European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday May 4,1992 faces n place accordion program sounds a sour note from wire reports the squeeze is being put on an accordion repair program. Its not that there a a shortage of accordions being broken whether accidentally or deliberately. The problem is that Only three students have signed up for the nine month program next year at red Wing technical College in Minnesota. As a result the president of the College 45 Miles Southeast of Minneapolis has recommended dropping the program. Music lovers who have suffered through inept squeeze Box renditions of lady of Spain might wonder Why anyone would want to fix a broken accordion. A nobody blames the piano for a bad Honky Tonk pianist or criticizes the violin because there Are bad fiddlers a said red Wing instructor Heimi Harrington a graduate of an accordion repair program in crossing in Germany. The Minnesota school with a total enrolment of about 600 students also offers instruction in repairs of brass woodwind and electronic instruments and restoration of violins and guitars. Harrington started the accordion program last fall and currently has seven students this year. For student Daryl Missal a retired Telephone Engineer from san Francisco fixing the Complex instruments is simply a Nobby he wants to master. A a in a just curious a he said. A a lot of people go on african safaris. I came to Minnesota for the  wins by default Oprah Winfrey and companion sted Man Graham won a defamation lawsuit by default when a supermarket tabloid failed to respond. A Federal judge entered a judgment Friday against news extra after Winfrey and Graham accused the Montreal based tabloid of publishing a false and defamatory Story claiming Graham had an affair with a male Cousin. No lawyer for the tabloid appeared at the hearing. Winfrey and Graham Are seeking $300 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Their attorney Dan Webb said the assets of the tabloid or its owners could be seized to pay any  takes it All Boxer George Foreman who named his four sons George and trained on an All you can eat diet was honoured saturday by the Harvard Lampoon for his lighthearted approach to boxing and life. Foreman told about 300 people outside the Harvard University Magazine a offices in Cambridge mass., that he would run for president a with slogans of a a Barbecue every weekend and a a whole banana in every banana  the Lampoon named Foreman its Man of the year for making a successful comeback in boxing at age 44 and for doing it on a diet that put his weight around the 260-Pound Mark. The Magazine entered Foreman who lost a heavyweight title fight to evander Holyfield on april 13, 1991, in three contests and he won them All a hand slapping game a slap boxing bout and a doughnut eating showdown. A a he a one of the nicest fighters in be Ever met. He a very Down to Earth a said Floyd Williams a Harvard  big in ozarks Willie Nelson Andy Williams Boxcar Willie and Mickey Gilley opened their seasons to nearly full houses in a country music Mecca in the ozarks. The Las vegas style strip in Branson a Southern Missouri town dubbed the Nashville of the ozarks was hopping Friday. Louise Mandrell Glen Campbell and Randy Travis Drew a sellout at the grand Palace a new 4,000-seat Hall. Ray Stevens Jim Stafford and Shoji Tabuchi were among returning Branson headliners and also played to nearly full houses. Crews raced the clock All week to finish Williams Moon River theatre. Com Poser Henry Mancini accompanied Wil a night for Harlem jazz Singer Ilia Fitzgerald 74, belts oat a song at her one night Only performance at new York s radio Chy Musk Hall on saturday the show was in part a Benefit for the now York landmarks conservancy. Proceeds go to the restoration of storrow a group of 28 Row houses in Harlem. Liams. Construction workers missed the deadline for a Friday opening at Cash country Johnny Cash a new theater. Cash will begin his season in a few weeks promoters said. Offence is necessary John Frohnmayer former director of the National endowment for the arts said a of Fensel in Art is a positive. A in my View offence is necessary a Frohnmayer said during a lecture at the University of new Mexico in Albuquerque. Without offence a we done to have an Index of whether the first amendment is working a he said. In february president Bush asked for Frohnmayer a resignation. Anne Imelda radice former chief of the creative arts division of the . Information Agency took his place Friday. Frohnmayer head of the endowment for three years urged citizens to lobby their elected officials to save the Agency. A you can Tell them How much riskier it would be to vote against the endowment than to vote for it a he said. 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