European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Friday. July 29,1994doomed/ sex better futurists predict Cambridge mass. Apr in the future marriage will be obsolete. Sex will be enhanced by a a pleasure  Canada will be part of the United states. Arid 80 percent of the world will speak English. But before you dismiss these predictions from members of the world future society take note this group says it predicted the fall of communism a unified world Economy and the technology now known As virtual reality. A when we started doing this 20 years ago people called us the Lunatic fringe a said William halal a management professor at George Washington University in Washington  sits on the society a Board. A but its All come  the Bethesda  society claims 30,000 members. At least 800 futurists showed up for this weeks annual meeting. Many gathered monday around Barbara Marx Hubbard and Sidney Lanier who Call themselves a a cosmic couple and run seminars on the future in Greenbrae Calif. Marriage As we know it is doomed according to when we started doing this 20 years ago people called us the Lunatic fringe. But its All come True. A. A William halal a world future society Hubbard 69, and Lanier 64, who met four years ago when each was divorced. Because life spans Are getting longer and having children and joining property Are becoming less important than nurturing each other future couples will be a co creative instead of Quot procreative a Hubbard  the average Joe and. Jane Are no longer aver age. They re going through a trauma and what comes out will be much deeper than the nuclear family a says Hubbard. He is writing a Book with Lanier about cosmic coupling. Not All futurists agree on what the future has in store. Marv Cetron predicts that traditional marriage will become More popular. And divorces will decrease. A a there a aids there a herpes a Cetron said. A people will make commitments because they re afraid. A but  get married later and have fewer kids.�?�. A. Cetron is the president of forecasting International ltd., a consulting firm in Arlington a. It predicts changes in technology economics society and politics. And he has lots of predictions. Sex in the future says Cetron will be enhanced by a machine that will trick the brain into experiencing sensations ranging from orgasm to patriotism.-. A / a the feeling you get when you hear the Star spangled Banner that almost religious feeling a the machine can do that a he said. Cetron also says the recently signed North american free Trade agreement has Laid the groundwork for Canada to become part of the United states by 2010. A and by 2020, he says 80 percent of the worlds population will speak English. Fatal blast flames engulf a House in White Plains n.y., after a propane Ruck crashed Early wednesday and exploded. The Force of the blast hurled the Tanker off interstate 287, Over a Bank of Trees and into a House a Quarter mile away. The crash and resulting fire killed the Driver injured 23 residents and demolished several houses. Excia a Elf says he was shocked by reported killings of soviet spies new York a turncoat Cia officer Aldrich h. Ames says he was shocked when he heard the soviet Union May have executed soviet spies whose identities he divulged the new York times reported thursday. A had i known they were going to do that a Ames said in an interview from his Alexandria va., prison cell a i either would not have gone and sold them that information or i would have passed thebout one by  but Ames who operated As a Cia mole for nearly a decade said his main fear was that he would be caught by the United states As the one who exposed the country a Best spies. Ames a it was As if Neon lights and searchlights lit up All Over the Kremlin shone All the Way across the Atlantic Ocean saying a there is a penetration a a Ames told the newspaper. Ames 53, was arrested in february. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in the most damaging espionage Case in . History. For eight years starting in 1985, the soviets paid him $2.5 million for classified material. Ames said he believed that the 1980s scandal at the american embassy in Moscow a where buildings were found to be riddled with bugs and a . Marine Security guard was convicted of working with the soviets a was in part a Kab diversion to throw the Cia off his Trail. The Cia is still assessing the damage beyond the immediate harm a the reported execution of about a dozen soviet agents who worked for the United states and the loss of secret reports. New York a gov. Mario Cuomo said wednesday that president Clinton once offered him a seat on the supreme court. Cuomo deflected reporters questions about Why he declined saying Only that he wants to remain new Yorkus governor. He did not say when the offer was m a d e or which opening on the High court was offered. In Washington a senior Cuomo administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the president had made it Clear the Job was a a Mario a if he wanted it a but that it was not for Mally offered because Cuomo Wasny to interested. Cuomo who faces a Tough Campaign for a fourth term this fall said Clinton disclosed the offer tuesday might at a democratic governors association fund Raiser for Cuomo in washing ton. The event was closed to reporters. The disclosure a shocked a lot of people at the fund Raiser Cuomo said Cuomo had been considered a front runner for Clinton a first supreme court nomination when Justice Byron White announced his retirement in 1993. Clinton campaigning for president in 1992, had said Cuomo would qualify for the court. But in a letter to Clinton on april 7, 1993, Cuomo took himself out of the running. American Indian activist who annoyed Bush Dies Minneapolis apr Bea Swanson an american Indian activist who once beat a drum All Day outside the White House to protest the 1991 persian Gulf  died monday of cancer. She was 65, president Bush commented on How it was driving him crazy her daughter Caryn Laquier said about her drum protest. A doonesbury did a comic strip about it  Swanson spent 10 years working for loaves and fishes directing one of the six Minneapolis site programs that feed the hungry and was Active in Many protests and causes. She was director of the Indian ministry for local presbyterian and methodist churches