European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday july 22,1988 Elvis lives talk May kill Graceland business. 4 Al _ a a i4� i new York a next month 35,000 of the faithful will congregate at Graceland at the grave of Elvis Presley and pay homage to the King of Rock v Roll on the anniversary of his death. Only problem is Elvis born Jan. 8, 1935, died aug. 16, 1977 could be out visiting friends or vacationing according to a new Book and assorted tabloid  is not amusing to employees at Graceland. Elvis is alive rumours have floated since Elvis death turned his Memphis  mansion into a wailing Wall cum tourist trap but in recent months they be been the focus of talk shows radio programs and. And. This Story. Tabloid readers responding to a spot the King Campaign have reported sighting Elvis watching a Stock car race in Minnesota fishing in upstate Newyork and dining in the California wine country. If the King Only temporarily abdicated How Hashe avoided detection a Man with 45 Gold records 80 toppling albums 170 hit singles and millions of obsessive fans Elvis cover if he is alive is there s so Many Elvis look alikes explains Gail Brewer Giorgio author of the Book is Elvis alive which questions Many of the circumstances surrounding Elvis death. Do you know of anybody who has More imitators the person on the Street could be fooled by a look alike or it could be Elvis Brewer Giorgio said. Presley was not immediately available for com ment. But among the evidence cited by Brewer Gior Gio to support a living Elvis Elvis Graceland grave has his Middle name spelled Aaron it s spelled Aron on his birth certificate his marriage License and in most crossword puzzles. Convinced yet Many fans believed Elvis looked different and Waxen in his coffin in fact it was a Wax replica cooled by an air conditioner to prevent the false King from melting like the wicked Witch of the Elvis Presley West. How about now the incredible Elvis tape a 60-minute cassette that purports to present Telephone conversations re corded four years after Elvis death. The King explains his need for privacy his travels around Europe and his desire to get Back on stage. I needed the rest even More than i knew say the taped voice. And after about a year i started missing the people and the entertaining. It s Beena constant Battle growing beards and this and that to keep from being  still sceptical Well Brewer Giorgio also Points out that an an Agram for Elvis is lives and you still Don t believe some fans believe 270,000 people nationwide have called to hear the tape with 50,000 of the voting on whether Elvis was alive. The vote has been running 2-to-l in favor of a living breathing Elvis said Gerry Sindell chairman of Tudor publishing which put out the  caller paid 50 cents per Call to vote and $2 to hear the  Pullman of Brooklyn a Presley fan since 1953 who spent the last several years in an Effort Mohave Elvis birthday declared a National Holiday does t discount the staged death theory. I was walking myself near the Walker theater when i saw this Guy who looked just like Elvis pres Ley Pullman said. It could be him unless he had plastic  Morgan a spokesman at Graceland flatly dismissed the  of us who work Here when we go Home and see our families our friends other business people the first thing we hear is seen Elvis lately " is it fact is it fiction perhaps it s Best to end with the final words from is Elvis alive around the 10th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley an Atlanta attorney who had Bee working in the Gary Hart Campaign responded to the Rumor that Gary Hart would ran again with this statement the probability of Gary Hart seeking the nomination for president of the United states is As unlikely As believing Elvis Presley is still alive less than four months after this statement Gary Hart again announced his candidacy for president of the United  Acle joins Suff to drop charges in Iron Contra Case to iilnn11 Aitt a it c tron army Culp Rev Washington a the Ameri can civil liberties Union joined Oliver North and two other Iran Contra defendants on wednesday in asking the . Court of appeals to dismiss charges against the three men on grounds that immunized testimony would be used against them at their trial. North former White House National Security adviser John m. Poindexter and arms dealer Albert Hakim along with the Acle said the use of testimony the three men gave Congress last year would violate their fifth amendment Protection against self incrimination. At the minimum they said the Appel late court should order . District judge Gerhard a. Gesell to hold a pretrial hearing to give them an Opportunity to show that the evidence to be used against them is tainted. Last month Gesell rejected the defendants complaints that the conspiracy Case is based on tainted evidence. He said he had conducted an Exten Sive preliminary inquiry including an inspection of grand jury testimony and exhibits in his Chambers and found nothing suggesting that any of the defendants have had their fifth Amend ment rights impaired in a manner that significantly affects their right to a fair  Given these factual circumstances it is not difficult to reach a preliminary decision that the Case should proceed to trial Gesell held in a 34-Page ruling. North a retired Marine lieutenant col Onel Poindexter a retired rear a Miraland North s Boss and Hakim testified extensively last year before the joint con Gressional Iran Contra committees under Grants of immunity. A fourth defendant retired air Force maj. Gen. Richard v. Secord also testified but without immunity. Attorneys for North filed a motion with Gesell to delay the Start of the trial now scheduled for sept. 20, until March 1989. North is charged with conspiring to illegally divert .-Iran arms Sale prof its to the nicaraguan rebels. Poindexter Hakim and Secord Are accused of carry ing out a secret operation to put fund from iranian arms sales and other sources into unauthorized hands for per Sonal profit by deceiving Congress obstructing investigations altering documents abusing the tax Laws and by other Means prohibited by  Kate Martin director of the acl foundation National Security project who filed the organization s Friend of the court Brief told a news conference this prosecution violates the Basic principle that the government cannot Force an individual to be a witness against him or  . Plans to keep its big feet in place Washington a americans will continue to have longer feet than the rest of the world. At least a longer foot the unit of measurement. Two Federal agencies have decided to keep the uniquely Ameri can Standard of measurement for the foot which is something less than a hair longer than the International foot. The National Bureau of Stan Dards and the National oceanic and atmospheric administration Are asking for comment As required by Law on their proposal to reject a plan first contemplated in 1959 to eventually adopt the inter National Standard of 0.3048 of a meter to define the foot. Instead the agencies propose to continue indefinitely the use of the ". Survey foot which is de fined As 12003937ths of meter. A infrequent drug use May not harm teens behaviour study suggests los Angeles a teen age drug abusers tend to commit More crimes find it harder to hold a Job and do poorly in school but infrequent drug use appeared to do no harm to relation ships educational achievement and mental health according to the authors of a federally funded study published thursday. Drug abusers leave school earlier Start jobs earlier and form families ear Lier said Michael Newcomb adjunct associate professor at the University of California at los Angeles. However moving into adult roles without adult maturity creates severe strains on virtually All aspects of a drug abuser s  Newcomb and professor Peter Bentler both in Urcla s department of psychology put eight years of research into the study of More than 700 teen agers first contacted in los Angeles county when they were 12 to 15 years old. It challenges the current emphasis on thwarting drug abuse by challenging teen agers to ignore peer pressure to use drugs. Emphasis would be better placed on reducing the abuse regular use and mis use of drugs among teen agers the authors argued. Focusing simply on handling peer pressure such As the just say no approaches May placate concerned but naive parents teachers and funding sources but is an incomplete approach to confronting the task of preventing drug abuse the study says. Some drug experts disputed that Asser Tion wednesday. It seem to me that one of the Best ways to prevent people from becoming heavy users is to reduce the number of people who Are users at All said Lloyd Johnston who Heads an annual Survey of drug use among High school seniors sponsored by the National Institute on drug abuse. Drugs studied were alcohol marijuana hashish hypnotics cocaine stimulants psychedelics inhalants narcotics and pc. Infrequent drug use once a month or less had Little or no effect on users Newcomb said. He said teen agers who used moderate amounts of alcohol but no other drugs showed increased social integration and increased  he speculated that those who used no drugs other than alcohol May have been better adjusted than those who used other drugs. Stressing that he was not encouraging alcohol use Newcomb said alcohol May be socially facilitative. We use it in cocktail parties All the  teens who abuse drugs however divorce More quickly Sutler from greater Job instability commit More serious crimes and Are generally More Una Pimp in their personal lives and relationships Newcomb said