European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 17, 1988 the stars and stripes Paga 5 3 ports eager to claim mighty to if san franc so rejects battleship Missouri Long Beach. Calif. A san prune in s new mayor has a pumped inc balt Chip Missouri rekindling a rivalry among three purls eager la be Home to the highly to Anil ils Crew to spice interest from Long reach Calif. San Oil go and Honolulu. Inc Navy says it Wauls to Slick Wilh an ear Lier decision to Hase i lie ship in san Francisco where former mayor  won a Navy Competition to him it by offering $5.5 million in port . To Ever. Feissli in s successor. Artanus campaigned no Jim the proposal on environmental and other wounds de Spile Lii estimated s100 million a year in revenues he ship would bring to i Herity Thi Missouri leads a Batik group that includes four cruisers and several frigates or destroyers with a combined payroll Osmi million a year. Evidently the people of san Francis co Don t want it and we be always wanted i Long Beach mayor Ernie Keil said last week when tic joined local business leaders in launching a new Campaign to Host the world War la Era ship. For me affection Tor the Missouri in deck of which the japanese surren dered to end world War to in t All based on cold blooded economics. It s a grand and glorious ship said Myrrie Dawkins. A Bremerton wash.,councilman who is trying to drum up support to reclaim the ship for his City where it was Mothball cd for 25 years and attracted 300,000 visitors a year. The Missouri one of four battleships  in recent years is officially based in san Francisco but oper ates out of the Long Beach naval station while awaiting completion of the Pon improvements promised by fins twin. Long Beach is already official Home port for the new Jersey one of inc other newly activated Halll ships Agnus a Democrat has t formally conveyed his feelings to the Navy his spokesman scan Shafer. Said. However the mayor agrees with Community activists who say the required dredging would pose an environmental threat in san Francisco Ray and that re activating Navy facilities at Hunter s Point would Force eviction of artists in others who rent space there Shafer said. He s been very consistent All along Shafer said. He s opposed it and hell continue to oppose it Agnos has pledged to veto the s5.5million i the Money it approved by the City s Board of supervisors which endorsed the plan last August. The boar can override a mayor s veto. No Date has been set for final approval of inc plan. A Navy spokesman in Washington la. Kippy Burns said earlier this month that if san Francisco fails to provide the financial support then that would obviously Stop the Navy from going to Hunter s Point Elic were rep. Duncan Hunter a re publican who represents the san Diego area met tuesday with Navy Secretary James Webb urging that the Missouri be berthed permanently in san Diego. An aide to Hunter said the congressman is concerned about the economic Impact of threatened cuts in the Fleet in that City the Case for Honolulu s Pearl Harbor was pressed by gov. John wait cd in a meeting with Webb last year said Caro Lyn Vanalta a spokeswoman for the democratic governor. " even when the Navy decided to Home port the Missouri in san Francis co the state has kept a Little bit of an Ember burning telling them we re still interested Tanaka said. "1 would imag Ine that based on what s happened recently the embers Are bigger  pulitzer s Fae of Pam Beach divorce hits top 10 West Palm Beach Fla. A ruin nne i u lit or whose version of life in exclusive Palm reach i i the new York times Best seller Lisl this week says she feels no bitterness toward her is husband five years after their tawdry Well publicized divorce. This is my Valentine s Day present pull Ter said til reaching no. Id sunday on the National non fiction Belt seller list Wilh the Prie Puller the scandal thai rocked Palm Beach the real  the Book which on ils first Page Calls Palm Beach a Nuftul society  is full of gossip about the Rich and famous from Alfred Bloomingdale to barbra Strei Sand. There Are also descriptions of her cocaine use and sex Ual fantasies and realities. She says that the first Sims she slept with publishing heir Herbert Peter pulitzer she fantasized about making Jove too. Simpson the former Star running Back Tor the Buffalo Bills football team. Pulit or 36. Is surprisingly favourable to her former husband who has remarried and says he has not read the Hook. I married him because he was the Sieu. Smartest funniest strongest most intriguing and interesting Man i had Ever known she says in the Book. They met whether lint marriage to an upstate new yorker with a Home. In Palm Beach broke up. I n an interview she said she and pulitzer 56. No longer have any personal conversations. She says she once loved him and docs Nul Bear him any bitterness. Sadder but Wiser i be be amid that the rules Are differ ent in Palm Beach just As the Rich arc different. Both Are More ruthless. My Story is about that difference and my failure to appreciate in whether out of foolishness love. Passion Oral  she says in the Book. At the 1982 divorce trial Puli or and other wit Nesses testified about her cocaine use affairs occult experimentation and in general Gross moral Misc on  in the words of circuit judge Carl Harper. Harper awarded custody of their twin sons to her husband. Puller who has visitation rights got to Rovanna pulitzer in jays her Book s Success. Keep her porsche jewelry and some other items and received 12,000 a month Alimony far two years. Stunned by the ruling and outraged by the portrayal of her As she says in her Book a sex crazed cocaine addicted disciple of witchcraft Pulit scr refused All interviews and Book offers. Her Money gone she posed nude in Playboy in 19b5, received More Calls from publishers and changed her mind. A lot of it had to do with the headlines of 1982. Which left a negative taste in everybody s Mouth. It just gnawed Al me constantly thai that was a negative situation i had t taken care of said pulitzer a native of Cassadaga . Kleenex heir James Kimberly. Whose former wife Jacquice plays a prominent role in the Book As the third person in an alleged menage a trots with the pulitzer says the. Book is  you cat garbage it s utter garbage As far i m concerned Kimberly fold the Palm Beach Post. I have no comment on that pulitzer s in husband said when contacted monday Al his estate in orc Echo acc and asked about the Book. "1 have two Young boys to bring up. That s n full time  before hanging up he added that he has t read the Book. Other prominent Palm benches have said the Book is just another in a string of attacks on the High society enclave that prides its Lou exclusivity. Pulitzer said she has written in upbeat Book that s nol revenge oriented for Villard books with help from Kathleen  also says she wanted to provide a set the record straight account for her sons Mac and Zac now 10, and to present her arguments for joint custody in divorces although she admitted few people arc buying the Book for her opinions on divorce  saves her venom for Palm Beach. Although she no longer lives there she has an apartment just across a ship Ping Channel from her old stomping grounds and still shops and gels her hair done in a Alm Beach she says. The reactions she receives vary from insults to congratulations for her courage she  a eachers As a whole have always thought of me As an intruder that i married info a lifestyle i did t deserve that i did t go to the Righi boarding schools she said. A Palm Beach you have to be Episcopalian you can t be Catholic you can t be jewish you can t be Black t find thai All to he very  she said. Puerto Rico Straw poll gives Bush disputed win Over Dole san Juan puerto Rico a puerto Hico republicans monday gave vice president George hush overwhelm ing support in a Straw poll Boycott cd and denounced As illegal by supporters of sen. Dob Dole of Kansas Bush got 731 votes to Ujj for Dole. This proves that puerto Rico is George Rush country said Josieto Daphna. Bush s Campaign director for puerto Rico. But Dole supporters minimized the importance of the poll which is not binding saying the real Tesi will come March 20 when puerto Rico holds its primary. We Don t participate in Straw polls said Donald Divinc. A pro Dole observer at the Assembly. Well win where it Mai lers March 20."there was a bitter dispute Al the As Sembly when gop National commit item Man Edison Misla Aldarondo. A Dole Backer tried to question whether there was a  a. Ferry the local gop chair Man said the presence of 750 of the1.500 delegates in the general Assembly would constitute a quorum. Pole sup porters said there were Only 682 delegates registered but the Bush Force claimed More than 900 attended. Bush s National Campaign manage of acc at air said the puerto Rico results would give the vice president a boost going into the new Hampshire primary and also Send a positive signal to other hispanic voters throughout the United  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 17, 19-js president Truman told Congress that because of determine communist aggression he Musl ask fur additional military assistance for both Greece and Turkey. 30 years ago today. Feb. 17, 145 angry Stag Hunters blowing whistles and Hunting horns Demon Stratf in Dulverton England against a parliamentary Bill aimed at outlawing the controversial blood sport. 20 years ago foe a. Feb. 17, 1968 North Vietnam released three captured american pilots to pacifists Daniel Berrigan and Howard Zinn. Who had gone to Hanoi to receive them. 10 years ago today. Feb. 17,1978 Leon Spinks sent Shock Waves through the boxing world when he look a is round split decision from Muhammad Ali in Las vegas nov., to capture the world heavyweight championship