European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 1938 the stars and St Hopes Page 5 Romance is in fat kids Are out for 89 Denver a Romance clod Hopper shoes Tor men and Lullaby tapes far Yuppie babies will be hoi in 1989, but in will be a to hum year for fashions and a bad year for fal kids according to the american fore Caster 1989, older 89 trends identified by the forecaster Gutter less Bowling alleys fighting dogs on steroids and tur key Hunting. New age religion changeling will become passe in 1989, along Wilh Leddy bears and soft cookies said Kim Long author of the sixth annual 192-Page fore Caster which went on Sale this week. Long said 1989 could be a Boring year Iron disc. The problem he said is thai baby Boomers the one third of the . Population bom Between the Yean 1046 and 1964 Are concentrating on their careers and families and College students have grown serious. The Rise of Romance and a growing de emphasis on sex in advertising movies and television arc directly linked to the aging baby Boomers Long said. More of them arc having their first kids and that tends to Slaw you Down and keep you close to Home he said. Long was surprised by the growing popularity of Lullaby tapes for inc babies of baby Boomer moms baby Boomer mothers who Don t have time or Don t know How to sing lullabies arc buying tapes from the professionals he said. Clothing styles arc becoming conservative and utile aging baby Boomers Are concentrating on their careers and families and College students have grown serious author says. La Han Long said. There is nothing in men s or women s fashions that is a jump ahead pretty Boring he said. In men s footwear this Means the return of big shoes expensive leather wingtips and brogues. The big shoe thing has been building slowly and is part of the gradual return to traditional clothing Long said. Long a Denver free Lance writer has been writing the american forecaster since 198. His predictions have gained such respectability that the old Farmer s almanac gave Long space in the 1988 and 1989 editions. Long said the new age practice of changeling popularized by actress Shirley Maclaine will fade in 1939 because of scepticism and ridicule. But astrology will remain hot in 1989, Long said mainly because of president and Nancy Reagan s Reli Ance on astrological interpretations and the subsequent efforts by astrologers to legitimize the practice As a science. Out of shape youngsters will be put in fitness pro Grams As the preoccupation with health trickles Down from adults to their offspring. Long predicted. Some curiosities among the trends thai will take hold in 1989 steroid use to make fighting dogs meaner and stronger Gutler toss Bowling Alley and a surge in Turkey Hunting which Long said was becoming popu Lar because the Birds arc Tough to shoot. Gutler less Bowling alleys Are for novices and he hopelessly uncoordinated Long said. Inflatable lubes Art placed in the Gul tors Between the Lanei. Long said in an interview last week that of his 1988 forecasts he is proudest of his prediction that Girdle sales would increase and of his identification of biodegradable plastics As an important development. On the Down Side he was off the Mark in predicting the end of the to shows Dallas and dynasty and in saying that fee wee Herman would go prime time. Long wrote in the 89 forecaster that Michael Duka Kis Wil fac the next president but last week he hedged according to every single indicator from the common to he bizarre in s Loo close to Call son who lost family Power in la. Dies cretan la. A can Der Perez jr., he former District attorney who lost his father s legacy of Power in plaque incs Parish in fights Wilh his brother died wednesday of a heart attack. He was 68. Pere was a  of the fervent segregationist who Hull Otic of the most dominant political machines in Southern history ruling plaque mines for More than four decades first As District attorney and later As a Council president. Before he died in 1969, the father saw la Jinder or. Antoin cd As District attorney in 1960 and his other son Chalm As Council presi Dent. However the sons began feuding in the 1970s, and in 1979 Leander or. Began  Parish Council study finds nuclear arms Plant has chronic unexpected failures Washington not the department of Energy said wednesday that chronic equipment failure and poor operating procedures caused nuclear re actors at the Savannah River Plant to shut Down unexpectedly nine to 12 times a year for nearly two decades a rate twice that of the civilian nuclear Power Industry. In a study made Public wednesday the Energy department also said that 25 work ers had been accidentally exposed Loradia Tion at the nuclear weapon production Plant in South Carolina and health specialists said inc exposures for some workers greatly exceeded Federal safety limits. Many of the country s nuclear experts said that if civilian reactors had experienced inc same problems they would have been shul div it immediately. The study which examined operations at the government s giant nuclear weapons Complex from 1971 to 1987, pro Vides another revealing glimpse of the severe operating problems experienced by the Plant s operator the Dupont co. A five month delay in making the study Public is emblematic of inc difficulties in getting information about inc Plant s operation to the Agency s lop safety officials. Copies of the report which was pre pared by a consulting group in Aikin near where the Plant is situated were sent to Washington on May 6, according to Energy department officials in Aiken Bui the report was not received by he Agency s chief safely operator in Washington. Richard w. Sla Rostocki until sept. 22, Staro Slucki said. There was no immediate explanation As to Why Staros Taccki did not receive the report sooner. Disclosures about problems at the enormous government Complex began unfolding last Friday when two congressional committees were told that a num Ber of serious reactor accidents had been kept secret for As Long As 31 years. Initially the Energy department which oversees the Plant s operation said it had not known of the incidents. On monday the Energy department said it and its predecessor the atomic Energy commission were responsible for keeping the incidents secret. And former officials of the dec suggested on tuesday that the incidents had seen kept secret be cause of National Security concerns about publicizing America s problems producing atomic weapons wednesday Sla Rostocki said that the report reveals just How serious the Short comings in the operation of the reactors at the Savannah River Plant have been. He said that if civilian nuclear reactors had experienced the same number of forced shutdowns their operating licenses might have been revoked. Last August unexplained events at one of five reactors Al the Plant which were built in the Early 1950s, led the Energy department to order in shut. Two of the reactors which were de signed to produce plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons have been taken out of service permanently Energy department officials say the inability to Start up the three reactors that arc still in Active service has com promised the government s production of fuel for nuclear weapons. Weapons Possession charge to be dropped against Rowan Washington a authorities announced wednesday they will drop a weapons Possession charge against syndicated columnist Carl t. Rowan whose trial last week resulted in a Hung jury. While 1 continue to believe that or. Rowan in fact and in Law committed the offences for which he was prosecuted. The District s ability to obtain a fair hearing in this matter has been undermined said Frederick d. Cooke. The District of Columbia corporation counsel. I Don t believe either or. Rowan or the govern ment in this Case can get a unanimous  Rowan who had a speaking engagement in Kansas City mo., could not immediately be reached for com ment Joseph Dice Nova one of Rowan s attorneys said his client would hold a news conference thursday. The columnist who has written and spoken in favor of gun control had been charged Wilh using an unregistered handgun and ammunition to wound a teen Ager who had taken an unauthorized dip in his Back Yard Pool in june. Had he been convicted on both misdemeanours he could have faced up to two years in prison and a $2,000 Fine. A District of Columbia Superior court jury that heard the Case became deadlocked in deliberations sept. 29, reportedly 9-3 for acquittal and judge Arthur l. Burcu declared a mistrial Burnett gave the cily t inc to decide whether to seek a new irial. Rowan s attorneys claimed that the columnist and his son had been misled by police when they were trying to learn if he weapon used in he shooting needed to be registered. They based their Case around a Little used Legal Prin Ciple called entrapment by estoppel which holds Hal a person cannot be convicted if prosecuted for actions approved by authorities. Rowan s son. Carl jr., testified during the two Day trial that he had been rebuffed in efforts to Register the .22 Caliper pistol with City police officials in 1982 and 1983. Rowan jr., who was an Fri agent at the Lime he asked about registration requirements testified thai officers in the police department s gun control unit told him he was exempt from registration require ments because he was a Taw enforcement officer. Rowan or. Also claimed that the same officers told him it would be no problem if others in his family had Access to the weapon. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 7, 1948 a special . Army commission recommended sparing the lives of 17 nazis who had been convicted of killing unarmed american prisoners during the Baltic of the bulge in Belgium. 30 years ago today. Oct. 7, 1958 Pope Pius Xii the 82ycar-old Leader of he roman Catholic Church Lay gravely ill 81 his summer residence in Italy after suffering a cerebral circulatory stroke. 20 years ago today. Oct. 7, 1968 the new York times released a presidential election Survey that showed Richard Nixon in a commanding Lead Over both his rivals and George Wallace slightly ahead of vice president Hubert Humphrey. 10 years ago today. Oct. 7, 1978 the world s second test tube baby was born to a 31-year-old Indian woman in Calcutta. The first test tube baby was bom three months earlier in Oldham England