European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stari and s of apes wednesday november 2,1088 Abe and pals live it up in death Book says new York not John Lennon is having an affair with movie Star Carole Lombard bul she is ill has an occasional fling Wilh Broad minded Hubby cart Cable. Abe Lincoln still visits his old haunt in washing ton and you la be liajipj1 of know thai Lui wig Van Beethoven is no longer deaf and no longer has that Cranky Inok dunh seems 10 have rejuvenated him he was 56 when he died in 1827 and now looks Riboul 35. Those Are the reports from psychics and Chaunci ers in ghosts of the Rich and Lamous by Arthur Myers contemporary Booksin bookstores Jusi Intima far he i  Rush. Elconon channels his thoughts through Bill ten Uto. Tunuto said the eve Catoc is plenty Happy Icse Days. Lie s hot and heavy into his affair with Lombard inc to unless of screwball comedy who died in a plane crash while on a tour to sell War Bonds in 1942, just two years after Lennon was born. You have a body Over there and so is Asim portent there As it is Here according to the Book Gable s undying love for his wife is such that he docs l mind. Anyway he s been Busy getting ready 10 he  the far East. But the two of them still Gei together now and then they rendezvous in room  the Oalmann Hole in oar Nan ariz., where they spent their wed Ding night in 1939. The hotel is now a museum or the Gold Rush Days and ghostly doings. In addition to lights on and lights off and toilet Flushing in room 15, the hotel s managers said Dusty bedspreads reveal human outlines in other rooms that have been boarded up for years. Phantom chambermaid who leave clean towels in the rooms also Are reported proving thai Good help can he found these Days if you know where to look. Life in the Valley of the so endow has mellowed Many orits residents. Take Franz Liszt the flamboyant hungarian who was the 19th-Ccntury equivalent of the King. When he appeared at piano recitals Blond hair flowing medals dripping from his jacket he used to slowly strip Olthuis gloves to the sighs and panting sounds of fainting women today. Liszt is a Couch potato said psychic Rose Mary Brown who has a direct line to inc composer. He loves to watch television and on occasion goes shopping Wilh me she said once he flipped an Apple out of my hand be cause he thought i was eating too  and then there Are the political poltergeists like honest Abe. Who come oui of the Walls for the elec Tion season and every other season for that matter. According to Myers Book Lincoln in t partisan. Maureen Reagan Eleanor Roosevelt Jacqueline Kennedy Harry s. Truman and lady Bird Johnson have Felt his presence in inc White House. During world War ii he knocked on inc door ofic Rose room where Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was staying. When she opened it and saw him she  there s Evelyn Clarke granddaughter of explorer adm. Richard Byrd. She told Myers shut her late Grandfather regularly visits her. He always comes around me and puts his hands on the Back of my shoulders h is a very precious greater defense flexibility needed study finds Washington Ai can defense establishment needs to be overhauled to take account of a lessened threat from the soviet Union and Heigh Knud risks in other areas says u study by a private research organization. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s inter Nal Reform moves have somewhat lessened inc military threat to the United slates at the same time thai threats from other sources such As terrorism and economic based problems have increased concluded the National Security group report due to or. Gorbachev s initiatives thai threat appears to have decreased. At he same Tinie we find ourselves increasingly threatened by smaller third world countries terrorism and unconventional problems like drugs environmental pol Lution and instability the study Sard. Iti the face of Unis horizontal Escala Tion we find that our Force Structure intelligence system and operating proce dures Are ail geared to he Large single threat we do not have the flexibility required for these smaller More diffuse hazards it said. The National Security group de scribes itself As a non partisan education Al organization. The five year old organization i based in Chicago and has previously sponsored studies on Security related is sues such As arms control it Board of advisors includes Donald Rumsfeld the former Cense Secretary. The report said a new ominous Poten tial threat looms in the growing i of Lucacc of the drug cartels of latin America Over the legitimate governments of that  the solutions it proposed include a Marshall plan for latin America in creased flexibility in the . Military Structure and intelligence gathering apparatus and new Aii Citison to global environmental problems. The report also urged the Winner of next tuesday s presidential election either Democrat Michael Dukakis or re publican George Bush to quickly Cal a budget Summit with Capitol Hill Lead ers to Deal with looming defense budget problems. The Pentagon budget will be a key concern of the new adminis Lvalion. De sense spending Rose sharply each year during president Reagan s first term but it has been essentially Frozen during his second term. The Curry no defense budget is j300billion and is not Likely to Rise much regardless of who is elected nov. 8, Overly optimistic projections of de sense budget growth coupled with relatively larger growth of internal fixed accounts and Public pressure against increasing defense spending will result Ina decrease of $250 billion to $400 billion for defense in the next five years from what the military had assumed it said. During Reagan s first term inc Mili tary services made Down payments on a Large number of new weapons  of those weapons May have to be cancelled. The report also said the Pentagon spending Effort should be broadened to keep Pace with the new View. Carefully selected projects in he areas of education Industry research and development and Energy policy would be funded specifically As Security projects it said. Marines Exchange fire with in Fruce is near Panama base Washington us l eleven , Marine guards exchanged fire seven times monday thigh with armed intruders at Ilic Arr Ijan fuel Depoi near How aril fall in i Tiama the Pentagon said tuesday. No casualties or injuries were reported said spokesman Fred i i oilman. The was the fourth and largest Exchange of gunfire in the last month with he Lalesia occurring oct. 23, said spokeswoman maj. A i by  listening posts the marines heard movement voices and verbally confirmed the presence of armed intruders in the Jungle surrounding the Southern Edge of the Arr Aijan Lank farm Hoffman said. When verbally challenged the intruders fired Auto Matic and Small arms at the marines Hoffman said. The marines returned lire Wilh their Rilles and used illumination flares the spokesman said. He said there were six other exchanges of fire Over period tasting nearly to hours from 8 15 to 10p.m. Hoffman said he did not know How Many intruders Here were or if they were wearing uniforms. The Mai Ler is being investigated he said i. Wood said there has been an increase in intruder activity in accent weeks with intrusions occurring Al most nightly on at least one of the . Bases in Panama. She said i Here has been a slackening of harassment by panamanian police of , military personnel and i hair dependents in civilian areas in recent weeks. In september the Pentagon said the Tours of mar ried personnel were being shortened in Panama be cause of continuing harassment by panamanian police of americans living in the canal zone. Iron horse still puffing along engine no s87, a still vigorous relic from Indiana s old Nickel plate Road spouts Black smoke Asil crosses a trestle near Bloomington pulling old and new passenger car equipment. The locomotive recently restored will make several passenger runs a or from Indianapolis to other cities in inc state