European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Les. Meaning that to can be transmitted from yes Turnboe out so quickly the journalist a the Story together. He has no time to set or edit the pictures Are the Story. I a a a pm to Tom Anchor cannot stay Home he must l a ures travelling is not a gimmick. It is the iks Way cd trying to change a decades old format a ,0 to the new reality of television. A is shift toward a More purely visual medium kneed the Rote of the Anchorman As Well. It role in Cronkite s Day was to be a kind of a no storyteller often for stories that had no when the Anchorman hits the Road his presence not news judgement determines the Content of the show. Ires. But today with viewers Able to see so Many is with their own eyes the Anchor has been a formed into a kind of travelling companion a Quot a i Turner Quot Grossman said a a kind of Val Dator a presence signals that a Story is important and i a sense of continuity. It to critics have complained that anchors times devote too much time to stories they have led to and thus exaggerate their importance in the Anchorman hits the Road his presence not judgment determines the Content of the show Quot Hington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote Fere appears to be some Validity to this criticism As i on feb. 13, for instance two of the three networks he nightly news with second Day reports of a delay a Freedom in South Africa where they had their firs. Only Abc led with the news that the world War ii j Powers had effectively agreed to German if cation the Story most of the worlds press ran As a 1 Page Banner headline. The wandering Anchor Here an interpreter left relays orders from a chinese official right to lbs television personality Dan rather to Stop broadcasting from Tiana men Square in Beijing m May 1989. Adjusting to peace 3y Kathleen Hendrix of Angeles times Ake away the cold War and we done to have anything left. We Don t know Why we get up in the  retired rear adm. Gene Robert la Rocque 71, was referring to his fellow countrymen but he could have been talking about Nim Selt and the institution that he runs the Center for it defense information in Washington , Gid is a research and analysis organization dedicated to a i Strong military but opposed to excessive spending on weapons and policies that increase the danger of nuclear War. The questions before the Center As with Many groups in the loosely defined peace movement Are. Now what will the thaw in the cold War focus National attention on military spending or Lull americans into indifference founded by la Rocque when he  the Navy in 1972, the Gid flourished during the last years of the Vietnam War and continued to grow after the War ended fuelled like Many other organizations in the peace movement by fears of nuclear confrontation. The Gid has always been Able to raise the Money Tor its budget now $1,7 million a year. La Rocque said he need for the Center was Felt in the country i never had to work to get the  not that the Center was preaching to the  eed the Center often ventures into hostile alien or suspicious territory a congressional committees the in agon the state department the White House a a 19,1990 sometimes invited sometimes unsolicited. Larry kerb now a fellow at the Brookings institution in Washington was assistant Secretary of defense from 198185, and As such dealt often with la Rocque and the Center. Quot they do very Good analysis Quot Korb said. Quot they re very useful if you want to know something like How much a Trident costs. But the problem is normally they Are against this not for that. They done to say a Don t build this but you should build that Quot. As far As nuclear weapons Are concerned Korb said the Center s anti nuclear stance tends to be Quot almost like a phobia Quot which makes their Quot just get rid of them Quot criticism simplistic at times. Quot where they have an Impact is that they re a group of former military Quot Korb said. Quot that increases their credibility More than if they were a group of. Woodstock alumni. I be had Gene lecture at the Navy War College and almost lost my Job. My attitude was if he a right we ought to know about it. If he a wrong the students Are going to find  until recently the cd provided the country s Only privately funded Quot second opinion Quot on military weaponry and systems la Rocque said of the organization s influence in opposing such matters As the b-1 bomber and underground nuclear testing Quot maybe we broke a Little ice Quot now with Quot peace breaking out All Over Quot la Rocque said the Gid in theory should be out of a Job. But he added americans real work a adjusting to the new Era has just begun. Quot we re caught up in the psychology of the cold War. We be been at it 40 years Quot la Rocque said during a visit to los Angeles. Quot the military Industrial Complex remains a big influence in this country. It s Clear our enemies Are aids drugs homelessness. We need to fill the potholes build schools clean up the environment help czechoslovakian president Vaclav Havel. Quot we cannot play a major role in the world if we do not have Money. Our Treasury is broken. Every tuesday we have a giant bake Sale and sell enough Bonds to run the government Tor a week. We borrow from the very people we try to defend Germany and Japan. If we do not make a significant change the world is going to move ahead and leave us behind. For starters la Rocque would like to see the defense budget reduced by one third to $200 billion by 1995 and . Troop strength reduced from 3 million to 2 million. And he and his Center staff which includes other retired military officers and civilians Are prepared to give line item advice on those reductions. But the question remains now what Quot in be been trying to Appeal to some of the conservatives in the country. These fellas who want a Strong nation to be Able to compete in the world with consumer products. Get them to recognize we re  Many peace organizations have been reacting to the thaw in the cold War with Calls for Quot economic conversion Quot away from military spending. Although much of what la Rocque says sounds similar he detests the term. Quot maybe to me As kid in Catholic schools there a a religious connection. We re not out to convert but to diversify to commercial products we can Market around the world. We need a Strong military. In a a military  the stars and stripes a a a Page 15