European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday january 13,1989 retired Admiral gets Energy Post Bennett to direct fight against drugs Washington a president elect Bush completed the top ranks of his administration thursday by selecting retired adm. James d. Watkins to be Energy Secretary and former education Secretary William j. Bennett to Lead the nation s fight against drugs. Bush made the announcement a few hours before holding a dress rehearsal meeting of his Cabinet at Blair House the government guest quarters across from the White House. In introducing Bennett Bush said the new Post is a tremendous undertaking and the Bottom line is this we need Ful a and completely to marshal the nation s Energy and intelligence in a True All out War against drugs. We can and we must win that on the troubles facing the new Energy Secretary Bush said i m committed to solving the problems that exist within our atomic Energy defense Complex. I m sure that with Jim Watkins by my Side we re going to do just the 61-year-old Watkins a former nuclear submarine commander became chief of naval operations under president Reagan a Job he held from 1982 to 1986. More recently he headed a presidential commis Sion on aids which last year recommended new Laws to protect victims of the deadly disease from discrimination. He is considered an authority on nuclear warfare. The Energy department faces a multimillion Dollar cleanup of the nation s aging and increasingly unsafe nuclear weapons plants. Bennett 45, will get the new Job of coordinating the government s War on drugs a position created by Congress last year. Bush originally planned to give vice president elect Dan Quayle the Job but the legis lation prohibited the vice president from taking the Job. Although the position is not strictly speaking a cab inet Post Bennett is expected to have Cabinet rank. The formal title of the new Agency is the office of National drug control policy informally it has taken on the title of drug Czar. Popular among conservatives Bennett served As Reagan s education Secretary from 1985 until septem Ber when he left government to lecture and write. Bush had a hard time filling both jobs the last top level posts in his administration. Aides suggested he vacillated on the Energy Post Between an Oil state candidate and one with experience in nuclear Energy. Here is the list of Cabinet and other High level appointments made by Bush. James a. Baker Iii Secretary of state. Nicholas Brady Treasury Secretary. John Tower defense Secretary. Dick Thornburgh attorney general. Robert Mosbacher Commerce Secretary. Jack Kemp housing and Urban development Secretary. Clayton Yeutter agriculture Secretary. Lauro Cavazos education Secretary. Samuel Skinner transportation Secretary. Louis Sullivan health and human services Secretary. James d. Watkins Energy Secretary. Manuel Lujan Interior Secretary. Elizabeth Dole labor Secretary. Edward j. Derwinsky veterans affairs Secretary. William Webster Cia director. Carla Hills . Trade representative. Richard Darman director of the office of management and budget. Brent scowcroft National Security adviser. Michael Boskin chairman of the Council of economic advisers. William Bennett drug Czar. John Sununu White House chief of staff. Marlin Fitzwater White House spokesman. William Reilly administrator of the environmental Protection Agency. Italian doctors suggest kisses May spread aids Chicago up a team of six italian physicians said thursday that passionate kissing is not Safe sex and the practice May be one Way of transmit Ting the deadly aids virus. But a senior investigator at the . National Institute of dental research disputed the findings of the italian Doc tors saying acquired immune deficiency syndrome is not transmitted orally. In a letter to the journal of the Ameri can medical association the italian re searchers described their study of saliva in 90 volunteers that Analysed the Cou Ples saliva for traces of blood before and after tooth Rushing eating and deep passionate kissing. The researchers focused on blood be cause the virus causing aids is known to be transmitted by blood cells. In Addi Tion signs of blood in saliva indicate Small tears Are present in the lining or muc9sa, of the Mouth. Such tears could provide an Entrance for the aids virus into a person s bloodstream. The italian researchers All doctors at the clinical Malattia infective Secondo polic Linico found about half the people in the study normally have some blood in their saliva 55 percent had traces of blood after eating 80 percent after brushing their Teeth and 91 percent of the couples had blood in their saliva after passionate kissing. The italian physicians said that during passionate kissing the damaged linings of two Peoples Mouths could come into close Contact and blood can pass directly from one subject to another. The intense rubbing that takes place during kissing favors this passage and if the blood of one partner is infective human immunodeficiency virus his can pass into the bloodstream of the other they concluded the results of this study indicate that passionate kissing cannot be considered protective but or. Philip Fox a senior investigator at the . National Institute of Den Tal research in Bethesda md., said in an interview there is a great Deal of epidemiological evidence that his is not transmitted by the Oral As examples Fox pointed to studies on people who share living quarters eating utensils with aids patients studies on dentists and other health professionals who come into close Contact with saliva from infected people and studies on homosexuals who engage Only in Oral sex. These showed that non sexual living with aids patients does not Lead to infection that dentists Are at extremely Low risk of infection and that uninfected homosexuals who practice Only Oral sex Are at no greater risk of contracting his than the general population. These studies taken together pro vide Strong evidence that there is not Oral transmission of his Fox said. But he acknowledged it is not completely impossible the virus could be passed in direct Oral Contact with a per son with an open Cut in his Mouth. Ongoing studies by Fox and his col leagues have shown however that saliva contains a substance that inhibits the in festivity of his at least in the test tube perhaps helping explain the absence of aids cases linked to Oral transmission. Reagan offered radio talk show of Burbank Calif. Up Lac radio the voice of the los Angeles Lak ers and Kings has offered president Reagan a $100,000-a-year sports talk show Slot after he leaves the White House station officials said thursday. In a notarized letter mailed late wednesday Norman Epstein vice presi Dent and general manager of Lac offered Reagan a one year contract to serve As sports director and do a one hour talk show originating from his new Home in Bel air. This is a Bona fide offer said marketing director Robert Novak. We have a Check ready for him. This is not a hoax. We re prepared to build a studio in his Epstein noting that Reagan has experience As a sportscaster in Des Moines Iowa said the president would add something unique to radio sports in the la we Are Happy that you Are coming Home to los Angeles and we know what a great lakers and Kings fan you Are Epstein wrote the president. We feel that our audience As Well As this Community will truly enjoy your commentary on the Day s Reagan and his wife Nancy plan to move to a $2.6 million five bedroom House in Bel air when he leaves office next week. Chapman Mcferrin Fop grammy nomination list Beverly Hills Calif. A Singer songwriter Tracy Chapman and vocal gymnast Bobby Mcferrin led the Field in nominations for the 31st annual grammy awards thurs Day with six for Chapman and five for Mcferrin. Chapman whose debut album was a Surprise hit in 1988, garnered Nomi were Don t worry be Happy fast car Baker s giving you the Best that i got Michael Jackson s Man in the Mirror and Winwood s Roll with nominated for album of the year were Michael s Faith sting s nothing like the Sun Winwood s Roll with it Mcferrin s simple Tracy Chapman nations for Best new artist Best album Best song and Best record for fast car Best female pop performance for the same song and Best contemporary Folk recording for the entire album named after herself. Mcferrin whose Don t worry be Happy was the first Ever non instrumental to reach no. 1 position on billboard charts received Nomi nations for Best song record and male pop vocal performance for Don t worry plus an album nomination for simple Mcferrin also received Best male jazz vocal performance for the song George Michael whose smash album Faith sold More than 6 Mil lion copies and spawned six hits received two nominations from the National Academy of recording arts and sciences. Other top nominees were Anita Baker with four and sting and Steve Winwood with three each. Nominated for record of the year George Michael a pleasures and Chapman s album. Nominations for song of the year a songwriters award were for be still my beating heart by sting Mcferrin s Don t worry be Happy Chapman s fast car giving you the Best that i got written by Baker skip Scarborough and Randy Holland and piano in the dark by Brenda Russell Jeff Hall and Scott Cutler. Nominees for Best new artist included dethroned miss America Van Essa Williams Rick Astley Chapman Toni Childs and the group take 6. Despite Michael s powerful sales generated by his Faith Alburn and singles music insiders criticism of pretentiousness and publicity seeking May have Hurt the English artist. Others who like Michael received two nominations included Russell Neil Dorffman and songwriter Randy Holland. Winners will be announced in los Angeles on feb. 22
