European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 17, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9desktop cleaner brings order to chaos Chicago up a that pile of stuff on your desk looking More intimidating every Day just wait until monday a National Clear off your desk Day. Monica Thompson 25, who runs chaos to order will even lend a hand if you done to feel up to the task. A a lot of people need coaching and guidance and All a Thompson said. A when i get there i give them permission to throw things  Thomspon said she has found some amazing things on desks. A we were going through a woman a office a she said. A it was very very very cluttered. There were things she Hadnot looked at for a Long time. I found a Baggie with something that looked like a Shell in it. It was a muffin. The muffin had folded and rotted. It was so old the Mold had died so it was just a  Thompson Calls her desk cleaning technique a Macro sorting a and she charges $40 an hour with a two hour minimum. A you take everything on your desk and put it on one big pile and voila its organized a she said. A no in a just kidding. You put everything in one pile and then you go through it and each item goes into one of three categories. A the first pile is the most popular. That a the trash can pile. The second is the things you need to take action on a things you need to do people you need to Call meetings you need to attend. The third pile is the things you need on hand. A if you have a Good filing system you can file away the third pile. The second pile should be the Only thing left on your desk. Take the pile and use it to make a project list. That lets you get rid of All those Little tattered up pieces of paper. A everything then can be thrown away or filed. You re left with one Nice clean piece of paper on your desk. As you Complete each project you Cross it out. It also keeps you from procrastinating. If you be done everything else and that one person you done to want to Call Back is left you la make that Call just so you can Cross it off and throw the paper away. It gives you a real feeling of  Thompson said most of those who have Messy desks Are a visual people who think they can to get anything done unless they can Sec everything they need. Quot we get them to change and develop a filing system that is very current a Thompson said. A if its not something you re currently working on it should not be on your desk. If its Noj something that you use frequently it should be in  Thompson is a member of the National association of professional organizers which is based in Northbrook. The 7-year-old association has about 500 members  facing ills courageously Yeltsin tells leaders a the Duchess of York second from left and Steve Wyatt fourth from left attended a Polo match in Houston last year. Duchess of York ignoring Flap Over alleged vacation photos London apr a smiling Duchess of York flew to the United states on thursday ignoring a controversy Over photos allegedly showing her on vacation with texan Steve Wyatt. Accompanied by her father Polo Trainer Ronald Ferguson she boarded a flight for Miami but there was Little Chance she would escape the Brouhaha. About 20 British reporters and photographers also boarded the aircraft. The Duchess who rarely does anything right in the eyes of Britain a tabloids is heading to Palm Beach where she will attend a Polo tournament to raise Money for the motor neurons disease association of which she is Patron. During her three Day stay she will also visit a local Hospital and children Scenter. The daily mail broke the Story wednesday reporting that More than 120 photographs taken during a Mediterranean Holiday in 1990, were found in a London apartment vacated by Wyatt and shown to the paper before being turned Over to police. None of the British papers published the pictures but the mail said one shot showed the 32-year-old Duchess and Wyatt wearing shorts and sunglasses dangling from their necks with his left Arm around her shoulders and her right Arm behind his Back. The mail said some pictures showed other people including the Duchess a daughter Princess Beatrice in the group. Buckingham Palace said the pictures had been returned to the Duchess the daughter in Law of Queen Elizabeth ii and the wife of Prince Andrew the Duke of York and a Royal Navy officer. Scotland Yard said there would be no further police investigation. Nigel Dempster the daily mails gossip columnist said the Duchess became Good friends with Wyatt in 1990 after becoming a bored lonely a and deeply depressed while pregnant with her second child. He said this was partly the result of her husbands Long absences because of his military service. Wyatt was described in two papers As a a Cross Between Bobby Ewing and the incredible  he is the son of Texas socialite Lynn Wyatt and adopted son of Houston Oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt. While Buckingham Palace had nothing to say thursday the tabloids seemed to know what everyone was thinking. The mails front Page headline thursday said a the Palace is  rival today a headline said a dangerous liaisons a and the Sun headlined a a Andy a fury at Fergien a  Ross Benson gossip columnist for the daily express told Independent television news that the Duchess was the victim of the a Black sheep syndrome a in which one member of the royals is selected by the tabloids to be pilloried. He said Princess Diana had previously been a victim. A the press just want to hate her a Ingrid Seward editor of majesty Magazine told sky television. A a it a innocent a and in a in a position to know. The Only thing she can do is just try and ignore it and keep As Low a profile As  Moscow apr president Boris n. Yeltsin sternly defended his free Market Reform program thursday against a rising tide of criticism telling follow russians that they Are on a painful Road to a civilized world. A the people Are taking it very courageously gritting their Teeth a he said in his first address to lawmakers since prices were raised Jan. 2 As a first step toward establishing a Market based Economy. But he warned that the program is vulnerable to sabotage by hard liners and others who stand to lose from the move toward a Market Economy. A the Reform Hasni to yet become irreversible and its not difficult to disrupt it a he said in a 22-minute nationally televised speech to the russian legislature. Yeltsin has just returned from a tour of the nation to defend his reforms. Everywhere he went he got an earful from shoppers angry Over soaring prices. The russian president told lawmakers that his program also had met a the resistance of mafia Type structures striving to retain their position of dominance in the distribution Field open sabotage and ideological opposition from the former Nomen Latura. Yeltsin said some stores were gouging Consumers by driving up profit rates 200 percent to 300 percent. A wave of grumbling swept the parliament chamber. On his tour Yeltsin proposed the stores become a Independent Legal entities in order to break free of this system and buy directly from producers. He also intends to privatize the manufacturing and service industries and announced in St. Petersburg on wednesday that he will privatize most state owned Farmland by March 1. A i disagree with the assertion that this is just an Experiment Yeltsin said. A everybody is experiencing hardships today. Ordinary russians Are experiencing them harder than anyone. A but people have not lost Hope that ave Mything will change for the better. Everyone understands that it is necessary to stick it out to sacrifice certain  surveys Canada in test of open skies Lahr Germany a Hungary was scheduled to perform an a open skies flight thursday afternoon Over Canada testing a multinational agreement being negotiated in Vienna. The proposed a open skies agreement is a descendant of a plan the Eisenhower administration first advanced in the 1950s. It would allow each signatory state to verify arms control commitments of other signatory states through Aerial surveillance. The hungarian flight was to originate in Ottawa Canadas capital and was to take place Over military installations and Industrial Sites Between there and Oshawa Ontario a major motor vehicle manufacturing City. The flight followed a similar flight Canada conducted in a cc-130 Hercules Over Hungary in 1990