European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 b the stars and Stripe baby Boomers grow up to be mainstream Washington a sometime in the last decade the last baby Boomer came of age. The generation whose music drug use and radicalism inspired the phrase a generation Gap found itself moving into the leadership positions vacated by their retiring parents. An associated press analysis of 1990 census data found that baby Boomers a those born Between 1946 and 1965 a now make up nearly one third of americans 248.7 million people. The youngest of them became adults in the 1980s and the oldest arc now Middle age. Laid out on a graph the baby Boom looks something like a pig moving through a Snake. Simply because of its size the baby Boom generation has a profound Impact on the nation at each stage of its life. One consequence of baby Boomers growing up is that the nation will be spared a big Drain on its re sources. The Boomers at last have Learned to do their jobs. A before they were takers. Now they re givers a said Martha Farnsworth Riche a sociologist with the population reference Bureau a Washington research group. A we should be entering a 10 to 20-year highly productive period for our economy.�?�. Politically the Boomers May have turned their Back on the radicalism that gave their elders such a fright in the late 1960s and Early �?T70s.neil Howe co author of the Book a generations a believes Boomers will add a moralistic tone to Public life because they came of age during a time of vivid social change highlighted by the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. But Riche said the generation May have tended toward conservatism All along. A the Woodstock Flower child and hippies people were a very Small minority a Riche said. A anybody that wants to reach these people As a group has to understand the Boomers entry into adulthood also Means businesses will have to scramble to keep up with aging tastes. A businesses for years have been focusing on Young adults a said Cheryl Russell author of �?o100 predictions for the baby a they think Young adults spend the most Money. They re wrong. The Middle aged spend the most lots of baby Boomers Are now having children of their own the number of kids under age 5 was 14 percent higher in 1990 than a decade earlier. And that also is having an Impact. A with so Many parents out there it will have an effect on about everything we do a Russell said. A i think that a Why the nation has become so conservative lately a anti drug anti Drunken driving. All these people Are concerned for the health and safety of their fenian enthusiasts to re enact 1866 of British in Canada set Buffalo . A in 1866, Irish american veterans of the civil War set off on a quixotic Mission a to win Ireland a Freedom by invading what was then the British Colony of Canada. The so called fenian invaders beat the British army but ended up in american jails. Ireland remained British for another 55 years. But their raid did help to accomplish Independence a for the wrong country Canada. A this week hundreds of fenian enthusiasts will Square off against the regiment the raiders Defeated in a re enactment marking the battlers 125th anniversary. A some of the letters we get Are funny a said Jane Davies director of the Ridgeway Battlefield museum in Ridgeway Ontario. Quot they say a Well take Canada again. Well do it right this a a 7 a 7\. 1 a the fenian movement took Root among Irish immigrants to the United states in the 1850s. When the civil War broke out in 1861, Many fenian saw it As a Chance to get military training for the eventual struggle for their Homeland said David Owen a local historian. After the War the fenian Drew up plans to seize Canada and hold it As a hostage offering to return it to Britain in. Exchange for Ireland a Freedom. One group was to launch a feint from Buffalo drawing the British army into Southern Ontario. The main column would then strike North from Malone and St. Albans vt., cutting the British off from Montreal and England. About 1,000 raiders from Buffalo crossed the Niagara River on the night of june 1, 1866, and met a British regiment at Ridgeway a tiny Village seven Miles West of the Border. Eight fenian and 10 British soldiers died before the defenders withdrew. Emboldened by their Success the fenian summoned thousands of reinforcements waiting in Buffalo. But a . Gunboat prevented them from crossing the River and the invaders were arrested for violating the . Neutrality act. The Quebec invasion then fizzled and the status quo was quickly restored. But the ease with which the raiders could defeat the British Garrison gave new impetus to Canadian confederation and Independence which occurred the following year Davies said a the pro confederation forces talked up How a Bunch of Drunken irishmen had come in and the american government had to Stop them a she said. A the British Stop them a the fenian attack Canada the plan an attack from Buffalo would draw the British army South into Ontario. Canada Ontario Toronto r St. Albans a Mam Force strike would then Cut off the British forces from Montreal. / Vlf Buffalo new York f what happened june 1, 1866 Panano. Quebec a / a v ,. Mon Trealer a a raiders Cross the 1 Niagara River and Ontario engage and defeat a British regime t at Toronto Ridgeway Ontario. . Gunboat prevents the fenian reinforcements in Buffalo from crossing the River into Canada. Malone to Alec Aas / it it. New in Yorks amps Wes Booher interest in the Buttle was revived recently by a group of civil War buffs in Buffalo. The re enactment will take place two weeks after the actual anniversary due to scheduling problems. It is to begin with the raising of. The fenian Flag at the Canadian customs House across the River from Buffalo on thursday. For the next two Days 221 americans from As far away As Biloxi miss., will take the Field against 76 members of the Queens own rifles the regiment that the fenian Defeated in the original Battle. The regiment is now a Canadian army Reserve unit based in . Pluto meets or. Plutonium for St time Albuquerque . A when two men who changed the world More than half a Century ago held their first meeting there was no mistaking them Glenn Seaborg co discoverer of plutonium 50 years ago was the one with the periodic table of elements on his tie. And Clyde Tombaugh who spotted the planet Pluto in 1930, was the one wearing the Pluto Seaborg watch a Pluto the cartoon dog. That is. A a Phis watch has no hands it has paws a Tombaugh joked. Seaborg 79, and Tombaugh 85, met monday at Sandia National laboratories after Seaborg gave a 50th anniversary speech about the discovery of plutonium and subsequent transuranic elements those with higher atomic numbers than uranium. Although the mood was Light and the jokes plentiful the two men were serious when they talked with reporters about their accomplishments. A plutonium plays such an important role in the affairs of Man a said Seaborg a Nobel prize winning chemist. The discovery of the heavy radioactive Man made element led to the creation of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Japan to bring an end to world War ii. It also made it possible for nuclear reactors to be used to produce electricity. Tombaugh the last person to discover a planet said the question people most often ask him is whether there a a 10th planet in our solar system. A i done to think the prospects Are very Good a he said. Quot there Are no More planets out Tombaugh who lives in Mesilla Park ., and is a professor emeritus at new Mexico stale University discovered the ninth planet while working at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Ariz. Seaborg a professor at the University of California Berkeley and an author joked about How he and his colleagues arrived at the and atomic Symbol for plutonium. He said the Symbol should be i not put but we just liked the Roll of the up they decided to it after the most recently discovered planet in the spirit of. Uranium and Neptunium two previous elements on the Chart named after uranus and Neptune. But the group first considered names such As extremism and Multi mum on the basis that the element they discovered must be the heaviest possible to synthesize he said. Quot can you imagine How foolish we would be looked a Quot he said. He has since co discovered nine More transuranic elements such As americium Berkelium californium einsteinium Fer mum and no helium. Soviet role by. Jane s. By the Washington Post Washington a the soviet Union has been Given another comedown this time by the esteemed group that produces Jane a military yearbooks and other periodicals. One of these was a monthly publication called Jane s soviet intelligence review. It is now simply Jane a intelligence review. The a whole shape of East West relations has changed dramatically a editor Henry Dodds explains in the june edition. A the question now is not just How your armed forces fight but where a
