European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes Friday june 8, 1990woman just can t shrug off hug Day by Dre Jubera Cox news service she hugs with impunity As if licensed by an Agency walking into a roomful of strangers and hugging away tiny and German born and irrepressible a or. Ruth without the sex. A i stand in front of them open my arms and say t want a  nobody denies it said Inge Johnston 66, who with her husband or. James Johnston 57, is trying to elevate june 11 into a Date the whole country will recognize As National hug Day. A we were at a health food store once and i got 500 hugs a mrs. Johnston said of a hug Day past. There have been seven hug Days so far and its listed in a a Chaser a Book of annual events As coinciding with National impressionists Day and National Little league baseball week. A one couple walked by and the wife said they weren to interested. Then the husband came Back three times for what i Call  a i told his wife a lady you should change your tune. He is hungry for it a a because of what they see As a generally repressed a a hunger around the country the Johnstons said it s no easy task to float a hug Day. Americans might blow kisses give five slap on the Back Pat on the Fanny tap on the shoulder wrestle with terms tackle difficult situations and Seal deals with a handshake. But hug rarely. A not Only does our background not encourage hugging it does no to encourage touching Quot said or. Johnston. A people around the Mediterranean Are All big Hugger. But we re from a mostly Puritan English  the Johnstons scheme for making hugging As popular in America As say haranguing is this from now until monday a hug hot line 303-3402054 will be open in Denver at the couples hug Headquarters which is otherwise the National Institute of nutritional education of which Johnston is director. Those Manning the phones will inform the uninformed about hug Day basics including How to put together a hug collection Center a Booth offering free hugs and How to throw a hug party. They will also give information on How to collect hug pledges which Are merely promises to Hue Somr body a without Cash involved. A everybody wants to give me Money after Thev hug a mrs. Johnston said. A they think nobody does anything for  the idea for a hug Day started about a decade ago while mrs. Johnston was a nutrition Counselor in Florida. Having hugged wounded soldiers when she was a nurse in Berlin during world War ii she capped her counselling sessions with a hug. Clients soon were dropping by her office without an appointment saying they needed a Quick hug for reinforcement. A there Are a lot of older people in Florida who left friends and moved to Paradise Only they found Paradise was a lonely place a mrs. Johnston said. A they needed a hug More than  Calls animal rights activists a terrorists Washington apr the nations top health official portrayed animal rights activists thursday As a a terrorists and said their tactics jeopardize the future of disease curing experiments. A animal research has saved millions of human lives a said health and human services Secretary Louis Sullivan. A it is an integral part of Mankind a striving for the betterment of humanity. A i am saddened and a bit angry that we have to put up with major disruptions to science by so called animal activists who Are in fact nothing More than animal rights terrorists a he said. Animal rights activists who plan to March sunday in the nations capital responded to Sullivan a remarks calling them  they said he was ignoring the continuing exploitation of Laboratory animals that suffer needlessly while alternative non animal testing methods Are available. Sullivan was joined at a news conference by officials from the association of american medical colleges actor David blimey who is a National spokesman for the american diabetes association rep. Vin Weber a Minn. And parents of children who have benefited from medical procedures that ski a re Reg up m a. Al 1 a a 11 ? x a amp a. Splashy skiing with the arrival of summertime one ski footwork. The late afternoon weather in Arkansas Tracy Steward of Sun silhouettes the skier on a Lake in Searcy makes a splash with his fancy North Little Rock. Evolved from animal experiments. Also participating were representatives of the beef Dairy poultry and other industries dependent on animals. Sullivan said that a virtually everyone agrees that unnecessary animal research or the cruel use of animals is  he added however that the Federal government has in place regulations that ensure that research animals Are treated humanely a and that we do everything possible to reduce any pain or discomfort that May result from experiments. He said cruel treatment of animals by research scientists was a very  blimey who played the role of a doctor on the television series a St. Elsewhere a ticked off a list of medical advances that have resulted from animal research including insulin for diabetics antibiotics Organ transplants drug therapies and skin grafts. A without animal research Many of us in this room would be dead a he said. Len Koch chairman of the incurably 111 for animal research said the activists use a lies distortion and misinformation a to wage a sophisticated Campaign that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars. House overrides veto of Amtrak funding Bill Washington apr the House voted 294-123 thursday to override president Bush a veto of a Bill authorizing $2 billion for Amtrak and increasing government Power Over freight Railroad acquisitions. The override measure went to the Senate where the vote was expected to be closer. A two thirds vote of both houses is required to turn Back a presidential veto. Congress has failed to override All 10 previous Bush vetoes. Bush has said he would support Amtrak funding unlike former president Reagan but objected to increased Power to be Given the interstate Commerce commission calling it a a step backward for the entire rail  democrats argued that the commission already has Power Over the Sale of a portion of a Railroad or the Sale of More than one Railroad to investors outside the Industry but has decided it cannot scrutinize the Sale of a whole Railroad. House gop Leader Bob Michel of Illinois introduced a Bill thursday before the veto vote that contained All of the provisions of the Amtrak legislation except for the interstate Commerce commission Section. A the president is committed to an adequate passenger rail service a Michel told the House adding that Bush would not veto the new measure. The veto has affected daily train operations because the Railroad is working with Money that Congress already had appropriated. The Bill envisions More than $2 billion going to Amtrak through sept. 30, 1992. Actual amounts will be determined when Congress appropriates the Money. Twin guilty of evading taxes on Money from elderly Man Milwaukee apr a Federal jury on thursday convicted a former Playboy Model on charges she failed to pay taxes on $398,000 she received to provide companionship to an elderly millionaire. The jury deliberated about 3 Xhu hours wednesday evening and thursday morning before finding Leigh Ann Conley 35, guilty on four Misdemeanour counts of failing to file Federal income tax returns. The conviction comes a month after her twin sister Lynnette Harris also a Playboy Model was found guilty of evading taxes on $686,000 she received from the same businessman the late David Kritzik. She could be sentenced to four years in prison and $325,000 in fines. In Harris trial the government alleged the Money she received from Kutzik was in Exchange for sex. In Conley Scase prosecutors changed she accepted the Money in Exchange for her companionship. Conley said she believed the jury in her trial was a totally biased because of my Sisters Case. I  get a fair  defense attorney Aaron Starobin said thursdays verdict would be appealed. The government he said had failed to prove during the trial that the Money his client had received was for a service and thus taxable. A my feeling is the hype this Case received made it very difficult for the jury to separate the Law and facts from the emotion a Starobin said