. The Ivan Boesky scandal for in stance did not seem especially alarming nor did inc discovery that Wall Street was swarming with Chis lers and matters of the Boesky Type. It was Only Wall Streel after All. The Chance to get filthy Rich had Al ways brought out the worst in people. Then the Jim and Tammy Bakker business with Jim and Tammy in and out of their luxurious Lakeside mansion always described on television As their luxurious Lakeside mansion even the sex Angle left Many Blase. Many were willing to believe thai wallowing in Money made Jesus love you and we had Oliver North enchanting millions with his passionate disquisition on lying As a patriotic deed suddenly alarming signs were everywhere. A Young woman with secretarial skills appeared on All to net works lecturing the Congress on Why americans some times had to go above the written  reaction to the breakdown divided into the usual conservative is. Liberal quarrel with conservatives say ing the russians were at the Bottom of in and liberals laying in was society s fault. There May not be much left of the Golden past for americans to cling to but there is still Basc Bau pure Beautiful and incorruptible began an editorial in one of i lie country s More flatulent weekly magazines. Two Days after its publication came the Umpire scandal. With All standards collapsing in was inevitable that baseball s modestly paid umpires would end up taking bribes. Dozens of them told the same Story Why should we be the last people in America to play by the rules when they came to me and said How d you like to make s3 million a year i said i m just As High principled As the next Guy and you know How High principled thai is " one of the umps who made 13 million a year for five years before doing a Little jail time said the club owner who bribed him started by saying Don t you grind your Teeth when you Sec these second Rale ballplayers getting million Dollar paydays while you struggle to gel by on that Chintzy salary we re paying this owner had seen the fiscal Light. A team paying the Umpire a million or two did t need highly paid players. As one of the bribed umpires explained to the Congress i want to make just three Points. First j Only took the bribes from teams that were patriotic and fighting hard to keep the league from being infiltrated by play ers who believed in foreign ideologies. 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