European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday february 10.1990 Senate panel questions logic of defense plan Washington a senators told Bush administration officials Friday that they arc having a hard Lime explaining to constituents Why deeper cuts can t be made in . Troop strength in Europe. The logic of All this is getting very hard to explain to  sen. Larry Pressler. R-s.d., told Wil Liam Taft. . Ambassador to nato. Tall told the Senate foreign relations committee that american forces in Europe s Central zone will not be reduced below 195.000. Even if the soviets pull Back Cvar Soldier they have in the Region. Even without a direct and immediate soviet threat he said. . Troops arc needed As a visible sign of continued american commitment to nato and euro Pean Security. We have to have visible soldiers walking around Pressler asked. That s going to be hard for me to sell in South  tall and James f. Dobbins acting assistant Secre tary of slate for Europe did More listening than talk ing when they came to testify before the committee on nato s future. Pressler. Echoing concerns of committee colleagues noted that prosperous . Allies such As France and West Germany arc Able to shoulder a larger share of the defense Burden and that the United states should be Able to reap some defense savings because of the soviet Union s rapidly shrinking sphere of influence. President Bush s proposed 1991 defense budget docs not recognize anything that has happened in the world in the past six  said sen. Paul Simon. Dell. We must be creative and responsive and i Don t think at this Point we arc  under questioning from sen. Paul Sarbanis. D-md., Taft and Dobbins said it was Clear that the threat to Western Europe has greatly diminished both because of i he changes in Eastern Europe and because of the new treaty limiting intermediate Range nuclear forces. But tall said the 195.000-troop figure Bush pro posed in his stale of the Union speech last month is a Rock Bottom number because it looks right to the president s military  for the foreseeable future nato s strategy of de Terrence for the prevention of War based upon both nuclear and conventional forces remains the Best Way to prevent War and protect our Freedom Taft said. Dobbins said nato created after world War ii in response to the soviet domination of Eastern Europe is no longer predicated upon the present or any. Level of soviet  the stability of nato is the Best Hope for prompt ing peaceful change and a supportive context for Politi caland economic Reform in the East he said. . Hot dog company trying to Cut the Mustard in Chicago Chicago a on the baseball Diamond it s acts is. Cubs. For architects it s scars Tower is. World Trade Center. Now. Nathan s famous of new York has thrown some fat and other byproducts on the fire of the Chicago new York rivalry. They re calling it the War of the dogs. Relish the thought new York style frankfurters girded against Chi dogs. It s still too Early to Tell which Wiener can Cut the Mustard. Nathan s of Westbury . Dating Back to 1916 and famous for its hot dog stands on Coney Island s Boardwalk and 42nd Street in the big Apple decided last year to open a place in the w indy City Home to 3,000 hot dog stands. It looked like a Tough Market to crack for the new yorkers w to say Frank when they mean hot dog. But Nathan s marketing research showed that Many chicagoan were familiar with the company s name and would pay extra for a gourmet Frank that Cost si.59. We figured if we could make it there Chic Gowe could make it anywhere said Larry Fierstein a vice president of Nathan s in new York. Frankly not everyone was throwing out the Wel come mat. Docs Newcastle need Coal does Alaska need Salmon docs Idaho need potatoes More than 3.000 hot dog stands in greater grander metropol Itan Chica Goland and these people come bearing frankfurters said a Tongue in Check editorial from the Chicago Tribune. Nevertheless around thanksgiving Day Nathan s famous opened up shop where Rush Street meets stale Street in the heart of this City s glitzy entertainment District. I like this place. It s clean it s Bright and it s different said Patrick a. Connolly 67, a Chicago financier who was smoking a Foo Long Cigar but carrying a couple of Nathan s regular size Franks on wednesday night. The taste is out of this  Connolly said he can afford the posh eateries in the neighbourhood but prefers the dogs at Nathan s. Barry pot Kin co owner of downtown s Gold coast dog has challenged Nathan s to a hot dog taste test. They called themselves the Gucci of hot dogs. That ticked us off. What is this perfume he asked. Bob Hardison is caught Between the dog soldiers of each S.D.. He s a chicagoan but manages the City s first Nathan s. I like both styles he insisted diplomatically. The new York style he explained is with mus Tard and sauerkraut while Chicago style is with chicagoan Galen Dana Snak. Chomps Down on a Nathan s famous Mustard relish onions tomatoes peppers and just about anything else that will fit on the Bun. Not wanting to choose sides Nathan s has a Condi ment bar for customers to choose their own fixings. There s also a difference in the Way the two dogs arc cooked. Nathan s Frank is prepared on a griddle while Chicago s dogs arc usually boiled in water. Nathan s dogs arc More intense and spicier but not altogether More pleasant than Chicago s dogs said Tribune food critic Phil Vittel. But wednesday night a 50-year-old Man remembered bygone dogs and said that neither City s product was frankly Worth sniffing at. The Best hot dog place was Dave s at Homan and Roosevelt when i was 8," said Harvey Shapiro a messenger service employee. It was 20 cents for a hot dog and an Orange crush slur or misquote words spark Campaign dispute Austin. Texas a gubernatorial candidate Ann Richards who gained attention for a speech at the 1988 democratic National Conven Tion has stirred up controversy by seeming to refer in a debate to a while  Richards the slate treasurer denied that she used the term during wednes Day s debate among the three leading democratic candidates. Her Campaign manager. Glenn Smith insisted that she had actually said Why a woman and that she had been misheard. Rival Jim Mattox. State attorney general said the comment showed that Richards represented the White Femi nist  that prompted Smith to Sav Mallox had exceeded the Bounds of  at Issue was an answer Richards gave during the televised debate. She said she would veto a Bill to forbid abortions for girls 16 or younger. No legislator no judge and no bureaucrat has any business in determining whether a White woman has an abortion or not she appeared to say. After the debate Richards said she did t recall exactly what words she used but added that White women. Is not a phrase that 1 ure. I think what i said was Why women " Smith said thursday that Richards was saying whether or Why u woman in her answer. But Mattox said that his opponent offended Many texans. Based on the comments last night and based on the Calls that have been coming into my office is. Richards owes the Black and hispanic communities of Texas an apology. It s very Clear that in her mind set that she rep resents the White feminist fringe in Texas Mattox told a Houston news conference thursday. Smith said Mattox was panicking because of polls showing him running third among democrats in the March 13 primary. Incumbent Republican gov. Bill Clements is retiring. Mattox is acting desperate but this goes beyond the Bounds of decency Smith said adding that Mallox should be criticized for injecting race into the  neither Mattox nor the third leading democratic candidate former gov. Mark White nor a panel of journalists questioned Richards about the remark during their debate. The subject was raised during a Post debate news con Ference. A spokesman for while called for clarification thursday. I Don t think Ann intended to make a racial slur. However i think that she needs to clarify what she said said Gary rasp White s press Secretary. In her keynote address during the 1988 democratic convention Rich Ards poked fun at then gop presiden tial candidate George Bush saying he was born with a Silver foot in his  top chiropractor hails ruling Banning Ama Boycott Chicago a the head of a a Lional chiropractors group on Friday hailed an appeals court s decision to up hold a 1987 ruling that the american medical association illegally attempted to destroy his profession. The ruling will make up for years of oppression chiropractors have suffered from the Ama Louis Sportelli. Chair Man of the american chiropractic association said in a Telephone interview Friday. The 7th . Circuit court of appeals on wednesday affirmed the finding of . District judge Susan Getzendanner who found the Ama Boycott of chiropractors to be in violation of antitrust Law. She permanently barred the nation s largest organization of physicians from boycotting chiropractors who treat patients with physical manipulation focused on the spine. The Ama has not decided whether to Appeal the Case further said Kirk John son one of the association s attorneys. There arc about 45,000 chiropractors in the United slates according to the american chiropractic association. Chiropractors arc required to finish two years of College in addition to four years of chiropractic College