European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                994 a v surgeon Genera Joycelyn elders left Waves off reporters questions on the legalization of drugs attorney general Janet Reno advocates a change in the . Drug policy but not legalization. Reno elders and the legalization of drugs by Cox news service  understand Janet Reno issued a statement in 1 992 or 93 condoning the legalization of drugs. Can you fill mein v \ y " attorney general Janet Reno is on record As saying that the drug interdiction Effort mounted by the Federal government has stopped Only 2 5 percent of. The drugs targeted for the United states. She advocates a Carrot arid suck approach to staunching illegal drug use. The Carrot would be treatment on demand for those who need help in beating their self destructive habit. The stick would be Swift and sure punishment for those who refuse treatment and Are caught buying or using drugs. This is not the same As condoning legalization of  re probably thinking about surgeon general Joycelyn elders who created a Flap in december 1993 when she was asked if she favored legalization of illicit drugs. Her answer Many times they re drug users robbing stealing and All of these things to get Money to buy drugs. I do feel that we would markedly reduce our crime rate if drugs were legalized. But i Don t know about the ramifications of that and we need to do some further  she added that she had not discussed such a step with president Clinton and was not advocating a policy shift. ". Elders comment Drew immediate negative reaction in some quarters with Calls for her resignation. White House press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said Clinton does t support legalizing chugs. He s always been against  now file House action was taken publicly against elders. Herva newspaper describes Newt qing Rasjid As a right Wing Young Turk is to that yellow journalism a -. A time Magazine article said Gingrich entered Congress with the class of 1978 and soon founded the conservative Opportunity society a group of right Wing Young  the term is not derogatory. This is How Webster s defines Young Turk any of a group of younger people seeking to take control of a organization party country Etc. From an entrenched usually conservative group of older  Gingrich spokesman Allan Lipsett expressed no negative reaction to the term. S the democratic party uses a Donkey for its Symbol and the Republican party uses an elephant. How and when did those symbols originate As you can thank Andrew Jackson for starting All that. After his opponents called him a jackass during the 1 828 election Campaign he adopted the Donkey As a political Symbol. By the 1880s, newspaper cartoons depicting the Donkey caught the Public Eye and the democrats took it As the Symbol of their party. In 1874, a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper s weekly used an elephant to represent the Republican vote. Nast used the elephant so Many times As a Republican Symbol that it soon came to stand for the grand old party. Jackson u by sytfbu0lshave stood the test of time. And they can be recognized in the blink of an Eye. Before the nov. 8 election one cartoonist depicted president Clinton with a tiny elephant perched on his shoulder. On its nov. 21 cover time printed a cartoon style illustration showing a rampaging elephant crushing a tiny Donkey under its foot a Stampede you might say cos several news stories and editorials have reported that toys r us and Kay Bee toys will no longer be Selling realistic toy guns. What constitutes a realistic toy gun a this became an Issue after one teen Ager was shot and another killed in september after brandishing toy guns that were mistaken for real ones. In the aftermath the two toy store chains announced they would Stop Selling such items. What makes toy guns realistic looking is a matter of definition but it s one that is affecting the business of Stro Becker corp. Of Chicago the nation s largest manufacturer of these toys. Stro Becker has 60 percent of the Market the company is not totally abandoning toy guns according Tov news reports. But it will Start makings them in. Parrot colors and futuristic a styles that it feels Are less Likely to cause trouble i s what recording artist had the first million Selling record As you re Gonna be All Shook up because it was t the King and no not Bing Crosby for White Christmas either. The guinness Book of records says the first record eventually to aggregate a total Sale of a million copies was of performances by Enrico Caruso of the aria vesti la Gubba on with the Motley from the opera / Paglia dby Ruggiero Leoncavallo the earliest of which was recorded with piano nov. 1 2, 1 902. The first single recording to surpass the million Mark was carry me Back to old Virginne Sung by Alma Cluck. Do you have a question about the news then ask it and the Atlanta journal Constitution will try to find the answer and publish n in this column. Write a a on the news Box 4689, Atlanta 30302. Short subject germans try to pick up the Fine Art of flirting  Deutsche Presse Agenter one either has it or does t. The Talent to flirt. But an increasing number of germans Hope that they can learn it even though they Are discovering ills not a skill easily mastered. Ina a German woman in her mid-30s, is one of 10 female and four male students attending an eight hour crash course on flirtation at the local adult education Center in the Western German City of bad Homburg. She does t have the faintest idea what the lecturer wants her to do in one exercise. Throw an imaginary Ball to some other person in this class what for she says looking around in bewilderment lecturer Evelyn Holzmann responds we want to attract other people s attention and make them susceptible. Instead of throwing a Ball in real life you cast  so Ina throws the imaginary Ball to her partner Samm Iwho makes As if to catch it. In other exercises it s a Feather a piece of Cotton Wool a glance and eventually a thought. A precondition for a flirt is self Confidence and for Many that is where the biggest hurdle  if you Don t think you Are wonderful Why should others think so asks Holzmann when it comes to opening lines she advises students to refrain from too obvious advances such As Well How about us two then or Clumsy attempts like Lovely Day in t it she urges them to try More original openers. But no matter How hard the students try their efforts do not come across As genuine. I can do this Only if i fancy someone Gabi tells the baffled 13 fellow students. I can Only flirt Over the Telephone says fellow student Catherine. The class is aimed at addressing the inability foursome flirting comes easily for others it must be Learned. Of Many to make Contact with others and it is just one of Many of its kind offered at adult education centers and institutes in Germany. In our Gray Concrete covered cities there is too Little room for our feelings. People hide themselves they want to come across As Cool rather than sentimental. And suddenly they miss something says Holzmann explaining Why the flirting courses Are so popular. Holzmann who grew up in Italy where the locals know quite a bit about flirting maintains that the predominance of the intellect is to blame for growing isolation in Germany. Reason dictates everything she says. Fellow instructor Walter Haberling tells the students people flirt to boost self Confidence to while away the time and to attract attention or to seek a partner. Most students in the bad Homburg class cited the search for a partner and fun As reasons for taking the class. But Ingrid at 56 the oldest student said she wanted to learn for More altruistic reasons. I want to Charm a stranger so that his face will Light up in a smile for example in the Tramway she says. Scripps Howard news service a Leuice in Ithiers As ge6d Entill bid bid Al f a s f or r s 20 the stars and stripes wednesday november 30, 1994