European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday May 17, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 11 opportunities limitless in u.s., Bush tells grads Dallas apr president Bush on saturday urged graduating students to be optimistic about the country a future in these Uncertain times saying the United states still offers a limitless opportunities a for the industrious. A for each of you America is the place where ambition Energy. And hard work Are still rewarded a he told the commencement exercises at Southern methodist University in the first of two scheduled weekend addresses. Giving a version of his Campaign speech Bush continued his recent diatribe against pessimism an approach he also used last year when contending the recession was not As bad As Many believed. A a in a a Little tired of the pessimism in this country a the president said reeling off statistics on manufacturing Trade jobs and technology that he said proved America is still the worlds top economic Power. Recalling his own Start As a Young Man in the Texas Oil business after world War ii Bush said a a today Samerica is still a rising nation. The country you re inheriting offers the same limitless opportunities that it held for Barbara and despite surveys showing the Job Market to be More Bleak for graduates than it has been in recent years Bush said that a a american a Best Days lie before drawing attention to what he likes to highlight As a Strong re election message Bush noted the fall of communism and the swerve toward democracy and capitalism. He said it is a ironic about the pessimism we re seeing today for it comes at a moment of Triumph that few countries in history have been privileged to he also mentioned the problems in the inner cities and acknowledged a a we be got difficulties he said the answers lie in his previously stated proposals on Reform in welfare education health care housing and the Legal system. He Drew applause when he said that in Washington a it is High time to get our own House in Bush follows in the footsteps of his Likely Campaign rival Texas billionaire Ross Perot who spoke at last years sum commencement. Perot told graduates that a those folks in Washington be Ong to you and a democracy must come from us a Perot said then. A if something needs to be cleaned up we have All got to do the dirty Perot although not yet an official candidate has found Strong support in Bush a adopted Home state and could Force the president to work harder to capture Texas in november that expected. A Texas poll last month showed Perot leading both Bush and democratic front runner Bill Clinton in a three Way race with Perot at 35 percent Bush at 30 percent and Clinton with 20 percent. Today Bush is to deliver the commencement address at the University of notre Dame in South Bend searching for aphrodisiac for Rhino couple Norfolk a. Apr not even a Little Competition could produce Rhino love at the Virginia zoological Park. Rufus and Jessie Are endangered White rhinoceroses. They have lived together for 17 years but they re just not enamoured with each other. Banking on the theory that a male Rhinoceros needs a stimulus other than a female to Start mating the zoo on thursday placed a life size photograph of Rufus the male outside the Cage where he lives with Jessie. Officials hoped Rufus would Sec another male As Competition and react aggressively and mate said Joseph c. Daniel a biology professor at old Dominion University in Norfolk. After 45 minutes the 3-ton mammals noticed the new Guy. After giving them a tantalizing glimpse for two minutes Daniel covered the photo which is 10 feet Long and 5.5 feet High. Rufus and Jessie did no to Budge or Stop staring. The curtain was lifted again and the rhinos continued staring. Finally the photo was packed away. Rufus and Jessie stayed and stared at the spot where it had been propped across a Moat. Not even a Bob of the fakes head using a hinge and a string could get the rhinos going. Eventually the two retreated and took an Early Nap. So much for the mating says comedy riot skit too real to be funny new York apr comedian Dave Thomas parody of reality based programming was a Little too real for Abc officials. They shelved monday nights special because it includes a los Angeles riot skit filmed four months before the Rodney g. King verdict. Inside America s totally unsolved lifestyles slated to air for an hour on stateside to will be held for a later Date said Janice Gretemeyer vice president for Public relations at Abc. A the show must go on a just not this monday a joked Thomas who received word of the decision thursday. Gretemeyer said the decision was made by the network and Thomas but the comedian said it was abcs Call. A i said a holy smokes. Is this something to discuss or is it a done Deal a they said a done 1 said a thanks for calling a because once they be made up their mind an actor slash producer cannot change it a said Thomas. The skit in question filmed in january involves a riot by journalists fighting to cover the same Story in los Angeles. Thomas said he did no to think viewers would make the connection with the real riots that erupted after the King verdict. A i done to know. Its a subjective Call a said Thomas an alumnus of the comedy show second City to. Gretemeyer said the special contains a certain comedy material which in Light of recent events in los Angeles is inappropriate at this sentenced in benefits fraud Indianapolis up an 79-year-old woman has been sentenced to a year of Home confinement after she pleaded guilty to illegally receiving social Security retirement benefits by using fraudulent names Over a 34-year period. On Friday judge s. Hugh Dillin accepted a plea bargain and ordered Mary Molly Thomp Kins confined to her Home for 12 months. Dillin could have ordered a prison term of 12 months to 18 months. In All Thompkins admitted to defrauding the social Security administration her former employer of $190,000. In her confinement plan she has permission to leave Only to receive medical treatment to attend Church and to assist her aging husband in grocery shopping. Thompkins also was ordered to repay the Money and forfeit All future retirement benefits amounting to More than $1,000 per gets More death sentences Ocala Fla. Apr a prostitute who admitted killing seven Middle aged men who picked her up hitchhiking on Florida highways was sentenced to death Friday for three More of the slayings. A thank you. Ill go to heaven now and you All will rot in hell a Aileen Wuornos said a Quot Sawaya handed Down the sentences. Yoi \ Wuornos 36, said earlier that she wants to be executed As soon As possible. Last january she also was sentenced to death Tor another of the killings. Charges Are pending in two other cases. She has not been charged in one slaying she has admitted. Wuornos said the men picked her up in 1989 and 1990, and she killed them after they became abusive. Wuornos read an hour Long statement Friday. She complained that the treatment she received was a sending society a message that a woman who defends herself is Likely to end up on death Row. They re saying that male dominance is of and woe be to the woman who takes action against a violent fridays sentencing were for the killings of Dick Humphreys Troy Burress and David Spears in the summer of 1990. Wuornos was sentenced in january for the killing of Richard Mallory. Convicted serial killer and prostitute Aileen Wuornos displays her anger during her sentencing in Florida. Children go to . To ask adults for cleaner world United nations a about 1,000 boys and girls from around the world gathered at . Headquarters in a Ilea to adults to clean up the Environ nent. With songs slides and a video presen action in the general Assembly Hall the youngsters also pledged to save the mirth. In speeches priday several out ined their own efforts to improve the environment. Quot most of our mothers and lathers grew up worrying that a bomb would destroy the world in one big bang a said Young Singer actress love Hewitt of Waco Texas. A your reality is that we done to have to wait for the bomb. The destruction has already Christian Miller a seventh grader from Palm Beach Fla., described How he saved thousands of Newborn sea turtles by protecting their nests and helping them make their first Short but dangerous journey from the Beach to the sea. Chowdury answer Husain a first year medical student from Bangladesh told the Young assemblage How be organized pm volunteers and three staff members to operate the Safe drinking water project. It has educated 300,000 people about How to identify and control waterborne diseases. Young kuwaitis told How they helped clean up their Small nation where Oil Wells were set ablaze last year by departing iraqi troops in the persian Gulf War. Beth Hamilton 13, of Brisbane Australia worked to restore the habitats of koalas. She also tends injured animals then releases them into the wild. Kory Johnson 12, of Phoenix fought successfully alongside her Mother against a proposed toxic waste incinerator by organizing a Campaign writing to officials and staging protests. The theme of the global youth forum was a please help us save the work a
