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Monday. August 26, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Group plans war tactics, targeting tobacco industry
The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The shock troops of the anti-smoking movement assembled in Springfield during the weekend for lessons in tactics ranging from boycots to "guerrilla warfare" to keep cigarettes out of the hands of youngsters.
aSbout 20 activists, doctors, teachers, health administrators, law-enforcement officials and community organizers from as far away as Boston to participate in the conference, which ran through Sunday.
Springfield-based Stop Teen-age Addiction to Tobacco, or STAT, organized the conference to develop methods for limiting the sale and advertising of tobacco products to youngsters.
On the agenda were workshops on such topics
as "Raining on the Philip Morris Parade," "Guerrilla Counter-Marketing Tactics" and "Counter-Advertising and Demonstrations."
At opening ceremonies, STAT board member Joseph W. Cherner said tobacco companies were victimizing young people with advertising.
"What a person does to themselves is their business, but what that person does to innocent victims is everyone's business," said Cheren Mullins, co-founder of启发教育 Services in New York City.
Joe Tye, STAT president, charged that senior executives of tobacco companies were "white-collar workers."
Conference organizers say tobacco companies induce about 3,000 minors to start smoking each day with sophisticated campaigns that target
Dr. Robert D. Jaffe of Seattle came to the conference to teach what he calls guerrilla tactics.
He said some opponents turned to acts of civil disobedience, such as whitewashing cigarette posters, though he does not "necessarily advocate" such acts.
young people. The tobacco industry has said it targets adults only.
Jaffe is executive director of Washington DOC, or Doctors Ought to Care, which has shadowed a traveling Bill of Rights exhibit sponsored by Philip Morris.
For its part, STAT is pushing a boycott of foods sold by tobacco company affiliates. The group is asking organizations and businesses to stop buying products made by Nabisco, which is affiliated with the company and items of Kraft General Foods, which are sold by an operating company of Philip Morris.
The protesters have built a 15-foot Fiberglass likeness of the Statue of Liberty that lifts a cigarette instead of a torch. Its inscription "Give me your poor, you tired, your women, your children, yearning to breathe free."
Asked about the boycott, Jason Wright, a representative for Reynolds parent R纳巴斯ico, told The Washington Post that
Reynolds and Philip Morris U.S.A. said the companies aimed their advertising at adults.
"The people who work at R.J. Reynolds are parents, just like some of the anti-smoking people. We don't want our kids to smoke. We don't want them to be smokers," said Reynolds representative Maura T Payne.
Tan-colored Jersey with 'cowsmetic look' wins top prize in bovine beauty competition
The Associated Press
PAINESVILLE, Ohio — The beauty queen wore leather — all over.
A five-member panel of judges on Wednesday selected 5-year-old dairy cow "Miss Montville," known to her companions on the Rettger Dairy Farm as "Lazy," as Miss Lake County Fair 1991.
"She's got a cowsmell look," said owner Dave Fay, whose animal was one of four entries in the bovine beauty contest in northern Ohio.
The tan-colored Miss Montville, a Jersey, was up against three black-backed Mounties.
Brittany) in the first-ever Miss Lake County competition.
The idea for the competition grew out of the county fair logo, which featured a cow's countenance enriched with decorative representative Christine Kraus said.
But it was Miss Montville's cows-
copolitan manners that put her over the
top, according to judge Andrea
Forstheright.
"We designed the cow so it looked sort of human. It has line," she said.
Brothers travel in wagon, live simply
"She kept the belching and the slobber to a minimum," said Forsthofer, this year's Miss Greater Cleveland.
The Associated Press
CLOVIS, Calif. — The Till brothers say the simple life on a two-man wagon train isn't easy in a world that hates to slow down.
Darren and Amos Till shun modern convenience for simplicity. With two hand-built wooden wagons and herds of mules, goats, sheep and chickens, they hope to trek about eight miles a day in new Mexico. There, they plan 'o farm.
"We backed up traffic for three miles coming over a bridge yesterday," Daren said Thursday, carrying buckets of water to his tired mule team. "The drivers were angry. They don't have any room for something that's not fast and
efficient."
Darren, 23, left his Cave Junction,
.ore, home five years ago to get away from "the disgusting modern lifestyle." "Amos, 19, followed twowears later, turning through Oregon and northern California," the elder brother recalled.
This spring, they started for New Mexico, 1,500 miles to the southeast. Hitched to the mule-driven wagons or perched inside them, the farm animals don't mind the journey because they been raised on the road, Darren said.
The brothers' trek will take them into informalism in Madagascar and through the Maimana Mountains.
the Mojave Desert. They plan to reach New Mexico next spring.
"It's never boring because we're always in a new place," Ames said. "I don't know if I'll be on the road my whole life, but I'll always live simply."
The brothers, bearded and lanky,
live mostly on goat's milk and eggs.
They batter with locals for other goods.
Sometimes they help plow a farmer's
fields or shoe horses in exchange for a
night's rest on someone's land.
Hybrid fruit is sweet on its market future
They also rely on the kindness of oldtimers along the way, Darren said.
"live in the margins of society." he said. "We set up each night between the roa side and the strip of fence — the land nobody's using."
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Eaten a good
plumcotally?
ssProbably not. But a plant geneticist with the U.S. Agriculture Department hopes you will in the future.
ss "it" is possible the plumcot could be
the most dominant favorite in
the next 10 years.
ssTo that end, Craig A. Ledbetter is growing about 450 young plumcoe trees in Fresno, Calif., orchard with the aim of popularizing the little-known fruit that combines a plum's firmness with an apricot's flavor.
ss"Sweet-tasting plumcots have been around for at least 80 years," Ledbetter said. "But they haven't been a crop that commercial growers want because individual trees typically produce too few fruit to be profitable."
ssLedbetter is breeding new generations of experimental plumcots and expects the research to lead to commercial orchards in California, Washington and New Jersey — states that now produce plums or apricots.
ss"Usually, ripe plumcots are about the size of a small plum," Ledbetter said. "They always have the soft, fuzzy skin." Plumcots can range from light yellow to black. Inside, the flesh can be orange, amber or even a very dark purple."
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TV news captures the failed Soviet coup in a whirlwind
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Once again, history did not happen in the dark.
Television was there, observing and observed, inextricably bound up in events that unfolded faster than presses could roll.
And the networks, ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC, rose to the occasion. Of course, with Tiananmen Square and the Persian Gulf War behind them, anything less would have been unforgivable.
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Instead, television opened a window into living history.
Last Monday, with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev toppled from power and under house arrest, television found Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, clamming up onto a tank to address his supporters.
The networks showed tanks and armored personnel carriers in the streets, taking up positions in Red and blue on the onion-domed spires of St Basil's.
CNN had a spectacular shot from its fixed camera high above the barricaded Russian Parliament building where Yeltsin spurred popular resistance against the coup and its leaders.
Analvsis
It was Soviet television.
by severing the U.S. electronic ties to the world. And the U.S. military effectively censored the war against Iraq by controlling access to the war zones.
It conveyed not just the extent of the resistance, but also that army tanks and armored personnel carriers had joined the opposition.
The KGB controlled most newspapers, radio and television, but Gostelradio, the Soviet broadcasting agency, the Soviet satellite links open to the foreign press.
The longer television showed that, the more obvious was the indecision and incompetence of the plotters.
China concealed its bloody suppression of student demonstrations in 1989
"Since the day this broke, business has been pretty much as usual as far as phone traffic and satellite bookings," said John Stack, foreign assignment editor for NBC.
The Soviet government had banned the use of portable satellite dishes called "flyaways," "however, limiting the time that networks could go live.
Eventually, live audio from Yeltsin supporters and reporters was originating from inside their "White House."
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