European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 a a a the stars and stripes sunday september 9,1990hank s record in t music to Rabbitt s ears from wire reports the crisis in the persian Gulf has prompted country Singer Hank Williams or. To pen a a done to give us a reason a a defiant Anthem in which he figuratively thumbs his nose at Iraq. But another country artist Eddie Rabbitt does no to think Williams has the right idea. Williams popular new song warns the iraqis not to give the United states a reason to use military Force. A you can take your Poison Gas and stick it up your Sassafras a says one stanza. A i done to know what his reasons Are for writing that a Rabbitt says. A i guess he thinks he a speaking for America and the Way people feel when he says a done to give us a reason to kick your a although Rabbitt is unabashedly patriotic a his own new single is tilled a american boy a he is wary of mixing music and politics. A a in a not much into those kind of songs a says Rabbitt. A to play with this thing is kind of dangerous because we re not the government. We May not understand the whole situation the behind the scenes picture. There May be More to this than we see on the news. The president May be dealing with things that Are going to happen next week that nobody knows about yet. A we in the entertainment business have to be careful about the statements we make politically because they May be wrong. And they May affect people More than we know. So to speak for an entire country a a done to give us a reason to kick your butt a is a bit of an attitude. I thought we were a gentler Kinder nation than being a Bunch of scruffy violent Rabbitts a american boy a from his 15th album a Jersey boy a is less antagonistic than Williams song. In it the Brooklyn born new Jersey bred Rabbitt affirms his patriotic Pride via such tried and True country images As american made pickup trucks. Rabbitt says that he wrote and recorded the song Long before the iraqi invasion of Kuwait adding that his concern for this country is constant and his love for it is sincere. Quot we need a Little More Pride in America a he says. A there Are too Many Little splinter groups breaking Down the fabric of a great nation. A we need to get our education Back on line get our biases out of the Way and try to make it a less violent nation a he suggests. Rabbitt who has had 26 no. 1 records blames the music Industry in part for society a moral decay. A heavy Metal reveres violence and rap music is creating almost a reverse racism if you will a he says. A a we be got heavy violence and sex showering younger kids All the time. I think we re really pushing the envelope on a lot of named the american music awards Best pop male vocalist of 1981, Rabbitts Chart Topping hits the show can to go on Jimmy Williams wades around his stalled Carson and Barnes five ring circus bus Friday in Houston a. A downpour a 5 inches of rain overnight a turned a City lot into a Pond stranding Many circus vehicles including tractor trailers carrying about 20 elephants and other animals. The show had to be postponed. Have spanned More than 20 years beginning with i970�?Ts a Kentucky rain which Elvis Presley recorded continuing with a a driving my life away and a i love a Rainy night a decade ago and including this years a on second the son of immigrants from Ireland Rabbitt dropped out of High school drove a truck and worked at a mental Hospital before finding Success As a songwriter in Nashville tenn., in 1968. Today he lives with his wife and two children on a 43-acre farm in for trouble three California physicians have been charged by the state with a unprofessional conduct for repeatedly prescribing various drugs for actress Elizabeth Taylor a in amounts that exceed a legitimate medical the three Are or. Michael Gottlieb co discoverer of the first cases of aids or. William Skinner head of the chemical dependency Center in Santa Monica where Taylor has been treated and or. Michael Roth an aids specialist. The prescriptions Span a 10-year period. Roth and Gottlieb were partners at the time when the Over medication was administered said the California attorney general a office. Fridays announcement did not name Taylor and Legal papers used Only the initials but Earl r. Plowman a Deputy attorney general said that a the name is pretty much in the Public Domain a in referring to press accounts that Taylor was the patient in question. The administrative charges could result in disciplinary action As severe As revoking the three doctors licenses to practice. Gottliebe a lawyer Harland Braun said his client has done nothing wrong. A the doctors were independently treating her for chronic Back pain. She needs drugs to relieve pain a he said. In a statement Friday Skinner said a i used Good professional judgment in treating a Complex set of estate Andrei d. Sakharov the human rights campaigner and Nobel peace prize Winner who died in Moscow last december at the age of 68, left a new York estate valued at $ 50,000 to $ 100,000. Sakharov a will was filed for probate Friday in surrogates court new York. Lawyer Scott Horton told the court that Sakharov a assets in this country included literary and scientific collections of books and papers and a publishing contract with a a major new York publishing company that he did not name. Sakharov also left extensive holdings in Switzerland and the soviet Union Horton said. Under the terms of Sakharov a will the estates assets will be added to an existing Trust fund for his widow Yelena g. Bonner and other relatives. Dear Abby i am still steamed about something that happened in our City a few months ago. A 13-year-old kid stole a car and while the police were chasing him slowed into another vehicle killing three innocent people. This a child Quot was going 80 Miles an hour after Midnight. His name was not released because evidently there a some kind of Law that prevents newspapers from publishing the names of juveniles who commit such crimes. Why they deserve to be protected that Way is beyond me. It later came out that this 13-year-old a a child had a record of eight felony charges including three Auto thefts in the last two years. Abby you have More clout than All the senators and representatives put together so please print this and demand some reforms. A outraged in Tulsa dear outraged i too am outraged. I agree a Young person with this dear Abby kind of record should not be protected by a cloak of privacy. Perhaps the Law should provide privacy for a juveniles first offence. But after that a a children who Are big enough to commit adult crimes should be made to face the music publicly the same As adults. Dear Abby i have worked in an office for the last 14 years and a great Deal of my time has been spent answering phones and taking messages. My biggest complaint is this when people Call and ask to talk to the Boss and i Tell them that he son the phone or tied up in a meeting they always ask a do you know when hell be free a when i say a a in a not sure. May i take a message Quot i am almost invariably asked a How Long do you think hell be a Abby How do i know it can be anywhere from 30 seconds to three hours a or longer. Please Tell your readers never to ask that stupid question a How Long do you think he will be a a no mind Reader dear no mind Reader you unwittingly provided this excellent answer to that a a stupid question a it can be anywhere from 30 seconds to three hours a or dear Abby the letter about the woman who left her dentures in the lingerie department of a store in Hoquiam wash., reminded me of this incident Many years ago i attended a dental convention in Las vegas. It was around Midnight and i was doing a Little Light gambling at the craps table in one of the big hotels. The Stickman passed the Dice to the next shooter who happened to be my associates wife. As she received the Dice she sneezed a and her upper denture flew out of her Mouth and landed on the craps table. The Quick thinking Stickman immediately removed his upper denture placed it next to the shooters denture on the table and said a shoot Honey a you re covered a everyone howled with laughter a even the losers. A Larry Bernard Portland Ore. Dear Larry thanks for a wonderful Day brightener. Universal press Syndicate
