| Show SPECIAL PARADE'S Intelligence IReport 1LS Military Strength: I Past Present & Future I thrombosis obstructed kidneys s of Sept 30 1989 US military personnel on active duty throughout the world numbered 2130229 Herewith the breakdown by service: Army 769741 Navy 592652 Air Force 570880 and Marine Corps 196956 By Oct 1 of this year the Defense Department—in order to fulfill the requirements of the A Ia t)gt 0 L budget restricticms of Congress and a number of other factors including agreements between the US our NATO allies and the Soviet Union Quote To Ponder 6 ' n entry recruits offering early retirement to some officers and enlisted personnel and taking advantage of other attritional factors How or if the other two services plan to reduce their personnel this year is not yet known at this writing By 1995 however Pentagon planners anticipate the reduction of approximately 300000 men and women from the US armed forces— depending of course on the continued dirninighment of the Soviet threat in Europe the 8 a old he tends to become stubborn and lose energy I am old now My brain still works but I may say crazy things in the future" —Deng Rimming senior kader of the People's Republic of China at age 85 as quoted last September in Wen Wel Boo a Chinese newspaper publiged in Hoeg Kong agonizing I r) and Tannin wife Joan and son daughters Julie-KaRichard: When the actor died last year he left them little by Hollywood standards Lord Olivier in 1935 with te (1-- was disappointed to read not too long ago that the 'fl renowned actor Laurence Olivier who died last July at age 82 had left an estate of $2 million to his widow the actress Joan Plowright and their three children—Richard 28 'ramsin 26 and Julie-Kat- e 23—and a share to his son Tarquin 53 by his first wife Jill Esmond Lord Olivier Baron of Brighton had no offspring by his second wife the tragic Vivien Leigh of Gone With the Wind fame to whom he was married from 1940 to 1960 I was let down by the size of Olivier's estate for two reasons: 1) Possibly the greatest actor in the history of the English-speakin- g theater he had been in show business for 60 years and 2) I had asked him more than a decade ago why he was appearing in a remake of the 1931 horror plm Dracula and he had explained that he was getting on in years and felt' compelled to provide prostitution on what I judged were sufficient grounds In truth $2 million is not a negligible sum for an actor to bequeath to his family—except when one compares that mini to the $40 million that Arnold Schwarzenegger will earn as his share of Twins a movie in which Rosh - The co-starr-ed I I I ' Actress Joan Collins outside London's Westminster Abbey where sbe was one of 2000 at memorial service for Olivier SHEARER © are a calm placid people who do not marry baste—even when the is pregnant It is he and Danny De Vito and the fantastic level to which Hollywood has raised the salaries of all its leading men In retrospect I consider that Laurence Olivier sold himself short But then again his first L to Ilahimony Swedes for his children Subsequently when Olivier cynically chose to work in such movie bombs as Clash of the Titans Inchon and The Jazz Singer and accepted cameo roles in simibir film fare I excused his BY LLOYD estimated that half the Swedes living together are unmarried and more than 40 of Swedish babies are born out of wedlock Of late however the Swedes have taken to marriage in largely to a new tax law that many of them apparently don't understand The law holds that a woman will lose her claim to a widow's pension unless she can prove that she actually was married to her husband at the time of his death The law also says however that women will be entitled to benefits for their children upon the death ofthe father whether the couple were married or not In iu3y case after these many years Swedish women are playing it safe and pressuring their men to the altar Beats arguing with the tax collector they say : 1990 PAGE 16 iMMffMMEMOMMIfeStZ3INDINMMMMUN clisFese muscle-wastin- g er gs law—will have trimmed at least 23600 men and women from the military services The Army will cut 12000 troops and the Air Force 11600 it is expected by reducing the number of deficit-reductio- chronic pneumonia and an that prevented him from working as much as he wanted In October some 2000 people attended a memorial service for the versatile in Westminster Abbey This year Olivier's family will see his fondest wish come true His ashes will be placed in the Poets' Corner of the Abbey not far from the remains of Chaucer and Tennyson—an honor worth more to him than gold in any amount A minister's son Laurence Olivier was basically a traditionalist who believed strongly in all the pomp and pageantry of British custom and history They appealed to his sense of theater - Gramm-Rudman-Hollin- love was the stage not the screen In his later years Olivier suffered from cancer of the prostate Laurence Olivier—Final Curtain JANUARY 21 1990 PARADE itAGAZINE |
