European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Friday september 4,1987 columns today s crossword easy listening9 out of Moscow by Andy Rodney last year after getting a Start with a Long ladder climbed to the top of a tall Pine tree out in Back of my woodworking shop attached an Aerial and hooked it up to a very Good Multi band radio in the shop. So far i be been Able to saw Wood and listen to the radio at the same time without losing any fingers. The Aerial enables me to pick up All kinds of Ham radio conversations and foreign shortwave broadcasts. I m not a person who listens to much music on the radio so this summer when the Iran Contra hearings weren t on and i d had All the news i could take. I fished on the dial for something else. Often i d listen to five or 10 minutes of radio Moscow the English language broadcast from the soviet Union. In spite of Alt the silly propaganda it s hard not to like what the Kremlin wants us to believe. It wants unto believe Russia is hanging la wants us to think it is becoming More open and that dissent is More accept Able. It wants us to know that Mikhail Gorbachev honestly wants arms reductions. One Day there were Man on Lac Street interviews with people in the Ukraine. You might compare it with interviews a Chicago radio station would have with Farmers in a Small midwestern town. Restructuring is going very Well in the big cities like Moscow and Leningrad one ukrainian Farmer said but there is no Progress Here in the smaller towns. We do not Sec More openness and there is still no private Enterprise. Why i could t believe what i was hearing. This was russian propaganda designed to convince americans that there is now enough glasnost or openness in the soviet Union to permit critical comments about the government by the people. One announcer in answer to a question said. Openness and democracy Are growing everywhere in he soviet this admission that it did not have openness and democracy before is amazing stuff to be hearing from Russia. While it seems almost too Good to be True i m ready to believe it. We can t forever assume that everything the russians propose is evil. I be spent enough time in the soviet Union to be suspicious but this time the russians seem genuinely interested in a reduction in arms and there is unquestionably More openness in the soviet Union. They All want what we already have. Freedom it turns out is the in thing and we re Way ahead of most other countries. If the russian people want free Dom and their new government under Gorbachev wants to give it to them there s some Hope for the world yet. The Only thing that worries me now is that lightning will hit that Pine tree out there. A Tribune Media sir Tom improving on on Island Paradise Byah Buchwald no Man is an Island but that does t keep men from wanting to develop one. Perr Corine is a builder who came up to my Island to gel away from the Hustle and the Bustle of Washington. Is this All there is Perr Corine asked looking critically at a Harbor tilled with sailboats. No i said there is a lot More Inland la goons Ponds Forest dunes and babbling hmm he replied. You re not thinking of building a Motel on this Island Are you i asked in horror. No i m on vacation. But if someone were to give me an option on this Farmland Over Here i would drop my vacation plans to conclude the i know the Farmer. The land in t for All land is for Sale if you offer the right Price. Of course i d have to buy the air rights and go up 20 stories but it would be Worth it to get a View of the Harbor and the Ocean at the same come on Peregrine Lei s go to the i m glad you mentioned that. Why Don t we open a Beach club and sell memberships for s2 5,000?" we Don t need a Beach club. We want the Island to remain the Way it has been since indians first came Here to get away from Burn out and the Rush we won t change it Well make it better Perre Grinc said. We could build a shopping Center there can t be any objection to there Aren t enough people on the Island to sup port a shopping Center i said. Then Well build an apartment Complex with a six Lane Highway so people will be encouraged to come Here and spend their Perr Corine you came to the Island to get away from it All. Why do you want to wreck the place when 1 see a piece or empty land i have to build on it or i get a headache. You people Don t know How to live. You can t get by without fast food stores stadiums Tor Rock concerts and cellars Tor discos once they Are built All Good things will we Don t want to do anything Here but if you like fishing i la build a Marina with Glass bottomed boats. You ii make a mint on people who live on the Island Don t want to make Money. 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