| Show - - - The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday September i ' ' I - 4 Hired Audience Leaves in Midst of Speech SI magneassamospg 1t - I EARTE t oRIcs Lead Story France's tourism minister Olivier Stirn resigned in July after his plan to increase attendance at a confer- Simple Ways to Save the Earth was going through my mail this week and ran across this card from Dean Roberts of Cooperstown NY: Dear Earth-WorkI have A 1 the Earth Care 1 Atlantic Recycled Paper PO Box 11021 Baltimore 6 21212 (301) LaSalle Paper 4170 Bandini Blvd Los Angeles Calif 90023 paper catalog 'iit Butler St 323-267- s: 't you mentioned in a recent col umn but now I'm interested in finding more companies that C11 i -- A i - " T"'''''' 1:' ' ence backfired When only 37 people showed up (out of 5000 invitees) Stirn hurriedly called a local actors' union and offered about 650 each for 200 actors to sit in the audience to make it respectable in size (Featured speakers were 12 government ministers and two former prime ministers) However the actors thought their gig expired at 6:15 pm (while Defense Minister Jean Pierre Chevenement was speaking) and they walked out en masse Wrong Place Wrong Time — Jeffrey Pederson and Laurie McDonald were arguing so loudly at a Toronto hotel in Much that the clerk called the police When constable Andy Hickerson arrived he demanded identification from the two and Pederson produced credit cards and a driver's license belonging to Hickerson who had reported his wallet missing several days before — South Dakota newspaper editor Ward Bushee had written critical editorials about Air National Guard flyovers during patriotic ceremonies because they were noisy and dangerous ("What if a jet crashed?" he wrote) In May he was invited to ride in an A-- 7 fighter jet in such a ceremony and accepted out of journalistic curiosity His jet collided with another and both pilots and Bushee were forced to eject — Leslie Steven Slovak 28 was sentenced to a year in jail in Calgary in May for aiding a felony after the fact While he was standing in a bank line a man robbed it Slovak gave a perfect description of the robber omitting only that it was Slovak's brother (Slovak had no advance knowledge that his brother would be robbing the bank) Things Not Supposed to Happen — A Hong Kong man Co Md I (213) 269-113- Paper Co 2420 Dallas Texas 75235 Olmsted-Kir- k ) I (214) 637-222- 0 Print Power Services 3020 Allis p'T41: St '40 must be some John Javna How about it? 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more recycled paper products are appearing on shelves in stores all over the country and it's important to remind store owners that there really is a market for recycled goods (If you have questions or comments about our environment and what you can do to help please write to John Javna in care of Earth Works PO Box 419149 Kansas City M 64141 Because of the volume of mail John is unable to reply personally but will address issues of general interest in the column) (Now available: "50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth" by the Earth Works Group To order please send $695 plus $150 postage and handling to "50 Simple Things" Andrews & McMeel PO Box 419150 Kansas City Mo 64141) COPYRIGHT 1990 JOHN JAVNA er v 1 t Fred Reed with disastrous results The gases are deadly even in small amounts Writes Spiers: "Very low dosages will cause a running nose a tightness of the chest dimness of vision and contraction of the eye pupils At higher dosages the symptoms will friendly troops to occupy the progress through difficulty in breathing to drooling and excessive ground Some are thick as motor oil and linger for long periods prevent- sweating nausea vomiting cramps and involuntary defecation and urination twitching jerking and staggering headache confusion drowsiness coma convulsions and finally ing an enemy from occupying a region The gases the Iraqis are known to use are nerve agents and mustard gases Nerve gases were discovered in Germany in 1936 by a fellow working on improved insecticides The types most often mentioned in history books are sarin tabun and soman but many others exist In a sense nerve gases short-circuthe brain When one nerve wants to transmit a nervous impulse to another it releases a substance called a neurotransmitter in this case acetylcholine which crosses the gap between the two nerve fibers and causes the second one to fire Then so that the second nerve will not continue to fire an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase mops up the neurotransmitter 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