European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 21, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 is l Emmett Lewis or towering Challenge Steven k. Finch 22, Scales a rappelling climbing Tower built at Camp Freedom in Daut pc West Germany by eight members of the 94th eng combat in from Darmstadt. The facility was turned Over to the boy scouts in a ceremony Fri Day. Finch a student at the University of Florida is working with boy scout troop 135 while stay ing with his parents. Shevardnadze says tone of Bush talk amazed him Moscow a foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze said in an interview released Friday that he was amazed by the old ideological film on presi Dent Bush s address several weeks ago on . His comments in the communist party daily pravda transmitted by the official soviet news Agency Tass were the first High level reaction to Bush s May 12 speech at Texas am University. The speech of president Bush at the Texas univer sity i admit amazed me Shevardnadze said. It amazed me with its Lone. I would even say with it somehow old ideological film and. In places with its didactic inclination. It seemed to us that our political dialogue already had crossed into a new category freed from the Blind ers of ideological rhetoric that we May carry it out without empty polemic  the minister just Back from the soviet chinese Summit in Beijing with president Mikhail s. Gorba Chev said it was completely incomprehensible to the soviets Why Bush said the soviet Union had yielded to Washington s appeals to renew negotiations on Strate Gic nuclear weapons. He said the soviet government had Long been press ing to restart the talks but the Bush administration delayed while it conducted a review of its arms control policy. Still Shevardnadze said he found some Correct positive thoughts in the statements of Bush and Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii who visited Moscow two weeks ago. And he added we will judge . Policies not by their words but by their  both sides said at the end of Baker s two Day vision May 11 that the new . Administration got off to a Good Start in its relationship with the soviet Union. Gorbachev proposals Smock of or gambits Quayle says by the Washington Post Washington vice president Dan Quayle re peeling the widespread frustration in the Bush administration with the Public relations skills of Mikhail Gorbachev accused the soviet president Friday of making phony arms reduction offers that amount to Little More than or  Quayle at a breakfast with reporters said i certainly accept and find nothing troubling about White House press Secretary Marlin Fitzwalter s description of Gorbachev As a drugstore  Fitz water used the phrase last week to suggest that Gorba Chev has been making one heralded proposal after another with Little substance to Back them up. A drugstore Cowboy in a sense connotes a bit of phoniness. And there is a bit of phoniness about the Gorbachev proposals Quayle said he is perceived As making Radical proposals out there when they arc really  Quayle mentioned in particular the latest proposal for a unilateral reduction of Warsaw pact conventional weapons. Quayle is the latest in a string of officials who have privately and publicly complained about Gorbachev s skill in portraying himself As leading the Way in reducing weapons and seeking peace while the new .administration resists overtures and counsels caution. On tuesday when Fitzwater first made his colourful attack on Gorbachev Quayle s first reaction to a re Porter unfit Rcd by diplomatic niceties was an in Stant endorsement great. Good for  Quayle said Friday that Gorbachev s popularity inthe West makes it More difficult for us and that having a soviet Leader who is very pleasing to the West has an easy mannerism to him who is very goo from a Public relations press or Point of View makes it harder for the . To gain Public approval that is needed to maintain some of its defense  has a tremendous advantage in the Competition to shape world opinion Quayle said. He can just throw a proposal out one Day take it Back the next Day. He can make a proposal without consulting anybody. He does t have to worry about Public Opin Ion at Home or about his  Quayle noted that even if the soviets made their announced reductions in Europe their conventional advantage would remain significant. Nominee paid $284 a Day pending Senate of Washington a William Lucas is working for the Justice depart ment As a $284-a-Day consultant while awaiting Senate confirmation As assist ant attorney general for civil rights the department said Friday. Lucas whose nomination is opposed by some civil rights groups who question his professional qualifications is studying the Justice department s role in training Law enforcement officials to be sensitive about civil rights issues and re port potential violations said David Runkel chief Justice department spokesman. Runkel said that the $284-pcr-Day consulting agreement which took effect March 20, is a common arrangement for Bush administration officials As they await Senate action on their Nomi nations. Lucas who garnered More than half his 1988 earnings As a consultant for the Republican National committee continued to work for the gop until february Runkel said. Lucas financial disclosure form showed that last year Lucas earned $65,000 As a gop consultant studying ways to recruit Blacks into the Republican party. He earned $53,000 As a lawyer last year and was paid $7,500 As a corporate director. The $284 daily rate he now receives is equivalent to an annual salary of $73,840. Top world Wise kid Happy spelling does t count by the Washington Post Washington Jack Laddon was Lucky it was t a spelling Bee. Does spelling count one of his rivals asked Friday in the final round of the National geographic society s first annual National geography Bee. No came the reply. So the bespectacled 15-year-old from great Bend Kan. Who at 6 feet 6, Calls himself the shortest person in my class the dumbest person in my class and also the Only person in my class at the six student great Bend seventh Day adv Tisl Church school thrived with such answers As Merman is for Murmansk the soviet Union s northernmost seaport in the written portion of the Bee. In the end he solved the crucial problem name two Island countries in the Indian Ocean by scrawling maldives and Madagascar on a Sheet of paper. Moderator Alex to cock of jeopardy Fame squinted quizzically at the answer. It looks a Little strange said the game show Host recognizing the slightly abridged form of Mada Gascar. But i be got news for you. You re right and you re the Champion thus amid tumultuous applause from parents teachers and fellow competitors in the National Geo graphic society s auditorium Laddon proved him self the most world Wise at least in geographical terms kid in the United states. He bested More than 1 million participating fourth through eighth graders from some 15,000 schools in 55 states and territories to win a $25,000 College scholarship. Sen. Bill Bradley d-n.j., the author of geography awareness week Bill gave the Champion a Bonus gift an american Flag that had flown Over the Capi Tol. The former kicks basketball Star is an Inch Shorter than Staddon who plays the cello not basketball. Runner up Michael Shannon a diminutive 14 year old from Reading mass. Who when Trybek inquired if he was 12, protested i m not that Short won a $15,000 scholarship. And third place win Ner kick Luu 14, a Star Pupil at Ken Moor Middle school in Landover my. Who fled Vietnam nine years ago with his family in a fishing boat took Home a $10,000 scholarship. When i m out in Green pastures nibbling on the grass i la be convinced that with kids like you com ing along this country can remain a great and pow Erful positive influence on planet Earth said National geographic society president Gilbert m. Grosvenor who presented the three finalists with giant cardboard checks. Grosvenor has been planning the Bee since late last year. He committed $1 million of the society s Money to it after a society commissioned Gallup poll last july showed that american 18 to 24-year-Olds arc geographically ignorant. Indeed one seventh of the americans could t identify their own country on a world map