European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 11,1989 men ruined red Riding Hood scholar says san Francisco a the Little red Riding Hood Story read to generations of children is a fake distorted from original Folk versions by male writers who made the girl into a frail victim an anthropologist said saturday. Male writers completely ruined the tale by bringing men into it said Alan Dundas of the University of California Berkeley editor of a new Book of schol arly essays on the classic Folk talc. They made the girl a weak Little thing who had to be rescued. The Origi Nal Folk talc is a female Story in which the Mother sends the daughter out and the Little girl is  Dundas Book includes analyses of Little red Riding Hood by psychologists historians anthropologists and sociologists plus versions of the Oral Folk tale collected in Europe and Asia. There Are enough Oral versions around in different languages so that we know what the original must have been like Dundas said in an interview. The original versions of the Folk tale May have been considered too crude by Charles Perrault the French writer who first put the Story into written form in1697 and made it into a moral fable warning girls against listening to Stran Gers. Dundas said. At the end. Little red Riding Hood was gobbled up by the Wolf. The Grimm Brothers Jakob and Wilhelm based their popular 1812 Story on a secondhand account of per Rault s version and changed the ending. This time the girl was saved by a Hunter who Cut open the wolfs stomach to allow Little red Riding Hood and her grandmother to Spring out alive. Once upon a time though. Little red Riding Hood was a Crafter charac Ter who escaped the wolfs big Teeth. In fact. Dundas said the Wolf was originally female and the Little girl did t even have a red Hood. In european Oral Folk stories the girl unwittingly cats the flesh and blood of her grandmother who had been killed by the Wolf Dundas said. In various asian versions she is tricked by the villain usually a female Tiger or Ogress into eating her sister s Finger or Bone. In All the Oral stories. Dundas said the girl triumphs Over the villain and gets away. Perrault and the Grimm  the cannibalism and made Little red Riding Hood into a real wimp who stupidly tells the Wolf where she s going on the Way to her grandmother Dundas said. The feminists have attacked the wrong tale Dundes said. They Are rightly concerned about the influence fairy talks have in society. But they should be attacking the Gnamm or per Rault or Wall Disney versions. It s not the talc that s at fault. It s the male ver  deficit ironically preventing a from cutting insurance program Washington a in a classic Washington twist in appears inc Federal budget deficit is All thai is standing in the Way of killing a major social program catastrophic health insurance for retirees. The Way inc govern Mcnol works repealing the pro Gram would Worsen next year s a Cicil by about $5 billion. Thai s because taxes to finance the Calastro Pic insurance arc being Coll Cid More quickly than benefits arc being paid. Some who watch Congress closely say that even the Defi Cit problem is nol enough to save the new insurance pro Gram. They predict the House and Senate will repeal it. The catastrophic insurance which everyone eligible for medicare is required to buy is under attack from retirees who already have such coverage and  americans who Don t like having to buy coverage for i Host Wilh lower incomes. Because of a barrage of complaints the House ways and Means committee and the Senate finance commit tee Are making major changes in the program reducing benefits and cutting the surtax on higher income retirees thai provides most of the Money. But in ways and Means especially there is heavy sentiment for repeal. When Senate Republican leaders met Wilh president Bush at the White House last week they came downward for repeal. The adminis Lvalion wants no changes. Neither committee will advocate repeal because if in did so. In would have to find Aboul $5 billion of new Midwest floods 2 Feen agers by the associated press two Missouri then Agurs drowned in separate Acci dents while playing in flood swollen Walers and at least seven people were injured one by lightning As powerful  moved through Indiana on  Hammer 18, of Gladstone mo., was killed when he was pulled into the 7-f90t-Dccp line Creek in Kansas City mo., Sulho relics said. Hammer s room Malc Mike Marquez said inc iwo had gone to inc Creek about Midnight. We were out late and had nothing else to do. So we thought we d mess around in the water Marquez said. Up to 4 inches of rain fell in the Kansas City area overnight. A 13-year-old North Kansas City boy died when he was swept Inlo a storm Drain Friday Ghl. Robert Ragsdale was pronounced dead about 7 . At North Kansas City Hospital. Ragsdale and a Friend were Riding the drainage ditch like a water slide and the water current just got too Strong said Bob Jones a spokesman for the Kan Sas City police department. In Indiana the storm sparked Flash flooding and Cul electrical Power in Indianapolis. An unidentified 14-year-old girl was treated and re leased after lightning struck near her during halftime of saturday s football game Between Miami of Ohio and Purdue in la Faytle officials , in new palc Sling below eco six and eight people received minor injuries when go Stag winds knocked Down a Lent at a festival police said. Taxes to prevent the deficit from  aides predict however that most Law makers will be unable to resist voting for repeal when the hotly disputed Issue reaches inc floor Floc  the catastrophic coverage Law was enacted a year ago Congress and the Reagan administration agreed that in should be Sci up like an insurance pro Gram. Al least in the Early years Money to finance benefits would be collected at a faster Pace than Bene fits would be paid  first part of coverage a Cal into of Eccl this year providing some Protection against expenses of a lengthy Hospital  of the taxes and fees thai finance Cala strophic benefits arc already being paid by retirees inc biggest part of inc Bill will become due when tax returns arc filed Early in 1990. Bui for Al least most of 1990, significantly less will be going out in Benefit checks than is being paid  office of management and budget estimates that if catastrophic coverage were repealed inc 1990 deficit would be swollen by from $4 billion to $7 Bil lion. That would be enough under the Gramm Rud Man balanced budget Law to trigger automatic reductions in most Federal  what is happening to those taxes and fees Hal Rel ices Are paying for catastrophic coverage the Money is being mixed with All other lax dollars in inc Treasury paying Federal salaries buying weapons and fighting illegal drugs. All his buttons Dalton Stevens admires his car that s covered by 100,000 buttons. Among the items the Basho Pville n.c., Man has covered with buttons is his casket. That took 60,000. He says he s an insomniac and spends his sleepless hours gluing on buttons. Stateside paraplegic Rock musician accuses la. Club of Bias los Angeles a a paraplegic Rock musician has filed a discrimination complaint with the state alleging that the popular Rock club the troubadour refused to Book his act. They told me they d heard i had a following of 50 wheelchair groupies coming to watch me perform and they could t have that Stampede Dorik Perrian said. He complained 19 the slate department of fair employment and housing. Pc Man. 34. Has been disabled since childhood by muscular dystrophy. But he has earned favourable re views As a Rock v roller playing such los Angeles clubs As the Roxy Gazzam s and club lingerie. Troubadour officials denied they discriminated against pc Man. He docs not have a following and those who Don a we Don t Book. That s just business said Gina Barsa Mian. Who is in charge of bookings for the club. She added that the club has no ramp or room for wheel chairs on stage so this would be for his own safety  Ohio woman has quilts but one of babies stillborn Cleveland a a woman who had been Tak ing Fertility drugs delivered quintuplets saturday eve Ning but one of the infants was stillborn a Hospital spokeswoman said. Elonna Mckibbon of Youngstown. Delivered three girls and a boy. University hospitals spokeswoman fran Annan said. The fifth and stillborn baby was a girl the spokeswoman said. Arman said no additional information on the births was available because Mckibben was still groggy from labor and general anaesthesia and her husband did not want the information released. Quintuplets occur naturally once per 6 million to 7 million births but for oilily drugs increase those Odds. First class baby born on jumbo Jet to new York new York a a boy was born saturday in the first class Section of a jumbo Jet bound from Lon Don to new York police said. It s a first class baby said it. Kevin Hasselt of inc port authority police at John f. Kennedy International Airport. The boy was born about 5 45 . Saturday aboard a Kuwait airways Boeing 747 while the plane was Over Canada Hassitt said. The baby which was delivered by two doctors aboard flight 101, was t due until oct. 18. The Moth or Bethzaida Dimesa 41, had received permission to be on the flight with the child s father Ward Awwad a Steward aboard the plane. Imagine being a Steward working 9n the flight and All of a sudden your wife is giving birth to your first child Hassitt said. Both Mother and child were taken to Queens Gener Al Hospital in Good condition he said. The child will be a kuwaiti citizen retaining the same citizenship As his parents said Hassett who obtained the information from immigration officials