European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. October 16, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Reagan $ Little memory slips show a Man feeling his age by w.  Nelson Washington a like Many americans particularly As they get older. President Reagan some times has trouble remembering what he wants 0 say. Some say it s wiling worse and thai the president in 76, is increasingly showing his age. He does Grope More for words says Stephen j. Wayne professor of political science Al George Washington University and a student of the american presi Dency. Clearly i Hurt has been an aging of this presi Dent As there has been of other  this one however is older than the others Dwight Eisenhower the oldest previous president was just afew months Over 70 when he left office. Reagan himself said in a recent interview he Felt Des Perate because he could t Remc Mcra senator s name. The president seems now More self conscious about his forgetfulness and his age is a frequent targe of his own jokes a leading authority on aging says the Only thing the lapses show is hot Reagan is Reagan. The president s behaviour is becoming More and More representative of the president and not necessarily representative of people 76 years of age said Edward Ansello associate director of the Center on aging at the University of Maryland arguing that people become More individual and less representative of i hair age group the older they get. Be thai As it May on his speaking trip to new Jersey this week Reagan said "1948" when his script read"1984" and in some and ribbed remarks in the same speech failed to come up with the word humidity when he needed it. In an interview lust Friday with Cable news net work he had trouble remembering the name of sen. Howard Metzenbaum a Ohio one of a Trio of senators he had described As principal Leaden of the Lynch mob attacking his supreme court nominee Robert a Bork. Reagan was making Lite Point that the same three also had opposed chief Justice William k. Rehnquist when he Wes up for confirmation last year. If you look Back at the leaders in the opposition those against Rehnquist were three senators senator Amin s wife seeks German divorce Bonn a the wife of former ugandan dicta Tor Idi Amin appeared before a Bonn court wednesday to seek a divorce from her husband Amin was not present during the Brief closed door session court officials said. Court officials said Pilicy had sent a notice of the divorce hearing to Amir s last known address in saudi Arabia some months age. Amin was not represented by an attorney at the hearing they added. Sarah Kolaba Amin 32, petitioned the family court of Bonn for divorce on grounds of desertion and disruption of inc marriage according to court spokes Man Martin Lickfett. Under West German Law divorce can be sought on grounds of disruption of a marriage if the couple has lived apart for More than a year Lickfett old inc associated press in a Telephone interview. Lick Pfeil said he court would Issue its ruling in the Case on oct. 30. He declined to comment further on the Day s proceedings saying thai Dir acc cases Are carried out in closed sessions until a ruling is handed Down mrs. Amin fled from her husband in 1984, while she was pregnant with the couple s fifth child according to municipal sources who asked not to be identified. Biden. Senator Kennedy and Why docs the third name slip my mind the president said. Following an awkward pause he added i m still sitting Here desperate because i missed the third of  the third  speaking to employees Al the Somerset technologies Plant in Somerset n.j., on tuesday Reagan never did come up with the word he was looking for although he did find a substitute. Interpolating a Story about a hot Day in Washington he described Ilas in Enross of 100 degrees and about 100 . Moisture in the  this was also the speech in which inc president said the company s sales had increased by More than $10 million in 1948, instead of 1984. Later in a speech to the new Jersey slate chamber of Commerce at a Somerset hotel. Reagan said he wanted Congress to raise taxes instead of the other Way around although he quickly corrected himself. Reagan s spokesman Martin Fitzwater dismissed the flubs saying he himself has trouble from time to time remembering what he wan is to say. Presidential scholar Wayne however said in an interview it seems to me to be a sign of aging. We saw some of this with Eisenhower. He had three major illnesses during his presidency and he was a much older less energetic Man Al the end of his term. I think Carter lost a Little of his spirit by 1980, so some of thesis a natural aging in a presidency in a Lough  or. Lila Mcconnell associate director of the Divi Sion of geriatric Medicine at Gnu medical Center said that while any problem with memory in someone who is older should be  such lapses can occur for a lot of different reasons that Are not necessarily  in other words if you forget things it does t necessarily mean you re senile. Ansullo who described himself As a lifelong demo crat said u in t necessarily a sign of age either. Is he doing in because he s 76? god knows he  probably could say that it s not tin appropriate thing to say because people get less and less alike and he is getting less and less representative. There arc people 76 and older who Are Bright As a tack and there Are people much younger than he who Are absolutely vegetative. President Reagan gestures impatiently Ai he tries to find the right a during a White House speech. It is the wonder of human development that people become More and More themselves and less and Lessi Ike other  editor s note w dds Noimy cob l it Wanito Hort a Idi in Amo Cia Tod p Ess to i w Jonari old Arof has own known to Wigal if Al Fly displaying Down to Earth behaviour there s been no time fur Monkey business since be Rosha left the mischievous orbiting Monkey and his companion Dremo returned id Earth after a . Here they underlie Click Upa at a solid medical ins Timi. Nerosha made headlines when or was Able to her is Paw from its restraint. He nearly managed to Lirow a Monkey wrench into the Light with his put of i antics. $25 fee unpaid firefighters leave Home burning Taylorville 111. A fire fighters hurried to Tim Emerson s nearly completed Home when a Hlat broke out. Then they turned around and went Home because he had t paid a $25 fire Protection fee. There was t much i could say Emerson said wednesday. Just sit Back and watch ii Burn that s All we could  the fire apparent y caused by a space healer broke out Early tuesday morn ing. Emerson called Taylorville firefight ers to the Home which was under con. Striction in a Rural area Aboul five nuts outside the City limits. The first thing they asked me Wai if the House was covered by the fire Protection plan. I said in want he said. The second thing they asked me was if any one was in the House. I said no the third thing they said was we re sorry and they go Back in ii in truck and  Emerson 20, and his family then watched helplessly As the House and Sev eral Trees burned. The loss was Pui Aljo too. Fire chief Bob Morgan said firc fight cars could not have put a drop of water on in Vila of not without violating a cily  the fee applies Only to Rural residents those within if Taylorville City Lini Jis pm for fire Protection through Emerson who had been working Onich Home for about a year said he had t Given much Conidi ration to the pm pro Lection fee. Even if the fee had been paid Lucr son said his House probably could t have been saved because of the distance  had to trawl. Insurance will give Emerson enough Money to build a new House