European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars hid stripes Friday january 29,1988 column an excuse for every occasion Brand Rooney we All look for ways to Csc use ourselves for the ways we wish we weren t and for doing the things we wish we had t Over the years most of us get Joof at Sicuso. A Short list of the most familiar excuses would include i did t mean to do i overslept a Waint my it la never happen i dont know How 1 could have done such a thai s the first i was t myself when 1 did the Modem forms of excuse Are More sophisticated. The Parvon using a new style Chaae often avoids actually was wrong. I was trying to do the right you have to remember the this int As had As it rep. Charles Wilson a Tami. Has raised the Art of explaining away something he has done to new Heights Wilson the kind of Gung to legislator you d expect from Tenas. Probably saw a lot or John Wayne movies when he was growing the issues that caught his interest was Afghanistan s fight for Freedom from the soviet invasion. He and visited Afghanistan several limes on government Money As a member of the House intelligence commit tee. On one occasion he had even spent several Days inthe company of a guerrilla group with a pistol strapped to his . You would t pipe i afghan guerrillas to be the Only company a Nice gregarious Bachelor like Charley Wilson Chi owed keeping and it was t two years ago Ona trip to Pakistan he look along a travelling companion named Anneliese a Leshenko. You Beauty pageant fans May remember she was miss Usa world in f975. Miss Usa worlds Don t fall apart in 12 years and Anneliese is still described so knockout. Once in Pakistan. Wilson asked lobe town into Afghanistan on a defense department plane attached to inc . Embassy there. Use of inc plane is limited 10 congressional staff members or dependents and Anne Liese lev Chenkin was not allowed to Fly on it. The Congress Man made a big Issue of it right there on inc spot but Afler some cables Back and Forth Between Pakistan an Washington the ruling stuck and Loschenko was t Al Lowed on Board. Wilson waisome mad. Kiuon is also a member of the House appropriations commit and thai is Why the folks in Pakistan who would t let Loschenko on the plane made a big Wilson got Hack 10 Washington he set to work saving the government Money and incidentally gelling that air plane taken away from the embassy in inc recent spending Bill Pas cd by Congress one of the Little hidden provisions eliminated use of that plane by he people who had taken away Loschenko s boarding pass that Day two years ago. I people Are accusing Wilson of being vindictive and of having spent years plotting his revenge. It was this situation that brought whal i consider to be a in Anta kingly new approach to making an excuse for one t self. Without much Asa smile Wilson made this statement ii just can t help but look like this kind of spoiled congressman with a bloated sense of self importance trying to get Back at someone for not flying his girl Friend , sir congressman Wilson i confess the thought had crossed my mind but that explanation you just gave convinced me i was wrong and i want to apologize for Ever having had such a thought. And my regards to miss Loschenko Loo. I Don t specialize in movie Xcvi cwt but broadcast news is one of the Best movies the Ever seen. The writer James Brooks has done the hardest thing there is for a writer to do. He has made a movie about television news that looks authentic to the peo ple who know and to the people who Don t. The movie has whal we considered sitting Here together . Brooks did t take any chances with a director Chang ing what he wanted o say with the screenplay he had written. He directed it himself. I Don t want to go Over Board but it 8 one of the most totally successful jobs ivc Ever seen done by i writer. Whether it s done by an editor a publisher a producer or a director writers often Are coerced into making changes they d prefer not to make. I m not sure 1 can make myself Clear Here but As a writer sitting there watching the movie broadcast news i was convening whal was in his head to paper and then to film. He made his own words into exactly the movie he had in mind when he wrote it ave read an watched a lot of things that pass for masterpieces that were not As Good. Miss Edith Jordan Market Square South Paris Maine dear Mist Jordan it s great Able to write to wish you a Happy 100thbirthday. I be read about a lot of people 100 years old. But five never known anyone who was. When you were a teacher in Grade school at the Albany Academy in inc 1930s you must have been five times As old As i was. You Aren t even twice As old As i am now so i feel Dosedlo you say i know you and i do even though h s been half your life since i be seen you. So years. Once you know person though you Iton t forget 1 pc certainly never for gotten you wish re been a better student. You were a better teacher than 1 was a student my Mother always had a lot of excuses for Why i was t doing Well in school. He s the youngest in his she d say. He a very shy boy. He works Best when by my Mother was wrong though. It was because i was dumb although you never made me feel dumb. Do you think teachers Are As Good As they used to be there arc so Many jobs that pay More Money than teach in does that a capable person has to be a Martyr to stick attaching. When you were leaching jobs were scarce and a Good school had its Choice of teachers. 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