European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 11,1993 . The stars and stripes b Page 7nixon at 80 takes one year at a time his secret to Woodll Lake no. A on his 80th birthday saturday Richard Nixon confided that this was a Day he had been dreading except when he considered the alternative. Quot the secret to a Long life Quot he said in the manner of every old timer is a never look Hack look Forward. You be got to have something to live for otherwise you cease to live. And who wants to live when you have nothing to live for a except for his walk which has slowed the former president looks Well and says he feels terrific nearly two decades after the watergate scandal forced his resignation in 1974. His regimen unvarying is to walk three Miles a Day a two Miles before Daybreak and a mile at night he watches his Waistline a Calls his diet austere a and remains trim. Quot when you be reached this advanced age its natural to say a what does anybody do after 80?�?T As far As in a con com cd in a going to continue to be Active in my own Way. As Long As in a mentally competent to do it. You be got to watch yourself very carefully a Nixon told the associated press. Nixon works on his writing at Home a seven of his nine books have been Best Sellers a and spends time at his office two minutes from his condominium in Park Ridge. The office comfortable but spartan by White House standards contains a Small bust of Churchill a Winter scene painted by Dwight Eisenhower and a needlepoint of his former dog. King Tima hoc standing in a Pond on the South Lawn of the. White House. The work was done by daughter Julie. Away from work he reads watches sports on television and one prime time program Mulder she wrote a one thing i never watch is talk shows Nixon said. He and wife Pat spent his birthday As they do All major occasions with family a David and Julie Eisenhower and their three children up , and Tricia and de Cox and their son from new York City. The highlight of the Day was a birthday play written produced and acted by the grandchildren. Quot Ftp a really True a Nixon told a who overheard him telling president Rush he dreaded turning 80. Quot in be dreaded this Day. Quot its not a Day to celebrate it s probably a Day we Are going to commiserate about a he said. Quot when you get to that age you generally think that there a nothing More to do that there a really nothing More to live for. My advice to people on such a Day comes from Satchel Paige probably the greatest baseball player in history. 1 a the said the secret of his longevity was a never look Back somebody May be gaining on  my View is a never look Back always look to the future because if you look to the future you May live to enjoy it. Look Back and you  Nixon turned Down a number of potential parties one from the a february group which is composed mostly of the staff he had in his 5�?Ta years in the White House. Nixon was in Russia twice in the inst two years and he plans More foreign travel this year. A to the East and to the West a he says without being specific. As for a 10th Book he does no to Rule it out but Hasni to scheduled one either. A i done to plan More than a year ahead now a he said. Train travel Back on Washington a after running downhill for nearly half a Century trains arc being rediscovered in Many countries As transportation Friendly to the pocketbook and the environment according to a study released saturday. Quot after decades of congestion Steep Oil Bills and smog Many governments Are realizing it was a mistake to abandon railways for highways a the world watch Institute said in its Safe of the world yearbook. A governments Are willing to take a fresh look at rail a said world watch president Lester r. Brown. Quot the Auto has not delivered on its Promise. Congestion is everywhere a and  next to Riding an electric train Quot the Only Way a person needing to get some where can create less pollution is by walking or biking a Institute analyst Marcia Lowe wrote in rediscovering rail. The no polluting trains described in the report Bear Little resemblance to the puffing Coal burners and clattering rickety trolleys sidetracked decades ago for autos and planes. Rather they arc aerodynamic Bullet like electric trains gliding along Concrete mounted rails in France Germany and Japan up to 200 Mph High tech Urban and suburban metro systems and a sleek new generation of Light rail trains that navigate through streets alleys and malls with minimum Clang or Clatter. Lowe restated the argument that the United states and a few other governments heavily subsidize air and Road transport while unfairly expecting trains to be virtually self supporting. Public transit rarely pays its Way at the far Box Quot but having rail As an alternative to driving represents an incalculable societal gain avoiding the High costs of pol a Swiss manufactured High Speed train capable or travelling at 150 Mph nears the Princeton Junction n.j., train station during an Amtrak test run from Philadelphia to new Brunswick n.j., and Back saturday. Lution traffic congestion Oil dependence and Road accidents a Lowe said. During the 1980s, 50 Large cities around the Globe including 10 in the United states launched suburban commuter rail projects mostly upgrading and electrifying existing regional lines. High Speed rail lines Are being planned or built Between major cities in several countries including Australia Brazil China Germany Spain and the United states and through the French British Tunnel under the English Channel. The United states has 18 of the world s estimated 326 Light rail and Tramway systems with six More in planning or construction Lowe said. The report cites some ironies in the rebirth of rail a unlike the West the former soviet Union and Eastern Europe kept nearly All of their original railway networks but fail to take full advantage of them. They re experiencing Quot a distinct clamor toward car ownership the icon of Success in the  a the United states which pioneered railroads in the 19th Century and still leads the world in trackage lags in electrification and Speed. But it has pulled ahead of Japan and much of Western Europe in percentage of freight hauled by rail compared to Road and waterway. A Germany and Japan each invested More than $1 billion the past 20 years researching super fast trains operating on magnetic levitation technology that was invented but never developed in the United states,. Air guard rushes Haemophilia a to Sweden Albany . U1t a an upstate new York Man was in stable condition in a swedish Hospital sunday awaiting life saving treatment after being rushed across the Atlantic by the new York air National guard. Haemophilia a Kevin Bates 21, badly needs abdominal Sulg cry but would bleed to death during the operation without treatment that is unavailable in the United states. Bates began bleeding internally on new years Day. On Friday his doctor at Albany medical Center Edwin tall determined that the Only place Bates could be saved was at the Malmo Genera Hospital in Sweden said Albany medical Center spokesman Elmer Streeter. But no commercial flight would be available to transport Bates to Sweden until this week and time was Short Streeter said. A the severity of the Case did no to leave a lot of time so it was important to get him Over there quickly a Streeter said. An Appeal to a state legislator assemblyman John Mceneny of Albany set off a flurry of activity among members of Congress the military and diplomatic officials in the United states and Sweden. Streeter said the efforts led by . Rep. Michael u. Mcnulty d-., ended with Bates and the medical equipment on which he depends being loaded on a c-130 Hercules transport plane at the Stratton air National guard base near Albany on saturday. Officials slashed red tape. They even got the state department to arrange clearance for Bates Mother Carol Bates to make the trip even though she did not have a passport. A really any obstacle that came along they found a Way to get around it or go right through it a Streeter said. Guard members at Stratton were scheduled for a training Mission to Charlotte , Over the weekend but bad weather in North Carolina forced the Mission to be scrubbed. That left the guard members in need of a Mission. Bates Case was tailor made a this was an excellent training Mission a Streeter said