European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 6 stateside the stars and stripes wednesday january 31.1990 a fish out of water fouls company s takeover ads Portland. Maine a a Wood products giant has been promoting a takeover at tempt involving 2.1 million acres in Maine wit newspaper advertisements showing a smiling sportsman with a big fish. There s just one problem it s the wrong fish. Georgia Pacific corp. Has been running the full Page and for weeks in state newspapers to Winthe favor of residents in its Battle to buy great Northern Nekoosa corp. For $3.8 billion. At least two Cic parts say the fish held by the Fisherman in the and appears to be a striped Bass which lives in coastal Waters and not in Northern Maine the location of the 2.1 million acres at stake in the takeover. I think it was a poor Choice state fisheries biologist Paul Johnson said monday. If they re going to show somebody with a fish they should show a fish from Northern  the advertisement is headlined the Maine facts about  drug testers have number of police superintendent new Orleans a police superintendent Warren Woodfork s number came up when computer chose the first 20 officers to be tested for drugs. He got a Good charge out of  said John Bryson. A department spokesman. The computer has been programmed to randomly choose 20 social Security numbers a Day until the entire department has been checked. An officer has one hour from the time he or she is notified to get to a Laboratory and provide a urine Sample for testing said Bryson. He Sai Woodfork left for the lab immediately after being told. Under the program that went into effect Mon Day an officer who tests positive for drugs will be suspended while the result is investigated said Bryson. Did the chief pass results arc confidential. Journalist Jack Lams Dies of stroke at 79 new York a Jack Lams a journalist novelist and editor whose career spanned More than half a Century died Here of a stroke at age 79.Lams, a reporter for the daily mail of London also wrote for Newsweek and the daily news of new York was television critic for the new York Herald Tribune and was an editor of Atla Magazine now known As the world press re View. An author of comic and mystery novels rewrote 13 books including the Well received 1939 novel table for  he is survived by his wife Joan Walker Wen Ning Lams and three children by his first marriage John a Moscow correspondent for the associated press David a society reporter forthe Philadelphia inquirer and former reporter and editor for the european stars and stripes and Alice Kittic dec of Panama. There Are four grandchildren. Gop chairman let Atwater right hams it up with . King during the Republican party shindig monday. Gop s big donors get treated to a night of Golo entertainment Washington a a Parade of show business stars serenaded president Bush and 800 of the Republican party s biggest donors at a Kennedy Center gala that featured gop chairman Lee Atwater trading Gui tar licks with blues legend . King. Bush advised Atwater afterwards Lee i heard your music. Don t give up your daytime  the gala which Drew much of the Cabinet and gop leaders of Congress evoked a Stream of ringing endorsements for Bush and vice president Dan Quayle who came in mid concert fresh from his trip to latin America. Chubby checker twisted the night away with 15 teens from the Duke Ellington school for the perform ing arts. Tony Bennett Sang his signature song i left my heart in san Francisco and then without Benefit of a microphone Fly me to the  Frankie Valli backed up by the four seasons an two More musicians serenaded the first couple with you re just too Good to be True and said in his Brief political pitch we believe you re doing an in credible Job and we certainly Are looking Forward to seven More years of the Bush  other entertainers included jazz pianist Harry con Nick or. And country Singer Randy Travis. After watching a slide show that noted Bush had met with 120 foreign leaders and logged 130,000 Miles on trips in his first year a Macc Mary Hart of television s entertainment tonight quipped seeing what you have done in one year i m exhausted. Russian born comedian Yakov Smirnoff said the chairman of the Republican party playing a guitar. What a country i la Tell you try to picture Gorbachev doing  Smirnoff took questions from the audience an someone asked what he thought of the soviet Leader. I think he s doing a Good Job he said but he quickly added. Let me ask you this How Many peo ple Here Trust Gorbachev applaud if you do. There was a Ripple of applause through the Hall. Of. How Many people Here Don t Trust him most of the crowd began clapping. Thai s what i think said Smirnoff. Atwater said the evening brought together three of his idols his wife. Sally pregnant with their third child his political idol Bush and blues great , Clad in Tuxedo shimmied rolled his Tongue and puckered his lips up into a fish face As he played in tandem with King. It was a sedate audience that resisted most of the stars efforts to instigate rhythmic clapping or singing. The evening was billed As the presidential inaugural anniversary  the Price of a ticket was $1.000on top of the j 10,000-a-year dues that the donors pay for the privilege of being designated a Republican Eagle a club created 15 years ago As one of the gop s most successful fund raising devices. Schroeder seeks funds to halt slide in birth control Chicago a the nation needs user Friendly birth control methods to reduce its 3.4 million unplanned pregnancies each year and end the War Over abortion says a lawmaker backing More funding for contraceptive research. In the 80s, Iran and the United slates were the Only two countries that really went backward in family plan Ning rep. Patricia Schroeder d-colo., said monday at a planned parenthood conference. We should be discussing where we want to be five years from now whether we still want to be at War on these issues or whether we want to be at  Schroeder said she and rep. Olympia Snowe a Maine decided we wanted to be at  they co sponsored a Mea sure last july to make the Federal govern ment the Leader in finding new methods of birth control and techniques against infertility which affects an estimated one in six . Women. Their proposal Calls for spending $77.2 million Over five years to establish five new research centers exploring the two issues. Any woman who reads women s magazines knows what the damage of the 80s has been Schroeder said. You pick up any Magazine and Many newspapers and there s constantly some kind of article questioning the safety of current contraceptives now Why in t inc Federal govern ment answering those questions Federal funds for such research through the National inst Lutcs of health and the Agency for International development totalled $30.8 million in 1988, Down from $32.4 million in 1987."the amount of dollars spent a year for this research would keep the defens department running for 15 minutes said or. Louise b. Tyrer vice president of medical affairs for the planned parenthood federation of America inc. Schmo Cdr said safety questions Over available contraceptive methods had reduced options for .  be been left to what Cleopatra had sponges she  question is How do we make contraceptives user Friendly to women an to men. And that they feel arc Safe lawsuits Over intrauterine devices Orlds have undermined the ability of most . Pharmaceutical companies to Market  Congress in the 1970s declined to fund Federal research into birth control methods that would act after Conception such a ru-486, the so called abortion Pill developed in France