European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes faces no places saturday july 24,1993lesbian colonel s Story to be fold in to movie from wire reports. Barbra Streisand and Glenn close Are teaming up to produce a to movie about a decorated army colonel thrown out of the Washington National guard after disclosing she is a lesbian. Close will portray Margarthe Kammermeyer in the film scheduled to be broadcast in the fall of 1994, Abc said wednesday in los Angeles. A this is a Story that throws Light on one of the most important issues of our time Streisand said in a statement. Kammermeyer 51, was a 26-year Veteran and chief nursing officer for the guard at Camp Murray near Tacoma when she was forced out of the service in 1992, her Bronze Star from Vietnam notwithstanding. She told the Seattle Post intelligencer on wednesday from her Home in Des Moines a Tacoma suburb that her Story belonged on film because a hopefully this will help break the stigma that people seem so bound to maintain that makes us so frightening to Kammermeyer now a nurse at a veterans administration Hospital in Tacoma is suing the government in an attempt to overturn the military s ban on Gays and win reinstatement in the Small problem. A contestant miss Texas Usa pageant in Austin because the Bikini Given heir was too Itsy Bitsy. A i would not Wear it. Maybe in my Back Yard but not anywhere in Public Quot said 22-year-old Shawna Andes of Austin miss Central Texas. The Beauty contest whose Winner advances to the miss Usa pageant in february switched to two piece swimsuits this year because the National pageant began requiring them. The miss Texas Usa pageant will be held tuesday. The Texas pageant s organizers described the swimsuit As producer Al Clark said he even Call it a Bikini. Clark said 117 other girls wore them and did not complain. ,. Lyle Loving married life Lyle Lovetts honeymoon May be Over but he a still in love. A a i just knew getting married was the right thing to do and i be happier a the Singer said when asked about his Surprise wedding last month to pretty woman Star Julia Roberts. A spokesman for Roberts has said the couple met during filming of the 1992 movie the player. But Lovett told the los Angeles times on tuesday that the couple met Only a few weeks before their quickly arranged june 27 wedding. Was he surprised by All the attention to his nuptials a i guess i was a Little Quot Lovett said a but the getting a the work Tim a Margarethe Kammermeyer who was Dos charged by the Washington National guard for being a lesbian Hopes a to movie Quot will help break the stigma that people seem so bound to maintain that makes us so frightening to them Quot married part of it possibly have been better. A meeting her is unlike anything that had happened to me before. She a so wonderful. It was one or those immediate things that you hear Honor Thatcher former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher one of the last cold warriors accepted an honorary degree in Moscow on thursday As the soviet Leader who presided Over an empires end beamed proudly in the audience. Communism was one of Mankind so greatest tyrannies a Thatcher said in a speech at Mendeleyev chemical University but she said Russia will always be one of the worlds great Powers. I can to get no. A athe University conferred an honorary doctorate of science on Thatcher a former chemist and Britain a prime minister from 1979 until 1990, a year before the soviet collapse. \ former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev looking tanned and fit and his wife Raisa were among the guests of Honor. Thatcher called the end of the cold War a the most important political events of her life and something inextricably linked with Gorbachev. Although Thatcher was a staunch anti communist and a firm advocate of the nuclear deterrent she hit it off with Gorbachev from the outset. Thatcher Britain a first woman prime minister and the first to win three consecutive general elections in this Century is now a Baroness and a member of the House of lords. Gorbachev who stepped Down in december 1991 As the soviet Union dissolved makes frequent speaking Tours and has set up a foundation in aids Relief Effort Clint Black said he would donate Money generated by his aug. 27 concert in Des Moines Iowa to help midwestern flood Relief. In a news conference thursday the country Singer also announced the launching of operation heartland. The Relief Effort is to be operated by the International disaster Usa. Relief and development Agency operation do it yourself pageant contestants at the miss America pageant in Atlantic City no of will have to style their own hair and apply their own makeup this year in a bid to do away with what the shows producer called the step Ford wives look. Its the first time in the pageants 73-year history that the Beauty Queens will have to do their own primping. For years they brought along High priced stylists and makeup artists. A they All looked like step Ford wives. They ail had ii of Fella a lib a i f .4 Ai one of two hair styles and i thought none of these women would Ever walk out of their houses looking this a said Jeff Margolis producer of the sept. 18 Snow. In another break with tradition contestants in the evening Wear Competition will be free to Wear pants a or whatever else they might put on for an elegant night on the town a instead of the traditional floor length gown. Contestants said the changes reflect the modern woman. A in the past there was More of a Mold that they were looking to fill and now they re looking for a woman who can make her own Mold a said miss Michigan 23-year-old Stacey Heisler. 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