European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Monday november 14,1994 Oregon doctors Law Portland Ore. A the nation s first Law of assisted suicide is Leav ing Many doctors and patients with on question can i go through with it i intend to take that option said Tim shuck a 45-year-old with aids who was Given less than a year to live. Can i change my mind sure. What Inow have is the Legal option. Whether i choose to fulfil that option time will Tell he said. The Law approved by voters tuesday allows patients with less than six months to live to ask a doctor for a lethal prescription. The request must be made at least twice then a third time in writing before doctors can Supply the drugs. It is up tothe patient to take the drugs and Only after All other alternatives have been rejected. The Law takes effect dec. 8. A Eugene doctor who helped Lead the fight against physician assisted suicide predicted that Many doctors would not go through with it. I Don t think there will be an  i think there will be a Large number of physicians who refuse to cooperate said or. Winston Maxwell who has prac tired in Oregon for nearly 30 years. Some people who have faced a deadly disease such As cancer survivor Shelley Olson say the new Law allows patients to give up when they should keep fighting. We be taken a giant leap backwards into the dark Ages said Olson a 44 year old Farmer who was Given just three months to live when she was diagnose with stomach cancer two years ago. Her doctors now say she s cancer free. An operation by any other name May not restore recall by Art Pine los Angeles times Washington they Beckon from the past thereat military Battles and their still stirring code names operation overlord the a Day invasion of  Torch the .-British Landing in North Africa. Operation Anvil also known As operation drag Monthe Allied amphibious invasion of Southern France  a ". Now fast Forward to the 1990s the . Intervention in Somalia was called operation restore Hope. The . Rescue Effort in Rwanda was named operation support Hope. The american intervention in Haiti is known a operation uphold democracy. And last month s urgent . Mobilization to pre vent iraqi troops from again invading Kuwait was operation vigilant  the sort of thing they la remember in the year 2021," a Pentagon strategist  disparity Points to a Paradox while the Quality of . Forces and their weapons has risen to an All time High the Art of finding inspiring code names for what they do has become an unexpected casualty feast West peace. Even the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff retired army Gen. Colin l. Powell himself no stranger to the Plain Vanilla turn of phrase found operation productive Effort the name proposed for a . Humanitarian Aid Mission to Bangladesh in 1991too humdrum to let out of the Pentagon. Defense department planners eventually changed itto operation sea Angel but that was inspired by the bangladeshis who first used the term to describe the Marine helicopter pilots who delivered Relief supplies. It was not always this Boring. Winston Churchill thereat communicator of world War ii placed special importance on the need for bold sounding code name for military operations. He favored monikers such As overlord which he approved personally in Hopes that they might inspire Allied troops and presumably entice historians As Wellin 1943, he even Laid Down guidelines that still serve As a Standard for would be Battle dubbers. The . Defense department maintains a military wide computer data base known by the initials Nicka that seeks to prevent duplication by allocating specific initials to individual commands. Navy it. Cmdr. Edwin a. Shuman who Heads the Nicka unit said combat commanders Are assigned a series of double letter blocks from be through new for example with the first word such As Early Al ". Is  Clinton chats in october with . Forces in Kuwait who were there to counter an iraqi troop buildup along the Border. The . Military Effort was dubbed operation vigilant Warrior a name that has not found a per manent Slot in Many memories even though it occurred Only last month. Ready  commanders then fill in the second word for example Bird to Nike the name operation Early  a High profile operation the names Are reviewed by the joint chiefs of staff. Once taken a name is no used again for another two years. All this is just to develop two word nicknames which Are designed to inspire the troops or to Send some sort of message to the Public. The actual code names used by the military Are Only a single word and Are classified As , too Many of today s code names Are a acklus Ter b uninspiring c not very stirring and d just Plainbull. One exception operation desert storm the name Given to the 1991 persian Gulf War in t bad by historical standards. But the buildup that preceded it was labelled operation desert shield a name that perhaps justifiably already has been All but  name vigilant Warrior for the most recent . Deployment to Kuwait has not found a permanent Slotin Many memories either and that operation took place barely a month  no one knows precisely when military forces began using code names routinely the late new zealand etymology is Eric Partridge reported that the practice already had become entrenched during Eliza Bethan Days when London recorded almost 200 Mili tary code names. Partridge s own research showed that Many of the code names of that Era were applied to people or institutions. The 16th-Century English statesman lord Burghley for example was said to have used signs of the Zodiac such As cancer and Leo for top officials of that Day. A . Army publication soldiers suggested tha Churchill May have set the Standard. Acutely aware of the value of symbolism in maintaining fighting spirit he rejected names that he thought too boastful frivolous depressing or mundane. The world is wide he wrote and intelligent thought will readily Supply an unlimited number of Well sounding names which. Do not enable some widow or Mother to say that her son was killed in an operation called Bunny hug or Ballyhoo today s use of computers May explain How the Selec Tion got to be so Dull. In recent months the Nicka program appears to have been stuck on the words pro vide and restore As in operations provide Comfort and restore Hope. Some analysts suggested that what May be needed now is a new Effort dubbed operation provide better choices followed by operation restore Pizazz to the Pentagon s code names. High schooler refuses to do Good deeds for diploma to it Al it 1t� a Toto to a a to a. �. A. N. White Plains . A Daniel Immediato s parents taught him that doing Good is its own Reward. But they never said he was obliged to help others. He agrees and it May Cost him his High school diploma. Immediate 17, is a senior at Rye neck High school where students Are required to do 40 hours of Community service Over fou years. He refused to comply saying the requirement instituted in 1992, violates his constitutional rights. He and his parents Eugene and Diane sued the Mamaroneck based Rye neck school District in Federal court last Spring. Students Art being forced to perform uncompensated service to others Scott Bullock Immediato s lawyer argued thursday before . District judge Charles Brieant. Bullock said the requirement violates the anti slavery 13th amendment and the 14th amendment s due process provisions. It also creates a clash Between parental authority and school authority he said. School District lawyer Phyllis Jaffe said that 40 hours of service Over four years is not slavery and that students had Many programs to choose from. This is an education program Jaffe said. It teaches them How to go to work How to cooperate. It teaches teamwork and problem solving we re trying to teach them Good  the judge will Rule later. After court immediate said he would not graduate in june and would get a Gen eral equivalency degree instead if Nec Essary