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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday february 19,1989 Hudson Lover reveals plan for donation los Angeles a Rock Hudson s homosexual Lover who was awarded $21.75 million because Hudson hid the fact that he was dying of aids said he would donate at least a portion to aids research if he collects. No one person needs that much Money Marc Christian said Friday after jurors awarded him $7.25 million in punitive and exemplary damages. The ver dict followed wednesday s si4.5 million award for emotional distress. Asked How he Felt about Hudson now Christian said i miss him. I m sorry this All  the jury s decision on punitive and exemplary dam Ages was against Hudson s Secretary and confidant Mark Miller who admitted he agreed to conceal Hud son s diagnosis from Christian. Miller s attorney Andrew Banks labelled the size of the award outrageous and said he would file a motion to have it thrown out or reduced. Christian s attorney Harold Rhoden said he had offered to Settle the Case before trial for $750,000, Buthis offer was rejected. Christian 35, thanked the jurors As they left the courtroom shaking hands with each one. Several jurors told him Good  asked about his plans he said i m not going to meet any More movie  Hudson was diagnosed As having the fatal disease in june 1984 and died in october 1985. Christian said he was kept in the dark about Hud son s condition until Hudson collapsed in Paris and his diagnosis was announced in july 1985. Christian has repeatedly tested negative for aids and medical experts say the chances of him contracting the fatal disease now from his sexual relationship with Hudson Are almost non existent. Marc Christian Nixon friends asked to shun Abc Miami up an aide to Richard Nixon has distributed a memo to the former president s friends warning them not to help with Abc television s production of a movie based on the Book the final Days and to avoid the network the Miami Herald said saturday. Abc is about to begin production on a television movie from the Book written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein the Washington Post reporters who helped unravel the watergate scandal that led to Nix on s resignation. Because of the singularly odious and vicious nature of this project we Are asking everyone in deference to the Nixon family to refuse to have anything to do either with this project or indeed for the time being with Abc said the memo by top Nixon aide John Taylor. Taylor said researchers for Abc Are contacting Nixon allies looking for help but they Are not reveal ing the film is taken from the final  Nixon blames the Book for a stroke his wife Pat this is the classic enemies list mentality. Don t they Ever learn Bob Woodward suffered after it was published. It May Well be that the producers wish to recruit other of president Nixon s friends and family and Are therefore covering up the True nature of the project along As possible since they must be aware of the re action that they would get from in loyalists at the mention of the Book s title the memo said. Woodward who is helping with the movie denied the network was covering up the origin of the script. This is the classic enemies list mentality that led toll the trouble Woodward told the Herald. My ques Tion to or. Taylor is Don t they Ever learn bit of zaniness May be Mother of inventions Boston a looking for a better Mousetrap a machine to mix your Alka Seltzer a rude awaken ing All were available Over the weekend at the Boston museum of science where some of America s most inventive if not practical Young minds showed off their creations. You could set this thing up by the bed before going out on saturday night and Crank it up first thing in the morning said Brian Langan of Newton mass., the 12-year-old co creator of the automated Alka Seltzer to go machine. It could really catch  to Brian s left John Dodson demonstrated his mouse exterminator. The mouse smells the cheese and runs up the Plank the elementary school student said. When he does it sets off a whole series of reactions that ends right Here with this 1-Pound weight dropping on his  the Wacky Waker upper designed by Mike Shields Dan Pozen and Eric Osterberg was a natural crowd please. The alarm clock reels in a string triggering a Pulley that opens a door Pozen explained. And the Ball flies out the Chute to hit you in the face. It really works the 12-year-old said gesturing toward the cot where Osterberg was stretched out ready to receive another Bonk on the forehead. Charles Chiotelis a 69-year-old former teacher from Lincoln mass., watched As students pitched their projects. It s All about showmanship said Chiotelis who in his retirement has marketed a few of his own inventions. It s learning to make the invention colourful interesting. These contraptions May not be very practical now but you May have a super Engineer of the 21st Century among these  nurturing Young Talent is the Point of the 11th an Nual inventors weekend exhibition which provides a showcase for 80 adolescent new englander plus a few of their elders. It s important to try and spark students to encourage them to see new ways of doing things said Priscil la Korell who represented the Boston Edison co. On a panel of exhibition co sponsors including the Massachusetts Institute of technology and inventors association of new England. Across the room from their younger counterparts were the exhibition s More seasoned inventors. Herb Brown of Burlington vt., said he had t yet tried his galvanic electro fish under real conditions to see whether fish would be attracted to the artificial bait s electric Field. But tests in his homemade tank were promising Brown said. It definitely tantalize them to a Point Brown said. Of course nothing helps when there Are no  crustaceans were of More concern to Peter and Ellen Howard. The Boston couple said that new eng land s fishermen have been catching plenty of crabs but that extracting meat from the shellfish is too costly. 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