European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page z the stars and stripes monday december 21,19b7 just get through holidays is Pps advice bit of by Jank t to  ii a nov stall � Rit it Hanau. Germany holidays or for Cutie Viivi excitement is  liitle can he done annul the if support from .1 group overeating May be Avon taking off pounds sensibly or tops has helped people lose weigh for More than 10 years in Hanau. And inc tops people offer simple advice for keeping the pounds off during the Holiday season. We encourage people not to lose but to maintain their Sci Gnu said Carol Dur Halier. Tops Secretary. Just through the holidays and All jul functions and then  to lose As a new year s moult Burkhaltor also by ambry for Hanau s do nuts comics Rall commander has lost s6 Pound since joining tops on Jan. 5, i9wt burkha it and Friend Bonnie l. Tomc7yk, the group s Leader for the last six months made a pact about a year ago to lose weight. Without her help i could t have done  Burk Hollcr said. It was a question of nol liking one s looked and Felt matronly Anil Irand Mother. Trn probably a Rig through e giggled. Enthusiasm of Talland the 63 has lost last couple weeks have been for me Tomczyk said. The Holiday season has taken us toll and now i can Only claim a 60-Pound loss. "1 realize i have to pull myself up by the Bootstraps and try again she  the group s Leader pm encouraging everyone to watch what they arc cat Gand maintain their weight Liwe can slay the same i in we arc still winning the  the Hanau group works closely with a dietician in the medical program s diets for thend women a balanced die hut it on the individual s preference re Hollcr said. New members have a month to Pel a physician approved de sired weight and we take in from  tops is nol affiliated with any professional health group or the military bul the program does have a reputation for Success. Tops offers behaviour modification with group  said Cape. A Fin chief of the nutrition care  s Hospital. As dieticians  time to do that extensive  vhf critical 10 Long term Success veh people arc following approved diets. Tomczyk feels that group recognition is a major Factor in gelling people to lose excess weight and to keep to off. It s a Good support group and they rewards for weight loss give you said. Tops really recognizes she their people during conferences with differ ent incentives. Kings Queens and the biggest losers Are  become a mule family in your local  Tomczyk said. Everyone helps each of her and cares. You know everybody there has the some problem you do overeating. They Aren t going to put you Down for being overweight new tops members pay 112 Lojo in and receive a monthly Magazine an lots of support. Tops groups Genisl in several military communities in Europe. Hospitals clinics Public affair offices Community and family services offices May be Able to provide information for specific communities men women and children Are encouraged to come Tomczyk said. We even have a few ols who arc ont program Wilh  s founded in 194b in ill los Headquarters is Loday. By i groups All Over the world347,5 84 members. Tomczyk said. Iranian speedboats attack Manama Bahrain up three . Supertanker in inc Southern persian Gulf shipping officials said. The three gunboats attacked the 337,700-Lon Karama marsk at while in was steaming Olej pc Arab emirates a Toj Jfhn officials said. The vcssaliwt5dcn Wilh Oil and was a unmet out of the Gulf. The attack on the danish supertanker the ninth iranian strike on shipping in the Gulf in As Many Days caused minor ant reported. A Muffi Jef of Porti j a i11 vessel  assistance from a British warship patrolling the Southern Gulf but inc report could not be immediately con firmed by Gulf shipping officials. One senior shipping executive said the danish Captain of the Karama main urn of Abu Musa the Island used to stage strikes on  the Gulf. I a the rockets Al the Gian Tanker Happy Kari Friday As it Fer ried a cargo of kuwaiti crude Oil through the Strait of Hormuz. The Captain proceeded Al full Speed after the attack despite a fire an the deck that his crewmen extinguished and the soviets to launch Mir Relief cry Moscow up the soviet Union announced saturday a three Man Relief Crew will be sent into orbit Mon Day 40 replace the record breaking cos  i"1 f to who has so if _ aboard the Mir space station. Radio Moscow said the As yet unnamed replacement Crew will blast from inc Daikon our launch site in Central Asia at 2 18 . " on monday. A ii said the ref Oaut thai will form spacecraft into by been fuelled in anticipation of monday s Blastoff. The cosmonauts will Dock Wilh the or biting Mir Complex on wcdm1"1-T radio Moscow said it but partner Alexander alg few who has b. Five  will remain  a week Wilh hening to the Mir Complex consisting Otil. Mir Hub launched feb. 20, 19s6, and the quantum Observatory Hal was launched and linked up Wilh the station last March after three failed attempts has Crew quarters for up to six cosmonauts. Temperatures. Previous w i of 237 Days set cosmonauts Leonid Kizim Dimir Solovyov and olog Katov in 1984. Alexandrov joined Romanenko last july during inc first joint soviet syrian space Mission and stayed on Board the Mir replacing Romanenko s original flyer Alexander Lav Eikin who was or tto Earth Wilh heart trouble jail officials a that Roma Nenko and a he for Are in Good health. Long lorm  has a debilitating effect on  it saps Calcium from Bones making inc Brittle and unable to support regular body weight. For the past week the cosmonauts have been wearing a special vacuum Sui that simulates Earth s Gravity. The suit is expected Loaid readjustment. Soviet space officials now believe that a six month period in space is the optimum for Crews. Tanker passed through inc Strait Friday evening inc shipping officials said. Pentagon officials denied report thai an american warship the guided missile frigate gallery escorted the vessel Trail of Hormuz Inlo the the  Patriot a military chartered Tanker used to Supply fuel and Oil to american warships protecting  vessels in the Gulf in the sir ail on Friday the . Officials said. Ily teachers finely receive dodos cd teachers a dung Payd gym Italy finally received to Fol Check saturday a teachers Union so that i the good1 Lehman Nec Ulivelli seas federation of the bad news Thal the. Dec. 21, and can Fobe cashed Day. Ince officials had Jan i Promise id have Jin the hands of about a in Italy part Cal of defense depend said Ernie of the Over ire dated in Mon air Force to make late  teachers Foj Dentt kools teachers who begin their Chris Pafias vacation monday went Wilh of Leneir dec. 14 paychecks because of commercial transportation problems Al Unal school spokesman said. Trans Atlantic yuppies1 Exchange vows in Britain old Hall Green England a Shirley Williams a prominent British politician and professor Richard Neu Siadi a former . Presidential adviser were mar ried saturday scaling what he called a Iran Aibel in Yuppie relay  Williams. 57. Once regarded As a possible prime minister and Noustadt a Harvard University political scientist exchanged vows at is. Edmund s Church in this Ham let about 30miles North of London. In was inc second marriage for Bolh. She is a Divorcee with a 6-Ycar-cld daughter and he is a widower with a .19 year old son and a 38-year-old daughter. For the immediate future inc couple Mil Divide their Lime Between Britain  Stales. No Siadi. Who is to retire soon As director of the tvs Muse of politics Al Harvard s Kennedy sch Mil of Mern mint will by i ume an emeritus pfc Istir. He said he expects la Leach part time in Britain. A former Imbor government education Secretary. Williams quil the party in 1980 and helped found the soda democrats in a protest Over labor s move to the left. Neustadt. Author of presidential Omer was an Adner 10 president Kennedy and Johnson in the l%0s