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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday january 31,1989 take rubber ducks go Home Charity told from press dispatches a plan to race 40,000 rubber ducks Down the White River in Indianapolis to raise Money for a food Bank has been sunk by concerns about Indiana s Gam bling Laws. The state attorney general s office and private attorneys advised Organ jeers the event would be considered an illegal lottery. But organizers Hope state lawmakers will pass legislation enabling the great american rubber Duck race originally scheduled for april to go off by september. Gleaner s food Bank inc. Of Indiana had intended to sell numbered ducks for $10 each and raise $400,000 for trans porting food across the state. The first 15 ducks across the finish line would have won prizes for their owners. J. Bradford Senden an organizer said each $10 donation would have moved 65 pounds of food through the system serving 825 agencies. A rubber Duck race is the sort of fun harmless family event that can be a tremendous Benefit to a Charity s serious people helping Agenda Senden said in announcing the postponement. It was simply an Effort to make sure smaller agencies throughout the state get food with no transportation  with lottery proposals now circulating in the statehouse Senden said he was confident provisions would be made for events like the rubber Duck race. Hitting the High notes Russell Gill had to squeeze time for it in Between Mahler s ninth and the damnation of  but the Colum bus symphony musician still managed to make 50 trips up Columbus Ohio smallest building. He climbed 41,751 stairs. That s one More than last year said Gill wife Gail. The string Bass player s Effort at the 40-Story James Rhodes state office Tower raised about $6,000 for the cys tic fibrosis foundation said event organizers. The fund Raiser in its eighth year fell on one of the 37-year-old Musi Cian s busier weekends. Gill s weekend schedule included saturday night concert featuring Gustav Mahler s ninth symphony and a Sun Day afternoon rehearsal for Hector Berlioz s  so he took a 30-minute Nap after the concert and started the 629-foot ascents at 2 . Sunday Fin Ishing by about 1 ., his wife said. That s dedication said Ann Pfau executive director of the cystic fibrosis foundation s Central Ohio chapter. Other climbers about 80 of them showed up at 10 ., she said. The quit at about 3 30  Last year s climb raised about $12,000 for the foundation she said. This year s goal was $15,000. Each participant in the climb had sponsors who pledged donations to the Charity. Participants who finished their climbs were treated to free leg Mas sages. Gorby fires Karla John be Carre s next Book in t expected in bookstores until june but fans Are already wondering whether the new soviet spirit of glasnost will bring the acclaimed spy novelist in Froni the cold. The question is tantalizing enough to have made the front Page of the respected sunday Telegraph in London which asked if the creator of Smiley and of Karla the soviet spymaster has had to come in from the cold War what front will he fight on novels like Smiley s people and the the spy who came in from the cold whose undercover skullduggery is set in the pre Mikhail Gorbachev Era have made be Carre a master of the genre. His upcoming novel the Russia House is described in his publisher s Catalon As a spy Story and an anti spy Story a Story of cold warriors who continue to dance in their Gray cellars after the music has ended the Sun Day Telegraph reported. Rocking for aids a Benefit at new York s radio City shoe trap former Secretary of state George Shultz right is used to dealing with hostage situations but this unidentified woman Spectator at the National pro am in Pebble Beach calif., is probably not so Well versed a negotiator. There was no word available on How or if she got her shoe Back after he somehow managed to drive his Ball into it. For that matter there was no word on How Many strokes Shultz used to get the Ball out of this unusual trap. Music Hall is being billed As a superstar crusade against aids and will feature the heavy Metal group guns n roses. The announcement was made Sun Day at a Star studded Brunch at the hotel Bel air in los Angeles to discuss june s show called Rock and a hard  organizers Hope to raise about $2 million for the Gay men s health crisis a new York based non profit organization that helps aids sufferers. The concert is being held to raise awareness and emphasis on the importance of educating Young people in re Gard to aids said a spokeswoman. Actor Michael Douglas was Host of the Brunch and musical artists attending included Taylor Dayne Eddie Money her Bie Hancock and rap singers Jazzy Jeff and the fresh Prince. Only guns n roses have committed to appearing at the radio City event so far. O space the Ina Frontier o uncounted centuries ago an unknown race from beyond our Galaxy created a series of interstellar Gates shortcuts across our universe and then disappeared leaving behind no clues to their Fate or the operation of their system. Twice before the Enterprise has used the system to traverse the Galaxy and returned each time no Wiser to the Gates operation. Now it is imperative that they find out. For the Gates Are breaking Down taking the very stars in the sky with them. The Fate of the Galaxy rests in the hands of the Enterprise Crew Andi i i _. Uia their ability to communicate not Only with creatures from another world but from another z universe As Well. I Star trek the final nexus is available in paperback for $3.95 h at a stars and stripes Bookstore near you10 stars and stripes bookstores stars and 0h of my bookstores  
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