European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday May 23,1988 Carter s Book depicts love of wilderness Ellijay i. A in Blue jeans Tennis shoes and a Tan fishing Vest Jimmy Carter stepped carefully across the partly submerged Rock of turnip own Creek then snapped several Quick easts to put a tiny artificial lure in the Swift current upstream. The intensity of the dedicated Fly Fisherman creased his face even if the occasion was a photo Opportunity to be repeated numerous times at Carters Cabin among the Fern and White Pinr in this Cool Nook of the North Georgia mountains. At one hour intervals last week reporters and photographers were ushered past a secret service guard Post to the rough Hen ctr can. There above a constant Star from the nearby Falls the former Leader of the Western world talked about his fourth and latest Book a narrative that avoids poli tics and history to offer a picture of the one time Georgia Peanut Farmer governor and president As an accomplished outdoors Man. An outdoor journal adventures and reflections is going to bookstores this week. Ii depicts a Young Jimmy Carter learning to Hunt and fish in the swamps of South Georgia under the Stem Tutelage of his father and absorbing the Woods lore and occasionally earthy humor of the menfolk in his close knit farming Community. The Book is part travelogue part technical manual and pan philosophical treatise. In a quest for trophy Rainbow Trout along Alaska s Copper River Carter marvels at the untamed Beauty of the wilderness his administration helped protect. He writes in detail of the life cycles the dedicated Fly Fisherman must study to present the proper lure to his Quarry. A Strong conservation civic also comes thro ugh in Carter s policy of releasing what he catches. The outdoors he said in an inner View holds Many meanings for him. One thing is. It s a resurrection or recollection of adventures or experiences i have known All my life As a farm boy. So when i went in the Navy or when 1 was in the governor s mansion or in the while House i had a hunger for the Forest the wilderness areas streams an d Fields hat were the same or similar to the ones 1 knew Ai a his love for the outdoors played a part in the Camp David accords. Perhaps the most famous achievement of my life was brought about because former first lady Ros Alynn and 1 were walking through the quiet of a Camp David Trail. I was deeply concerned about the Mideast situation deteriorating and Rosalynn said Why Don t we bring israeli prime minister Menachim begin and egyptian president Anwar Sadat up Here to Camp David i think that the egyptians and the israelis in this kind of Environ ment might forget about War and get to know each other better and of course it worked out that Way. I Don t think thai we Ever could have healed the relation ship Between Israel and Egypt had it not been for the quietness and the contemplative environment of Camp the Reagan administration s stewardship of the environment has been abominable Carter said. "1 think president Reagan s statement that Trees cause pollution has been a kind of a Basic philosophical characteristic of this administration Carter makes no mention in the Book of the most famous outdoor adventure of his presidential years the killer Rabbit episode. I guess i should have just to explain there was nothing to it Carter said. Bui i Don t want to get into another altercation with the press about it. That was a contrivance of the the episode occurred in 1979 while fishing in a Pond near his Home in Plains. A Rabbit also dubbed the Banzai Bunny Imam toward car Ter s Canoe. He told reporters at the time that he used a pad dle to hit water to keep the Rabbit away. But first reports said the Rabbit was making straight for car Ter s Canoe and that he beat it Back with a paddle. Sharansky recalls ordeal Washington a Natan Sharansky the human rights activist who was freed from the soviet Union in february 1986 after nearly a decade in Captivity says prison doctors once pried his Mouth open with a Metal device to Force feed him during a hunger strike. The Force feeding was intended to feed my body the torture to save my soul Sharansky writes in his Giuin Sharansky new Book fear no Etc Cruls were published in the May 11 edition of . News & world report. Sharansky. 40. Who spent from 1977 until 1986 in soviet prisons had been charged with spying and other offences that he denied. He was allowed to emigrate to Israel in 1986 after his Case attracted International attention. In his Book Sharansky recalls How he embarked on a hunger strike in 1982, because soviet authorities refused to allow him to see his family or correspond with them. Before they resorted to Metal pincers authorities tried a number of methods to feed Sharansky whose weight dropped from 143 pounds to 77 pounds. Finally they arrived with More reliable methods he said. The Handcuffs were clicked on and the guards held me by the feet head and shoulders he said. Some body pressed pincers on my Cheeks and pushed Down very painfully while rotating the pincers. As soon As i opened my Mouth a Metal object was inserted Between my Lech. The turning of Ilie screw to which two plates were attached began to separate the plates which made my Mouth open wider and wider. The complicated task of introducing a lube into my Mouth bad been the Force feeding continued for three Days until prison officials relented and allowed Sharansky to Cor respond with his Mother. His hunger strike lasted 110 Days. Sharansky s Book also relates other episodes from his imprisonment As Well As his flight to Freedom in Germany stateside officials see purple officer gets suspended Detroit a a police officer who was suspended after she reported to work with purple hair and a Matching purple dress is trying to get paid for the five Days she missed and have the incident washed off her Murphy was charged with wilfully Dis obeying an order to change the color of her the purple lop with a wig was insufficient especially because Murphy did that two Days after the order a police hearing attorney Stolberg an attorney for members of the Detroit police officers association said Murphy was blameless in the August 985 Inci did t order her beautician to turn her hair purple Stolburg said rather it was a catastrophe she was Stolberg mid Murphy tried to comply with the order but i. Joe Mccarrol representing the police department said Murphy had purple hair and won a purple dress mid came to work like that there was no immediate decision on Mur Phy s Appeal to the police hearing Board. Santa be s Airport has a beef with its neighbors Santa be. . A Airport employees had to Moonlight As wranglers when about so cows wandered onto a runway and temporarily police sgt. Frank Rule said the Cuttle strayed onto Santa be municipal Airport from grazing land leased to ranchers by the . Bureau of land management Airport workers the Ifil l deputies and City and county animal control officer herded the cattle to an area near the City s sewage treatment Plant. Rule said Airport Security officers stood guard until the owners were operations were temporarily disrupted while the animals were manager Neil Beard said there have been isolated incidents of cattle wandering onto Airport property but this was the said two cattle owners each would be issued a single citation for having an animal running at Large. I Don t think they la be issued a citation for every animal he said. 18 injured in collision of 2 school buses in . New Rochelle . A two school buses carrying 87 people crashed at i Highway loll station leaving it people with minor injuries authorities said of the people Wen treated for neck pains after a bus carrying student from the Woonsocket Junior Hairfi school struck another bus. Returning from i new York City Field Tnp. The first vehicle bad slopped it Lull Booth on into Nate 95 northbound in new Rochelle when the second bus rear ended it Friday night. The injured were taken to new Rochelle Wos Piedl for treatment. One girl was kept overnight for observation while the others were treated and released said Tim Connors principal of the school in Woonsocket of the other youngsters Are Fine he said. The Driver of the bus that was hit was Given a ticket for not having a log and the second drive was ticketed for haying inadequate brakes and not having a log police said. Block votes could swing the election Hooks says new Britain Conn. A the head of the a act said Here that if the All presidential race b As close As he thinks it will be Blacks could swing the election either participation could be awesome n terms of in effect on the race said Benjamin looks executive director of the National association for the advancement of coloured people. Based on what i be seen this will be a very close race and 8 Percento 10 percent can be decisive said Hooks. The Black vow will Belarge and it will be predominantly
