European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday May 8.19hs James Kilpatrick has Jim Wright Ever rubbed a Rabbit s foot to say sooth the president and Nancy Are in a Pickle. The White House will not exactly affirm Nei ther can it truly deny that the first lady has been communing with an astrologer. The Wise acres ire hav ing the most fun they be had since Jimmy Carter Fougle of Fth killer Rabbit. The Story Brake on monday. Don Regan the ousted a hic House chief of Shaft. Has written a Memoir. A few paragraphs Deal with Nancy s consultations. It appears that Afler Chr attempted assassination in 1981, the distraught first lady feared for a second attempt. What dates she wondered might be Lucky or unlucky could the president s schedule be shaped accordingly she sought an answer in his Horoscope. When the snickers began to spread around town on tuesday press aides went into a Flap consulted among them selves talked High strategy and damage control Fly wednesday morning the Washington Post s Herb lock had prepared a Gleeful cartoon. What is to be said of All this for starters astrology is Trie sheer est hokum. This pseudo science has been around since the Days of the chaldean and babylonians i is As phony As numerology phrenology Palmis try Alchemy inc Reading of Tea leaves and the practice of divination by the entrails of u goal. No serious per Lon will buy the notion that our lives Are influenced individually by the movement of Distant planets. This is the sawdust Blarney of a carnival Midway. Vat the remarkable thing is that astrology co Liiv us to thrive in an age of Universal debunking. Sooth Anthony Lewis saying is widely syndicated. In its most familiar form tucked away with Dogwood Bumstead an the comic pages astrology attracts the attention of millions of newspaper readers. Love plays Rale protect self in emotional clinches. What has been elusive now becomes available. Be aware dial recent lessons can now be put to Good i have a granddaughter age 5, who Learned nol Long ago thai her prestige was Ris ing Romance figured prominently. No and Ihnn of course predictions uncannily bin coincide cnally come True. Beware the ides of March said the soothsayer to Caesar in april the prophetic fellow raised his fees and made a Fortune. Forecasts that rail 10 pan out arc filed away pianissimo. One is reminded of the late columnist Drew Pearson whose fearless predictions were 100 percent right so . Soothsayers turn up in several of Shakespeare s plays. In a comic scene in Antony and Cleopatra a scr tells Charmian one of the Queen s attendants you shall yet be far fairer icon you Are you shall be More Eclov Mithan beloved you shall outlive the lady whom you serve of Brian laughs. In comb clone an optimistic Sage has a vision of Jove s Bird the roman Eagle and this portends unless my sins abuse qty divination Success to the roman Host. Whatever these arcane arts May have meant to playwrights ancient priests and Monarch of the Middle Ages they rank today with Black cats and for tune cookies. Superstitions let us face it Are As com Mon As Dandruff. So Nancy consults an astrologer has Herb Tock never knocked on Wood for Luck do winning coaches change their socks speaker of the House Jim Wright reacted no Silivy to fhe week s revelations. He was glad to learn he said that the presi Dent consult Wuh has Wright Ever rubbed a Rabbit s foot docs the speaker step Over the cracks in a sidewalk the Only Consolation that might be offered to mar Lin Fez Walcer chief press aide to the president is the advice the philosopher gave the King. Asked to provide a single sentence that would he equally valuable in Good times or bad the philosopher came up with four words this too shall past trouble is. As Marlin knows some things take along time in passing. Ridicule is the most disastrous of All afflictions in political life. One can endure Mere calamities Graver Cleveland s Bastard child. Nixon i missing tapes Reagan s arms to the Ayatollah. If the Little things that cling in Public memory like burrs in � Collie s Coal. We May not remember much about Gary Hart but we will remember the boat in which he bounced on to Bimini with the blonde in his Lap twas the Good ship Monkey business. Hang Tough Marlin other presidents have weath ered storms of mockery. Remember when Jimmy car Ter changed the part in his hair remember when Lyn Don Johnson picked up that dog by its ears Reagan s Luck will change. Just make sure he never tosses hrs Haton a bed. Gorbachev soviets face twin dangers in Poland Warsaw. Poland Gorbachev s policy in a sense depends on the polish Bonislaw Ger cock said if the reforms fail Here ii would be a sign to Yegor i Gachev and other opponents that Yirtie sit. The result is anarchy no production it can t work. Anarchy in Poland could be the coup do Grace fur Gorbachev injuring Mikhail Gorbachev and his Reform policy is the last thing Lech Walesa and the 01 her leaders of Solidarity want in do at this critical moment of labor unrest in Poland. That was overwhelmingly Clear to me in a talk Lasi week with Ger cock and another leading opposition intellectual Adam Michnik. We should not be afraid of modernization in the soviet Gerc Mck said. The majority of the polish opposition is looking with tremendous interest find sympathy to the realization of Gorbachev s there Art twin dangers for Gorbachev in 1 Island one i that the Economy will continue so sink the other is thai worker him is will Lead to a political explosion. In the polish opposition View the Only Way to prevent both Oise evils is for a government that has Little popular sup. Port u reopen a dialogue with the popu Lar Union movement it banned. Suit sri by. Hut the Solidarity people Well appreciate the sensitivity for Gurlia Clu a of a communist regime in Poland open ing up to
