European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page in column the stars and stripes wednesday january 6,1986 today s crossword warning signs to watch out for by Andy Rodney you know you be gained weight if the steering wheel seems closer to you than it used to. Extra urge is a Little Small. The buckle Mark on your Bell has moved several holes closer 10 the end. You hardly Ever Wear a suit you turd to like be cause it does t seem As comfortable anymore. When you buy anything with stripes the stripes go up and Down not around. Your Loes seem to hit the front of your shoes More than they used to. It does t seem to matter if you have one More dish of ice Cream today As Long As you re going to Siart losing weight tomorrow. You d just As soon not have your picture taken. You Aren t interested in looking at old ones of yourself either. The aisles in the supermarket Are narrower than they used to be. You Don t weigh yourself every morning anymore. U seems As though they Don l sew buttons on As Welt As they used to. You re wearing your hair longer to make your face look thinner. Thin people make you sick. You. Really should t have another. But you always do. The mattress needs turning More often. You fold your arms or hold something like a news paper on your Lap when you re seated talking to some one so they won i notice your stomach. You wait for the next elevator instead of Squeri Ingon one that s full. You re nervous about pulling something new in the washing machine for fear in will shrink. Airline scats Are a lot smaller than they used to be. They Don l seem to be putting As Good Glass in mirrors As icy used to. You meet people you never listed from your class in High school and they say cosh 1 never would have recognised you you have to turn sideways to walk Between two cars in the parking lot at the mall. You never Wear a sweater tucked Inlo your pants anymore. The bus seems More crowded. When you re eating and something Falls off your Fork it no longer lands on the floor because in hits your lie on the Way Down. Your Best Friend slops and looks at you one Day and says. Hoy. Arc you Catt ii would be Nice if the United nations worked but in does t. Thai s what i kept thinking when president Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were talking. Their talks seemed Good but not great. The treaty provides for destroying nothing but weapons that primarily Alt Cal Europe. The weapons being eliminated won t reach from the . To the u.s7 or vice versa. Both coun tries still have the big ones thai will reach. And in in t As if the us. And Russia were the Only two countries in the world that could cause a nuclear War either. What if Pakistan India Israel Iran Iraq or even Libya make themselves an atomic weapon what Good does a treaty Between the United Stales and Russia do the world Ihnn the . Is doing some Good things but it never fulfilled the dream we All had of it. We wanted an All purpose International lather figure to make Tough just decision and keep peace in the world we wanted a supreme governing body that could decide All complicated issues of the world the Way the supreme court decides issues of Law in our country. The reason our supreme court works is thai we accept it. No matter Bow much we disagree with its decision we concede that in is the ultimate decider. When it decides in our favor we re Happy and believe in it when in decide an Issue contrary to the Way we wished it had we Crumwe and complain bul we still believe in in we dont suggest hat Congress should withdraw the financial support that maintains Ibe supreme United nation has t been As successful As we d hoped because no major nation is willing to subjugate ill sovereignty to a kind of International democracy the Unile states almost never got founded be cause none of the state was enthusiastic about it Ruig up any Independence to a Central United nations is potential Superman who never goes into the Telephone Booth to make the switch from his dark Kent image. It u powerless when it comes to International issues that demand real a Rengh. The Power of the Security Council veto emasculated its Genera Assembly to the Point where it can really decide nothing that substantially alters the Posi Tion of either the United states or the soviet Union. Most americans associate the . With Christmas cards and halloween. No country would profit More or is less not to accept final authority from the . Than the United Stales if a committee of Fth United nations were to study the Politi Cal facts of life in Nicaragua and decide whether there was right or wrong it would save us a great Deal of Money and angst. If there had been a Strong . That decided we were wrong going into Vietnam it would have saved America 57,000 lives and j1so Bilbo and dissension thai Tore it country apart. Russia would Benefit from a Strong . Because they d be forced to pull oat of Afghanistan and Proba Bly forced to Stop helping Cuba and Nicaragua too. The . Could Stop trying to Export its political philosophy and Start working to produce enough food to feed the now in does t matter what the -decides. We do what we want and so do the russians. The . Across 40 firm s7 cooking1 new wine breeder Herb s pro for 41 Sutra the ump 49 Prielu abbr for Armos a. Ii seems inevitable that the Day will come unless All Days end in a nuclear War before then when there is on supreme body on Earth that controls us All. Every country will contribute to its maintenance and in will have the Only weapons. It won t need Many because no one else will have any. The . Will have a Small tactical army a Parachute division for emergencies a Small air Force and a Small Navy. The rest of us Wal be Able to spend the billions we now spend on weapons on All the Good things of life. In Spring h mine s flowering output i nibs b kind of Catcher chemist bowling1 need 1-e a Tritton my Foft 6rk�l the far Side mind hey buddy not my kept Row out o the Armyl
