European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 26, 1991the stars and stripes Page 13 Anna Quindle commentary the most tiresome thing about the heat is that you have to listen to peo sle Tell stories about it All of which have Een told before the Story about How you  even get a spot on the Beach the Story about How the air conditioning broke Down the stories about blowing fans Over blocks of ice in Luncheonette. But there is always something new under the Sun and this summer its global warming. People Are talking about the weather As an act of Man not of god. Just 10 years ago the Ozone layer was largely the Purview of the Tofu and birkenstock crowd. Now scientists who study this stuff say that As sure As the beaches will fill with bodies on the first 100-degree Day their phones will begin ringing with questions about the slow cooking of planet Earth. Weather a always been a useful Symbol maybe feeling guilty about the fact that 1990 was the warmest year on record in the Northeast has a lot to do with All the other diminished expectations we re passing along to our children. The old upward curve a bricklayer to cop to lawyer to judge in four generations a seems to be heading Down for our children As steeply As the trajectory of a roller coaster. Downward mobility is the hip term for what we see in their futures. No House no sayings a and now no autumn. We can picture them huddled around the air conditioner 50 years from now saying a ooh mom not that old Story about How you had seasons when you were Young a but that old Story already feels True. Winters without Snow. Springs that last 24 hours. Long hot Summers. In Short Southern California for All. It makes me think of times driving with my father when he would wave an Arm out the car window and say a i remember when All this was  you a look out and think a there he goes Tom Raum trend puts americans in a sweat  it makes me think of fishing with my father in Delaware Bay when i was 5, of How we sat for hours pulling flounder after flounder into the boat their Pale undersides seeing the Sun for the first time. Now the Bounder Are fewer and farther Between in Many of those fishing spots. The alaskan Snow melted two weeks earlier in the 1980s than in the 1940s. Put an icicle in the Freezer this january to give your children something to remember you by. This generation of children takes for granted heart transplants air travel Recy cling takeout food air conditioned cars and personal computers. Every time i look at one of their upper arms i can to help noticing that they have no Small round scar from smallpox inoculation the Tattoo of those of us born before the 1970s. In an Effort not to seem like hopeless nostalgic we try not to dwell too much on a time when the air Wasny to Earth toned. We still buy the things manufactured with chemicals that foul the air still talk nervously of global warming and then jump into the car to go to the Beach leaving our own Little remembrance of Carbon dioxide passed. It gives new meaning to the old line about everybody talking about the weather but nobody doing anything about it. Perhaps this is the beginning of some change the fact that so Many people seem worried that mild Winters and Long Summers Are environmental not accidental. Once we believed that Only god could make a heat wave now we think that maybe we took creation into our own hands and fashioned a monster a tent of gases that traps the warm air As surely As Glass plates do. The folks who argue about whether we re really getting warmer say the 1990s will Tell. They May also Tell whether we re planning to do anything about this. Otherwise someday our children will Settle Down with the Gran kids to Tell them yet again the old Story about the flexible flyer about Days so cold that the rain would actually freeze and coat the ground with a Frozen White Blanket on which you could skim downhill. One of them will surely say a nah she a told us that one a million times. I still think she made it  c new York times Bush advisers oiling up Campaign machinery president Bush is expected to begin making decisions on his 1992 re election Effort during his upcoming monthlong vacation in coastal Maine. Bush is Likely to put his Seal of approval on a Campaign Structure that will see Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher As Overall chairman Republican and White House officials said this week. The officials speaking on condition of anonymity said the president also was expected to tap longtime associates Bob Teeter and Fred Malek to run the Day to Day operation of the Campaign. Teeter a Michigan political consultant was Bush a 1988 pollster and consultant. Malek a wealthy businessman managed the 1988 Republican National convention and the 1990 Houston economic Summit for Bush. Bush Stop advisers say that is the Campaign Hierarchy they re  to the president. A Only he Hasni to signed off in it yet and he a the Only one with a vote a one top adviser said. White House chief of staff John Sununu is Likely to Call Many of the shots in Bush a re election Effort at least initially. But it remained unclear whether the abrasive aide widely criticized for his extensive travel on government and corporate jets would remain at the White House or leave sometime in Early 1992 to join the Campaign. So far while much initial planning has swirled around him Bush himself has begged off engaging in serious re election strategy discussions with his top advisers the White House and gop sources said. In fact he s deliberately avoided the subject said the officials a avoided it As perhaps Only a War winning president with a Stellar approval rating can afford to do. But the officials said that once Bush gets next weeks superpower Summit in Moscow behind him and can relax at his beloved Oceanside Home in Kennebunkport Maine they expect his thoughts to turn naturally to Al a a election politics. The president May have inadvertently shown that his mind is already beginning to wander in that direction. Or at least the glint is in his Eye. Last sunday in Turkey he was asked at a joint news conference with turkish president Turgut Ozal whether he read polls. Bush has always insisted that polls mean nothing to him. But he cheerfully told reporters a my wings would drop off if i told an untruth. So put it this Way from time to time i look at  As Well he should for they be shown what Norman Ornstein a political analyst at the conservative american Enterprise Institute Calls Bush so incredible political  a problems that might have put him on the defensive like the recession proved to be nothing serious a Ornstein said. Last fall Bush was taking major political heat in budget Battles with Congress and was even shunned by some Republican candidates for abandoning his a no new taxes stand. His poll ratings drooped to just Over 50 percent not a Good level for an incumbent who expects to get reelected. Then everything changed. The air and ground War against Iraq erupted Kuwait was liberated and Bush a approval ratings soared to the 90s. Since then they be inched Down into the mid-70s, but they seem to have stabilized to the Point where Bush a re election seems to be shaping up As a gop cakewalk a All things being equal. But in politics All things Are never equal. And the presidents top political advisers done to want to wind up victims of complacency. One adviser said Bush would follow the a Reagan Mold a announcing his re election decision after the state of the Union next january but not doing any real campaigning until the summer. But keeping the president from hitting the Trail before then May require an exercise in restraint or an act of Congress cutting off his air Force one allowance. Bush a former Republican National committee chairman is a tireless campaigner. Last year he racked up More Miles campaigning for Republican candidates in off year elections than any president before him. One gop adviser close to the president said the goal would be to have a Basic re election Structure in place at least on paper by september. That would facilitate getting a fund raising operation set to go Early on. But the adviser said the organization could be delayed to As late As november without any real Adverse Impact. Mosbacher of course would have to resign from his Commerce Post to assume the duties of running the Campaign a just As James a. Baker Iii quit As Reagan a Treasury Secretary to become chairman of Bush a 1988 Campaign. Others expected to play key roles in Bush a reelection Effort include a Craig Fuller a Washington Public relations executive who was Bush a vice presidential chief of staff to oversee the 1992 gop convention in Houston. A Roger Ailes Bush a 1988 Media guru and ongoing consultant for the presidents major Media performances to play the same role in the 1992 Campaign. A gop Campaign veterans Charlie Black James Lake Rich Bond and Paul Manafort. C the associated press