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Show Page B2 THE HERALD, Prove, Utah, Thursday, November 22, 1990 soldbr S3qis tie fioall Forrcaoir NEW YORK (AP) Two decades ago Nguyen Ngoc Hung was creeping through the Jungles of Southeast Asia, a North Vietnam1 B ese hunting American soldiers. nun (L mi, ft. ? iff ' AP Lsawpfapta Eve deserve a break today restaarant Some direct a herd of the streets of and Marseille, France, past a McDonald' A vwag shepherd helps to gome 3,80$ sheep through 398 shepherds frm the region alerted the public to their particular problems. - Beating high cost of delivering: Magazines are doing it themselves - ATLANTA AP) Magazine publishers say they've found a way to beat the high cost of delivering: They're doing it themselves, ; A few small alternative magazine delivery systems have popped up over the last few years, but now .'one of the industry's heavy hitters Time Warner Inc. has entered the picture. f ! The publishing industry says if : ; Time's system prospers, more ;companies could follow and eventually provide significant competition Ifor the U.S. Postal Set vice. i "There's no question what the motivation here is," said George Gross, an executive vice president 'of the trade group Magazine of America. "By building a distribution system you are saying .'to the Postal Service that while ; there is no alternative now, in time there will be." ! The magazine industry "has been ; complaining for years that rising postal rates have been cutting into their profits. Postmaster General Anthony Frank has acknowledged ;that postal rates have increased beyond general inflation, and he has vowed to slow the pace. ; But the Postal Service maintains ; it can do a Better job of delivery than alternative systems such as Pub-ushe- rs ; ,' ; Publishers ; ! ; ; Express, for which Time Warner is the managing partner. Eight other equity partners are involved in the project. Begun in Atlanta last year on a trial basis, Publishers Express now is delivering more than 100,000 magazines, catalogs and advertisement packages a month to more than 80,000 households within five ZIP codes. The company has set a goal of 200.80 pieces a month to 100,000 households by the end of the year. From a suburban Atlanta facility, delivery crews sort 24 titles including Time, Sports Illustrated, TV Guide, the Atlantic Monthly and Playboy and deliver them in sealed packages before dawn each day. Publishers Express cannot use mailboxes under federal law. The magazines and catalogs are delivered to doorstep or left at the base of a mailbox. "If you look at the magazine business, distribution is the only cost we dont tiave control over," said Howard Rosen, president of Publishers Express. "But It's very tough to tell the post office you don't like their pricing structure. They'd Say, Tine, Init you've got nowhere else to go.' " Since 1870, Rosen said, the cost for second-clas- s postage which is the rate for newspapers and magazines has risen 811 ipereent compared with a general inflation rate of 209 percent over that time. Third-clas- s the rate for postage most catalogs has gone up 364 percent, he said. The Postal Service puts the figures a bit lower: 767 percent for second class and 247 percent for third class. Nonetheless, Rosen said, "It's too to distribute our products through the post office." In addition to titles published by Time Warner, the distribution service has contracted with other magazines and catalogs to deliver their products, Rosen said. The titles in the designated ZIP code areas are automatically distributed Publishers ' Express, through though con- 300,003 " counted for. When be asked VS. servicemen to help find North Vietnamese remains, a veteran in the audience replied: ! can give yoa some of ; the grave sites." Hang, 42, joined the North Vietnamese army at 26 and fought from 1969 to 1975,' mostly on foot and sometimes with the Viet Cong is South Vietnam. "la good-thing- Vietnam the government "I think fit's heaShy'to twry the hatchet, to heal the wounds," said. Friedman, who was at the Vietnam Memorial service. "I think it's important for people thought we were the winner, so their soldiers didst have any proh-tern- s, he said. In fact, ihe Vietnamese had flashbacks and nightmares and things like that, too." ; to pat the war behind tbera,j Friedman said. "My fellow Viet--j nam veterans who want to keep refighSing the war are not helping: is new ia Vietnam. "Psychology , - I . unac- We need something like that here," he 'said. "One of my friends went crazy after the war, and they fust themselves. 4 ! but service is reliable. "The fact of the matter is, we have people who are career workers delivering the mail. We think we're more reliable," he said. Hoobing declined to speculate on the impact of such alternative delivery services. lie said about 6.5 percent of the 161.6 bSOkm pieces of mail handled last year by the Postal Service was second! class. If future postal rate increases continue to pinch, 'there will be more magazines saying (to Time) we want to join you," said Gross, of the Magazine Publishers of America. Kofie Q. Dadzie, an assistant I s IID 1 UP 1! ;. 111 "i " 'j , , ? 3 R Mi . r..... at Georgia State University who specializes in distribution systems, said an operation such as Time's would have, to handk an enormous amount of material to make its costs competitive with the post office. ( "I'd be interested in finding the cost analysis that said it would be cheaper," Dadzie said. "I'm sur- ' j - " k V I n prised." Rosen declined to disclose Publishers Express' income, but he acknowledged the distribution system must expand if it is to do the job of the post office at a lower eost. , as, , "Clearly at the scale we're at, are not in a competitive price situation with the post office," he said. "We need to double our we i ! t?j - j Drug searches are going to the dogs narcotics Corky is a agent who, in his first year on the job, turned up more than 300 pounds of marijuana, more than 150 pounds of cocaine and $57,000 in undeclared currency. Corky is a cocker spaniel. In late 1988, the U.S. Customs was faced with an increase in drugs smuggled into this country by commercial airline passengers, according to an article in the current issue of Cosmopolitan, and sought a way to check thousands of passengers arriving daily on international flights, but unobtrusively and without creating massive delays. Customs hit on the idea of using small, friendly, playful dogs trained to identify the scent of illegal drugs and signal the source to their trainer simply by sitting beside the suspect. For the first time in the history of the Canine Enforcement Program, dogs would be used to detect drugs on people. Corky was one of those dogs, taken from an animal shelter in Peoria, 111., and enrolled in the training program at the Detector Dog Training Center Academy in Front Royal, Va. He was teamed up with Canine Enforcement officer Ricky Grim, 20-ye- ar ek ' was affectionate, consistent, with strong hands, steady nerves and a calm low voice that did not hurt the dog's ears. Corky spent the first few days chasing rolled towels scented with various drugs. When the dog picked up the towel, Grim rewarded him with praise and play. . The dog's sense of smell probably 10,000 times more sophisticated than that of his trainer could pick up the vinegary scent of heroe aroma in, the slightly of marijuana, the metallic scent of cocaine. During the second week of training the rolled towels were hidden Inside suitcases, in wrapped boxes, in the false bottoms of carry-o- n bags and on the bodies of volunteers. After training, Corky and Grim were assigned to Miami International Airport. The first week, a woman approached Corky to pet him. Corky sat down at her feet. Grim called over one of the rovers plainclothes customs inspectors who are always moving through crowded terminals. The woman was asked to. accompany a female rover to a small examination room. She was carry who wild-thym- ing liquid cocaine in vials. Corky has detected narcotics in articles ranging from a seafood cooler to a garment bag to under a woman's blouse. One smuggler kicked him. Another, caught coming in from Bolivia carrying a Bible and Si pounds of cocaine, claimed to have had 15 wives and 60 kids. He wanted his picture taken with Corky sitting on his lap. Sounds rise, but odors sink. Corky can walk around a newly emptied plane and pick up a scent. If someone on the plane had drugs on his body, the scent would settle at floor level. Packaging does not affect the dog's ability to smell, a fact people who wrap drugs in plastic, foil or cardboard don't realize. They also try to put the dog off the scent by adding coffee beans, vanilla, mothballs, Jamaican allspice. Scents do not work that way. A dog picks them up in layers, not one big aroma but separately the duct tape, the plastic bag, the layer of motor oil, the marijuana. , ',- ' New 1 990 products appear on shelves The best NEW YORK (AP) and brightest of 1990's new products will make the world a bet r place: a special highway for electronic cars, a tiny computer chip with capacity. And ... hey! Is that the new Nintendo Super Gloveball cartridge? The visionary mixed with the venal recently at the unveiling of near-limitle- ss Popular Science magazine's 100 "Best of What's New" products. Inventors, developers, publicists and promoters packed Tavern on the Green to check out items including a computer Bible and a lightning detector. Novak (no first name), a toy for Mattel, stood among developer ' the Cornucopia of commodities with his baby: Super Gloveball. Wearing his official Mattel Powerglove, he demonstrated the latest In video game entertainment. He moved the glove; a corre- -' sponding image on the screen aped the maneuver. He closed the glove; the image closed on a ball. He moved the glove in a throwing motion; the ball sailed at a wall on the screen. this is pretty "For pseudo good. This is as good as It gets for an $80 computer," he said. The new cartridge was 2 years in development; it retails for $40. the folks from For real Imax Systems Corp. were right set around the corner. A space-ag- e of glasses using an infrared system 3-- 3-- replaces the old en Which is good news If the Three Stooges shorts are released again in Andrew Williams, on the other hand, said his company's product is not for the thickheaded. The Storm Alert a small device slightly larger than the average beeper 3-- : 1 i ! ' j T j S 14.99-16.9- 9 cardboard shades handed out at the old movie theaters. How real is this new system? "When things appear to hit you in the face, there are some signs of reaction in the nervous system," said Bill Shaw, one of the system's developers. "It's like someone hit you in the face with a soft cream pie." ,j L" ; i '''." - J P If It were a stew, Grim would be smelling stew, but Corky would smell lamb, potatoes, peppers, carrots, peas. 4 "';' " i 4 X jy v Reg. pull-o- n 20.99-21.9- 9 avpMMirrntinock of Hidden Rl ' styles. Chwe front On wle llii Zi pull-o- n baic and fashion colots in Frida H- - and slimmm-- C Tvl I and Suturtby order by phone: In Salt Like, 3216666; elsewhere in litali ami in thf L.S.. It-1- 0 ; IBae rage and lmrt leiijitlb. and Saturday ouh iniwrtique. Shop special hour Friday al- lowed black soldiers to pass before opening fire on whites. Hung thought for a moment and answered: "Yes." He later explained that the Viet Cong included villagers who by day mingled with many VS. soldiers: When they became soldiers themselves at night, they would allow friendly faces to pass before firing at offices, many of whom were unpopular with local residents and most of whom happened to he ; white. "Not all American soldiers were bad. Some gave food to the people," he said "We werent shootiag at the Mack or the white, we were shooting at the bad man. There was something nice and funny going on during the war that nobody wanted to dip into. It was kind of like you behave, yon were well, if you didnt behave, you were punished." New York state veteran couase--, for Daniel A. Friedman said he ; thinks Nguyen's visit is a post-traumat- ic soldiers missing in action his Vietnamese soldiers still that Vietnamese sometimes sumers may request that the Postal Service take over feeir service. Postal Service spokesman Bob Hoobing said costs may be higher marketing professor i Now he's telling his former enemies of the troubles they share: brothers missing in action and emotional problems. i Hung has embarked on what he calls a "healing mission" to meet bis former enemies. Other Vietnamese who fought the Americans have visited the United States, but none has come solely to talk to U.S. combat veterans. Veterans Day On Monday Hung stood ha front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Manhattan and pledged to organize Vietnamese combat veterans to search for the remains of VS. serviceman. "I doubt the diplomats can go into the jungle and forest and find the men buried in battle, he said. Moments after making the promise he prayed with American vets. One gave him a flower. At a meeting later in Harlem, Hung told his audience that Americans areni the only ones with younger brother is one of sent him home. He's with his family, but ... be cant do anything. , Still, he said, "In our country we dont have a homeless veteran." At the Harlem meeting, one man asked about a rumor he'd heard After the war, he finished college, studied English in England and Australia, and returned to Hanoi to teach at the Foreign Languages College. He and his wife have two sons who are crazy about American music. " After an interview with him in Vietnam was broadcast last year on "60 Minutes, Hung was invited to visit by the National Network of Indochina Activists and the Asia Resource Center. Since arriving Nov. 1, he has met Veterans in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, and visits are planned during the next , month for New Haven, Conn.; Boston; Atlanta; Madison, WiS4 Pittsburgh; Los Angeles; San Francisco, and San Diego. A week ago, he met with a group of veterans with stress syndrome, "They looked at me attentively as I came in," he said. But then they began to talk: about a mother's suspicious looks, about a girlfriend's rejection, about drugs and nightmares and flashbacks. Although some veterans have criticized the VS. government's psychological programs for them. Hung was impressed. 9-1- 0; 1 500-759-6666. |