European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday March 21, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 teen Ager gets maximum score in every subject by . Arb1ngton Doke Kane Nutem Bureau zwe1brocken. West Germany Thi kid � Trail in Cool he can a Rar a port Coal and Iff to a Hoot almost every Day of the year and gel away with. So Cool be can kid president Reagan about Oft Crin the nation s Leader a Job once the retiring president leaves office next year. Rick Speer. Straight a student at Zweir Ticken High school. Concert i Anisi. National Honor society presi Dent. Champion cocktail Glass ii rfcs. World traveler. Bon Viva til and. Most recently Winner of scholarship from the veterans of foreign wars for b broadcast scrip on patriotism in the group s voice of democracy Tomn coition. Sneer s script was judged to have made inc most compelling Case for american patriotism and Liberty out of about 500,000 entries submitted by american Len Agen from across the United states. Europe and the Pacific. On March 10, Speer returned from a we Klong expenses paid stay in Washington where he and 52 of fir top regional finishers in the contest dined attended the theater and touted the sights Couney of he vow. Before inc slay ended Speer had been named no Mem Uno in the Competition. Recognisable by the omnipresent tic and spot cant or conservative Cardi Gans he prefers for school attire Speer cams Money through playing concerts in inc Scarbr Tocken Saar Louis area. He also is a consultant to the German ministry of German american relations. Not one to Lei a Chance to travel slip by he s bound for Morocco during Spring break on a Lour composed Pri Marily of German tourists to Sec the country and practice his German. He i hit own said John Middleton Zweir Ilcken High Princi pal. He respected and admired by Al the Slu Denti 1 just wish i had hair the creative Talent he tie 17-year-old High school senior Learned during Christmas vacation he d been selected to represent the european Region in the contest when be heard of he Honor Speer Ever the sophisticate was lounging in a hoi tub in Florida. I started screaming like mad he recalled. To compete participant submit recordings of themselves Reading the scripts they have written. Participation is open to american High school Stu dents in i oth through 12th grades. Hit winning script contrasted . Symbol of Freedom the Liberty Bell and the statue of Liberty with a 193 Ion Bell displayed near the Kremlin i Moscow and die Brancusi statue in a Bucharest Romania museum. The lanes Bell in Ibe world is near the Kremlin Speer said. It May be bigger than our Liberty Bell but ii can Thold a Finger to i its life overseas gave him a different perspective than other contestants on inc contest theme America s Liberty our a lot of them said How can you win you re not even really Ameri can " sneer said of his competitors. "1 wanted to say pm More of an Aracri can than you. Because i be seen differ ent systems of government socialist communist in the soviet Union Africa i know for one ii t Given me a Bel Ter appreciation of what we have so Many of them Lake their Liberty for Gran cd. If they could travel to rus Sia or Romania they would see How very fortunate they Are he said. Rick spew my Mitsn beat. He Eren joked with president Engin. Sparr s Stepfather and Mother. Cor Belt and Janic Myers left Europe Las year to live in Florida. To finish school Al Wei Brincken up car lives with Bill and Mary Anne Carter who Leach there. As for the 116.000 scholarship Speer Plant in attend the University of Central Florida his freshman year then Transfer to the University of Southern California to study wants i direct films. Which leads up car to Tell a Story about his trip to Washington and Hii audience with Reagan. After congratulating up car on his award the Farmer movie actor note the Young Man s interest in working in the film Industry up car recalled that the president said this is quite important to me because in less than year i la be out of a everyone laughed. Speer said. Then i said. Til give you a Call. Or president he Bui finally what does this teen age Paragon of virtue Good manners and presidential repartee do to let his Short Cut hair Down 1l lakes a moment for Speer to come up with an answer. When he does he refers to his trip to Washington and a certain occasion when be and his com patriots from the contest went to the theater and drank mock Lails mixed drinks without alcohol during the had a contest to see who could twirl the Glass the fastest on inc Salt Shaker Speer said. Naturally he won. Citizens train gathers steam for Cap a trip Seattle a Well wishers waved goodbye saturday to about 75 people who boarded a citizens train bound for Washington ., where they intend to lobby for new National budget priorities. They will ask lawmakers to spend less for weapons and More for improved housing health care education and car for the environment. Several dozen people held a rally Fri Day carrying signs with messages such As citizen budget More for Chil Dren less for about 7s people from Washington 175 More from Oregon 20 from califor Nia and a few from other Western Stales planned to Board trains Over the week end and meet in Chicago on monday. The travellers then were to Board a Tram bound for Washington While on Board riders plan to attend workshops on lobbying strategies the Federal budget process education health care and the Constitution they Are id beet by supporters at stops along the Way. They la arrive tuesday in washing Pat where they plan to rally on the Capitol Steps and be greeted by astronomer cart Sagan. British probing Why two soldiers who were killed ignored orders Belfast Northern Ireland a the British army said sunday it has begun an investigation to determine Why two soldiers murdered alter encounter ing an Irish Republican army funeral procession ignored instructions to stay away from the mourners. All soldiers in the British ruled prov Ince were told that the funeral was taking place on saturday and were warned to steer Clear an army spokesman said Sun Day. The two corporals should not have been where they were and we Are inter ested in examining How that came about said the spokesman speaking anonymously in keeping with British custom. They would have been briefed about the route of the funeral procession an the two corporals were not expected to be there and had no requirement to be Cpl. Derek Wood 24, and Cpl. David Howes 23, were shot dead saturday after funeral mourners dragged the from their unmarked car beat them unconscious and stripped them naked. The outlawed Ira said in was responsible fur their deaths and the Royal Pliler constabulary Northern Ireland s police Force said it was questioning three people. Both soldiers belonged to the Royal corps of signals a regiment often engaged in highly secret monitoring of communications. Wood joined the army in Aptil 1980 and Howes in August 1981. The army spokesman said they were travelling in civilian clothes Between the Belfast in Headquarters near Falls Road the City s main Catholic District and bar Racks in Lisburn the British army s Northern Ireland Headquarters when they died. There arc a number of possible routes available to them but in is a Mai Ler of speculation How they came to be in a place they were nol supposed to be in he said. However an army statement de scribed Wood and Howes As two Fine Young soldiers who loved the army and in life. Their restrain under the most hideous provocation was obvious to the entire nation the statement said the Royal corps of signals mourn their loss but is proud of him and will Long Honor their the soldiers were killed when they encountered inc procession following the coffin of Kevin Brady an Ira member who was one of three people killed wednesday Al the Milltown Catholic cemetery. In that attack a protestant gunman opened fire and hurled grenades at mourners As the coffins of Hirw Ira guerrillas shot by British commandos in Gibraltar were being towered into a com Mon grave. Another 68 people were in reasons that can Only be speculated upon they the soldiers became entangled in the funeral procession the army spokesman said. They were clearly trying to get away when they were boxed witnesses said inc soldiers car was engulfed by angry mourners who apparently assumed thai they were undercover agents spying on the crowd. A film of the incident viewed by Mil Lions on British television saturday night showed that one Man climbed onto the car roof and began pounding in with an Iron bar while others smashed inc car windows and dragged the bleed ing soldiers out
