European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago b the stars and stripes thursday february 25,1988 stateside California panel oks Exxon s plan for Channel los Angeles a the California coastal commission has approved a 12.5 billion plan for item offshore Oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel a plan first proposed by Eikon in 1981. On an s-2 Vole with one commissioner abstaining he commission approved Euan s plans for the platforms a Marine terminal and an onshore facility in Las Flores Canyon. But the plan which would More than double the slate s Oil production requires major changes in Exson s production methods. The company must dismantle an offshore treatment and storage ship now in use commission spokes Man Jack lib sir said tuesday. A 1937 agreement on air pollution controls was instrumental in breaking a political dead lock Over exion s plan commission chairman Michael Worum said. Manhattan High life Cost Rose 9% in 87, Index says new York a the Cost of living really living in the nation s most expensive big City Rose Marc than twice As much last year As the consumer Price Index according to a Survey released monday. The most  compiled for the put five years by Mol and Chandon Champagne shows that the Price of the High life in Manhattan Rose 9 percent in 1987. While the Chi increased 4.4 percent largest increases included 14,1 percent for 30 Grams of Beluga caviar up from 129 in 1986 la 133.25 last year 11.7 percent for a Wash Cut and blow dry at a top hair Salon from 160 to j67 and 10 percent for a Day maid service from s30 to ibs luxuries that advanced less rapidly in Price included 3 percent for a round trip new Vork Paris Light on the concorde up from 14,296 to 54,424 4.5 percent for a full length Mink coat from 115,750 to j16,500 and 5.3 percent for limousine rental from s38 an hour to s40 an hour. . Cat Stamps unveiled in cuddle some collectibles san Francisco us t four new Post age Stamps honouring cats were unveiled at a cer Emony where Catnip Fca and k.j1 Kat Candy bars were served. The . Postal service Calls the 22-cent com Memoria Ives Cudd csome collectibles and has printed 160 million of inc Stamps. Speaking at a news conference tuesday sponsored by the society for the prevention of cruelly to animals a Post office official noted that dogs were honoured on slumps in 1984. Ever since she said the postal service had been under pressure from cat lovers to give recognition to felines who number an estimated 16 million. Idaho artist John Dawson has drawn two cats on each stamp so that eight Breeds Are depicted. Spca director Richard a Niino said inc introduction of the cat Stamps could Lead More people to adopt a Fuline  critics of nurse memorial predict sculpture Garden Washington a now Ilia a sculpture of three Battle weary infantrymen stands near the Vietnam Veter ans memorial some senators want id place a Bronze statue of an army nurse nearby to honorific 10,000 women who served  Asia candid. Several leading veterans organizations applaud the proposal by Sens David  a Mino and Alan Cranston a Calif. But Maya Lin the Young woman architect who designed the memorial in t Happy. I cannot see where it will All end the said at a Senate hearing tuesday. What is to Stop someone from trying to add a female statue to the two Jima memorial Lin was supported by others who warned that unless officials Stop caving in to pressure for More additions the Vietnam memorial will turn into a Sculp Ture Garden of special interests ranging from native americans to scout dogs j. Carter Brown chairman of the commission of Fine arts which rejected the women s statue proposal last october said the original memorial now Bear ing inc names of 58,156 War dead including cig it nurses on its Black Granite Walls symbolically includes All Vietnam veterans. He said the addition of the sculpture of three infantrymen triggered envy among other groups who Felt left out. His commission believed that including a White army nurse would Only continue and exacerbate that process of exclusion he said. At a Senate Energy and natural resources subcommittee hearing Robert w. Doubek former executive director of the Vietnam veterans memorial fund said a women s sculpture would destroy the symbolism and aesthetics of the  but John p. Wheeler Iii chairman of the private fund which raised $11 million to build the memorial supported the nurse s statue and discounted the threat of a sculpture Garden cited by critics. Donna Marie Boulay a Minneapolis lawyer who served in Vietnam Ai an army nurse testified that the statue should be erected because nurses shared the intensity the trauma the carnage of War with infantrymen. She if chairman and co founder of the Vietnam women s memorial project a non profit organization founded in 1984. Durenberger t Bill which Hai 56 Senate to i onion specifies that Alfr a woman s statue is placed at the 2.2 acre site near the Lincoln memorial the Vietnam Veter ans memorial will be Complete and no further additions 10 the site should be authorized or  the Bill if enacted would require the three Agenda whose approval is required the Interior depart ment the Tine arts commission and the National Capi Tal planning commission to reconsider the proposal within 90 Days. The statue has been approved by the Interior department but rejected by the other two agencies. The memorial administered by Hie National Park service has become the most popular tourist Alurac lion among All the Federal monuments in be capital. An estimated 20 million peo Jalc Haw visited the me Morial since it was dedicated in 1982. Women Haven t come a Long Way from the Kitchen Survey finds new York a it s been a Quarter of a Cen Tury since Betty Friedan helped1 launch the women s movement with her Book the feminine  but a recent Survey indicates that women suit do most of the cooking and grocery shopping. When most could t persuade the men they live with to help out women of All income Levels devised i hair own methods of easing the Burden mainly by cutting the time they spend in the Kitchen the new York times reported wednesday. The times conducted Telephone interviews with 1,870 people nationwide Between oct. 29 and nov. 5. The newspaper found that while More women Are in the work Force and have less time at Home they re main the primary care givers and the ones who pay attention to How when what and where their families  among married couples surveyed Only 18 percent of men said they do the family s main food shopping 6 percent More said they share the responsibility with someone else at Home. Mun while 91 percent of married women said they do the shopping with 3 percent saying the chore is shared. Working full time outside the Home did t seem to make much difference. The study found that 90 per cent of married women who work full lira said they do the principal family shopping. As for preparing meals 90 percent of married women surveyed said they do most or All the cooking in their Homes compared with just 15 percent of mar ried men. Last month a Magazine Survey reported that 77 percent of working mothers queried said they prepare dinner by themselves and 64 percent said they do the after dinner cleanup alone too. In its february Issue. Working Mother Magazine the wives do it in percent of surveyed working wives who almost Ati Wysor prepaid Tho lamely s Lai Ritums 29% paint or put up wallpaper Chicago try min graphic Soui con Winc bgi4 also reported that its Survey found 92 percent of work ing Molher respondents do inc laundry Reg Yuriy in their households. According to that study whereas husbands and Chil Dren do the laundry regularly Aboul 2s percent of the Lime 27 percent of husbands never so much u threw i dirty topic into the washing machine. The Magazine found that men in higher income families were much More Likely to pitch in than men in lower income families. Working Mother conducted ill Survey last april and Drew responses from 2,811 working mothers around the country. Woman s lawyer to Appeal no smoking edict Fine her cigarette puffing to a Small Tele vision room in the couple s Kings Point Mineola , a the attorney for a Chain smoking woman under court older not to smoke in her family s presence a s he will Appeal the decision As outrageously  int order barring Elizabeth Roo fun 41. From smoking in front of her Hus band and their three children was issued tuesday by Justice Ralph Diamond of the trial level stale supreme court. Mrs. Rooch also was directed to con mansion. This is clearly a violation of her first amendment rights said her adorn by. Loci brands. Who is going to enforce this. Arc the children going to become policemen and turn their Mother in for smoking the ruling is outrageously in constr Lul Lonal he added. Mrs. Rooch i husband. Jahanshah 42, a non smoking surgeon went to court in an attempt to get Nis wife to Slop lighting up in front of him and Huir Chil Dren Ages 6, 7 and 9. He claimed he has tried unsuccessfully for 12 years to gel till wife to curtail her iwo pack a Day habit. He described her smoking As offensive and detrimental 10 the health of the  the roofer who were married in 1976, have been feuding since May when mrs. Roofeh tiled for divorce an action which � pending before Diamond. The Roofeh Sare still living together. Mrs. Rooch who called her iranian bom husband an Ayatollah id the smoke just to annoy him. Ill quit when i gel him out of the House she said