European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 a a a the stars and stripes sunday april 29,1990 faces a no places phone firms Boss has nation s top listed number from wire reports the head of Mccaw cellular communications was the nations highest paid chief executive officer last year earning total compensation of $53.9 million business week Magazine said thursday in its annual Survey of corporate salaries. Craig o. Mccaw 40-year-old founder chairman and chief executive of the Kirkland wash., company a the nations largest cellular phone concern a earned that amount m salary bonuses and Stock options the Magazine said. Second was Steven j. Ross co chairman and ceo of time Warner inc., who received $34.2 million As co head of the giant Media company. The bulk of his earnings a $29.4 million a was in Long term compensation such As Stock options. The ranking differs considerably from one released earlier last week by Forbes Magazine. That list ranked coca cola  chief executive officer Roberto c. Goizueta As the highest paid with $10.8 million in salary and other compensation last year. Business week placed Goizueta eighth listing his compensation at $10.7 million. The Forbes list included Only cos from the magazines ranking of the 50 largest . Companies while business week surveyed 356 Public companies in its 40th annual ranking. Mccaw cellular was not among Forbes 50 largest companies. Business week said that among those it surveyed the average chief executives salary and Bonus Rose just 3.4 percent in 1989, to $1,172,533, the smallest increase since the 2 percent Rise in 1970. According to labor department figures the gain trailed the increases for White Collar professionals 4.9 percent and factory employees 3.7 percent. Mccaw whose company has yet to turn a profit earned Only $289,000 in salary but received $53.6 million by exercising Stock options that he and other Mccaw executives received before the company went Public. In third place on business weeks list was Donald a. Pels who received $22.8 million As chairman and chief executive of Lin broadcasting. Mccaw acquired Lin a cellular phone broadcasting and publishing company this year. The other top 10 rankings in order were a Jim p. Manzi chairman president and chief executive of Lotus development corp., who received $16.4 million from the computer software company. A Paul fireman chairman and chief executive of the athletic shoe maker Craig o. Mccaw the nations highest paid corporate executive. Reebok International ltd., who was paid $ 14.6 million All in salary. A Ronald k. Richey chairman and chief executive of Torch Mark corp., who earned $12.7 million from the insurance and financial services company. _ a Martin s. Davis chairman and ceo of Paramount communications. The entertainment company paid him $11.6 million in salary and other compensation. A Goizueta of coca cola who earned $10.7 million. A Michael d. Eisner chairman and chief executive of Walt Disney co., who received $9.6 million. A August a. Busch Iii chairman president and ceo of Anheuser Busch cos., $8.9  bowing out Michael Crawford Star of a the phantom of the opera a will Don his mask and sing a last anguished love song sunday at the Ahmanson theater in los Angeles. For weeks fans of the British actor have been camping out at the theater hoping to get last minute tickets. Some seats have sold for More than $ 1,000. Three pairs of tickets to the final performance donated by Crawford and the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber brought bids totalling $56,000 in a Charity auction sponsored by a local to Sta Tion. Proceeds went to equity fights aids and Para los Ninos a service Agency for poor children. After the performance Crawford will drive across the country with his 22-year-old daughter Lucy before returning to England to prepare for a film version of  Robert Guillaume will replace him in the role in los  crewed gathering the ninth annual International gathering of Crew cuts in Duluth Minn., was Abuzz this year with tales of the perils involved in keeping closely cropped. The Crew assembled thursday at the restaurant where it All began years ago when someone told one of the groups originators Jerry Brown a you Crew cuts Are a dying  to prove that wrong. Brown began recruiting people with Crew cuts for the annual gatherings and found they All carry a sense of Pride. A not too Many Are shy. Maybe it has something to do with the hair standing erect a Brown said. Brown even went so far As to get Minn. Gov. Rudy Perpich to declare thursday Crew Cut Day in the state. At the reunion. Brown remembered getting butchered at a Washington Barber shop. A the Barbera a hand was shaking so bad i walked out of there and my head was like the Rocky mountains a he said. Brown said people with Long hair can have the length uneven by a Quarter Inch and its hardly noticeable. Not so with a Crew Cut. A one slip and you could draw blood a Brown  sign of Spring anyone planning to visit Kresge College part of the University of California at Santa Cruz May require a passport and visa. Students at Kresge one of eight Csc colleges voted overwhelmingly last week a 306-79 a to a a secede from the main Campus. The students on thursday were making plans to Issue passports and entry visas. They also intend to set up toll Booths at a Border  it All started with a ballot measure that sought a secession. Initially it was considered a a symbolic initiative a but Steve Parks chairman of the Kresge student parliament said a a we re going to take this thing a bit  hence the tolls and visas. The measure blasts school administrators As a managers and demagogues rather than the visionaries and idealists who established the school in the redwoods above downtown Santa Cruz in the 1960s. A we secede in the name of the environment we secede in the name of the Earth a stated the initiative. Parks said the secessionist movement was spurred among other things by concerns about fast Campus growth. A Csc spokesman said administrators Are baffled by the move. A we Are not sure what this Means a said John Harvith the schools assistant director of Public  s cars to be sold four cars belonging to comedian Redd Foxx including a 1927 Model to will be auctioned in Las vegas on May 11 to help pay off his tax debt the internal Revenue service said. The irs claims the comedian owes More than $755,166 in taxes for 1983, 1984 and 1986. The irs raided Foxx a Las vegas Home in november and left him Only a bed but a truckload of his personal property was returned after his attorneys argued in court that the possessions were protected under a bankruptcy reorganization plan. An irs spokeswoman said a 1927 Model to a 1975 Panther a 1983 Zimmer and a 1978 jeep Cherokee belonging to Foxx were not returned and will be auctioned along with his Vespa motor Scooter. Dear Abby starvation pollution and discrimination run rampant in our society As Well As in the societies of others. They continue to be ignored by millions of people. Only a Small percentage is willing to fight for changes. The following article appeared in our april fools edition of the St. Cloud state University Minn chronicle. The author is unknown the paper was crammed with fictitious articles except one titled  if you think its worthy of being published in your column Here it is a everyone needs a break from Monotony now and again. That is what this parody edition is All about. But some things do not disappear simply by virtue of momentary laughter. A hundreds upon thousands of men women and children die anonymously each and every Day in heaps of bloated stomachs and Brittle Bones for want of food. Laugh that off loud enough so they will hear you in Ethiopia a the industrialized nations continue to belch nox dear Abby ious filth into the air and Waters of Mother Earth. The rain forests Are dying. The oceans Are dying. The planet is dying. Laugh that off because our children who will inherit this planet most certainly will not. A ethnic racial and class discrimination Are still rolling merrily along throughout the world. The unending Cycle of perverse hatred remains largely unchecked. Laugh that off and watch our children do the same. A and through it All a great majority of the a haves continue to ignore the humiliation and degradation of the  apathy is leading us All Down a dark and terrible Road. Laugh that off. A laugh loud and laugh often for because of our Lack of courage and foresight we Are creating a world for our children that will be anything but  Well Abby do you have any comment i did no to. It is the reality and truth of this commentary that hurts. Lets Hope people will open their eyes and think not Only of themselves but of what our destruction will do to future generations. A a St. Cloud state undergraduate dear undergraduate the Stark truth of that sobering message evokes no laughter a Only tears. How unfortunate that the message appeared on april fools Day. It was clearly no joke. For if we fail to cooperate in a last ditch Effort to save our environment the a a jokes will be on us. Dear Abby a a time is 35. A a Sally is 41. Sally was recently divorced. Tim has been married twice before. Tim and Sally want to marry after knowing each other Only three months Tim is also an alcoholic and drug abuser in addition to being a Womanizer. He has no respect for women a he Only uses them. I should know. I am wife no. 2. I stayed with him for As Long As i could a a total of eight years during which i was ignored neglected and emotionally abused. Tim has never been Able to truly commit to any relationship. My question should i a former spouse inform the prospective Bride about the dark Side of the Man she plans to marry or should i just put blinders on and let them hang themselves with their own rope. A sad in Kentucky dear sad. In my View the Best Way to answer your question is with another question if you were in Sally a shoes would t you want to know c Universal press Syndicate