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Show Page D12 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, February 11, 1993 t rumors in Michael Jackson f That's not important to me," he said. "What about the millions of people who sit out in the sun and become darker than they are?" He dismissed suggestions that he might be changing his appearance because he doesn't like who "Man in the Mirror" notwith- By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press Writer standing.) - LOS ANGELES Michael Jackson sas the man in the mirror has had a little work done on his nose but not the rest of his face. And he denies bleaching his skin, explaining he has a disorder that's destroying his pigment. "It's a problem for me, OK? I can't control it," the pop megastar said in a live TV interview Wednesday when asked by Oprah Winfrey about his fading skin color. The disorder, which he didn't identify, runs in the family, he said. In his first solo interview in nearly a decade, the eccentric star said he surrounds himself with children to make up for a friendless, workaholic childhood. He said he was beaten by his father and still doesn't like to look at himself in mirrors (His recent hit And he finessed a question about whether he is virgin, answering, if "You can call me you want." Jackson spoke animatedly and occasionally giggled during the interview at his Neverland ranch near Santa Barbara. He wore a red shirt with epaulets, dark pants and an armband. By confronting rumors about his personal life, Jackson said, he hoped his fans could focus on his art. He quickly dispensed with one of those rumors: that he bleached Other revelations: He doesn't like going out to date, but a woman friend does visit its effects. "Why is that so important? 1 1 ul fix for the real prob- foreign-base- d airline has sonal life. A photo billed as showing him sleeping in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber actually shows him testing equipment at a burn center he founded, he said. The broadcast included a tour of his ranch, which resembled a carnival with a ferris wheel and other rides. A movie theater had beds for the terminally ill children he regularly has as guests. Winfrey said Jackson set no ground rules for the interview, the latest sign he is emerging from his reclusiveness. His recent appearances include President Clinton's inauguration celebration and the Super Bowl halftime extravaganza. In Forbes magazine's ranking of the 1991-9- 2 highest-pai- d entertainers, Jackson was No. 6 with $51 million. Miss Winfrey was No. 2, with $88 million. 125TH OUR YEAR ave on Playtex Gross Your Heart bras al- I ready adopted "controlled rest" in the cockpit. Swissair says it studied the NASA data, surveyed employees and, after government approval seven months ago, enacted a policy for both two- - and three-pilcrews. United, Northwest and Delta say they plan to use the procedure of cockpit naps once it is approved by the FAA. The advisory circular would not make the procedure a ot yx first-cla- ' V ' ?y'tl '''' "IP' y x 'I.'? " x,t yy its. mandate; it would simply be guidelines airlines must follow it they choose to use naps. But the pilots group insists that the airlines will use the circular as a tool to chisel away current flight-dut- y schedules to save money. It's cheaper to allow a pilot to sleep in the cockpit than stretch out in a seat, which represents $2,400 to $4,000 in revenue on an international flight, says Brian Mayhew, an APA pilot who is on the committee writing the circular. "The safe answer is: Put on a relief pilot and provide a rest facilion this." be a Band-Ai- d ty so these people can rotate out of Every month pilots send in 0 their duty positions and get some reports of near accidents sleep," says Mayhew. "The inand 1.3 percent are related to fadustry knows that works, but it tigue, according to NASA's Avia- also costs money. When airlines tion Safety Reporting System, are under severe cost pressures, where pilots can anonymously re- the tendency is to go to the lowest-cosolution." port an problems that occur. A relief pilot costs an airline "It's been a consistent issue," says William Reynard, director of about $80 to $125 per hour of the system. flight, according to union estiand zones time mates. Flying through R. Curtis Graeber, chairman of turning night into day does brutal tilings to one's body. "It's like the group that wrote the draft and studying for final exams all the the NASA scientist w ho headed the all the time," fatigue research from 1981 to tune sas Bob Garrett of York, Maine, 1990. says it's time to call a spade Band-Ai- d CELEBRATE COME crews, apply only to three-pilw ith two crew members on duty at all times while the third one slept. The pilots group says using cockpit naps is merely a way for the beleaguered airline industry to cut costs. Losses in 1992 for U.S. airlines are expected to total more than $4 billion. Three major U.S. airlines are already under bankAmerica ruptcy protection West' Continental and TWA and three went out of business in 1991 Eastern, Pan Am and Midway. One g saying "it happens subliminally." He added: "It's the music that compels me to do it. You don't think about it, it just happens. I'm slave to the rhythm. ' ' "There is no such thing as skin bleaching," he said. "I've never seen it. I don't know what it is." He said his disorder began after the 1982 release of his "Thriller" album, and he uses makeup to cover ot For years it has been aviation's dirty little secret. Airline pilots, exhausted by flying hours across many time zones, land on wrong runways, slip out of assigned air space and sometimes fall asleep at the controls of planes full of passengers. No one knows exactly how often pilots fall asleep in the cockpit, but there is enough anecdotal evidence that industry specialists can no longer deny it. A National Aeronautics and Space Administration study of log books kept by pilots and reported in December 1991 that they took naps in the cockpit percent of the time they were on duty. The Federal Aviation Administration is studying a controversial proposal to improve pilot alertness and performance by scheduling naps in the cockpit on long-hanights. At least one union representing pilots has strongly objected, charging that the proposal would sacrifice public safety while allowing the airlines to save money by reducing the number of pilots. Richard LaVoy, president of the Allied Pilots Association, which represents 12.000 American Airlines pilots, said: "It's kind of a crotch-grabbin- during performances,' his skin. eyes 'controlled rest' for sleepy pilots Boston Globe cos- metic surgery to his nose but didn't alter his chin, his eyes, his lips or any of the rest of his face. "Very little. You can count it on two fingers," he said, referring to cosmetic procedures. He also defended his child- hood to constant rehearsals, recordings and touring. He often Shields. would cry when he saw other chilHis father, Joseph, was a dren playing. stern man who teased and some"Slumber parties, hanging out. times beat him as an adolescent for There was none of that for me. I being "sad" and withdrawn, but didn't have any friends when I was Jackson forgave him. little," he said. "People always During adolescence, he had wonder why I have children so many pimples he refused to look around. ... I find a thing I never in mirrors, and is still reluctant to. had through them." "I washed my face in the dark," His purpose in life? he said. "I feel I was chosen as an instruHe denied trying to buy the ment to give music, love and harbones of the Victorian sideshow mony to the world," he said. figure known as the Elephant Man. His friend Elizabeth Taylor ap"What would I need with some peared on the broadcast to declare bones?" He hasn't read a book by his that Jackson "is the least weird sister LaToya that portrays the man I've ever known. " Jackson family as dysfunctional. "If he has any eccentricities, "I love my sister dearly," he said. he's larger than life and some peoHe hopes to have a family ple just cannot accept that or unsome day. "But I couldn't right derstand it," she said. Jackson blasted what he called now because I'm married to my "godawful stories" about his per work," he said. "I'm a black American," he "I'm proud of my race." 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"If you need the rest, you should be out of the cockpit .... resting in the back.',' The proposed nap policy would op-pus- es varners Buy Iwo GET ON 1 a spade. "We know people have been falling asleep for years. Let's plan for it and make it legal," says Graeber, now a manager of flight deck research at Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. "You're better off having your pilot taking a nap while you're eating a steak than having him falling asleep while you're approaching Hong Kong." r Bill may outlaw oregano LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (AP) -Cooking Italian could endanger your freedom in Arkansas. A bill introduced in the legislature could make possession of oregano illegal, and punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The bill in the state House of Representatives would make it a felony to create, deliver or possess "counterfeit" marijuana. Under the proposal, coupled with definitions in current law, a person could be arrested if the "counterfeit substance" looks like marijuana and is packaged in a manner normally used for delivery of the drug usually a plastic bag. "That's insane," Gary Eklund, owner of Beans and Grains and Things in Little Rock, said of the proposed legislation. Supporters of the bill contend that an arrest would occur only if someone were trying to sell oregano as marijuana. But Deputy Attorney General Jack Gillean said that such a representation wouldn't be required. "If the police found someone who was involved in the (drug) trade and they happen to be in possession of oregano packaged that way, clearly conditions would be met," Gillean said. "He is going to have to convince police he is making a big pot of spaghetti or Dried, crumbled oregano leaves something." 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