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Thursday, April 9, 1987 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Commentary A-7 Questions on Zimmer have ready answers corps also concluded that Zimmer station is the most cost-effective means of providing that energy. reserve margin is forecast to drop below acceptable levels by the time Zimmer goes into service. We are proud of our record of providing reliable and low-cost electrical energy to our customers, and plan to continue to do so in the future. BRUCE STOECKLIN Director Media Services Cincinnati Gas Electric Co. Readers' views Sex counselor I am thoroughly disgusted! I read Camilla Warrick's article "Reassuring Sex Advice for Single Women" (April 2), extolling the virtues of a Cincinnati Health Department employee who counsels adolescent girls on sex and how to dodge AIDS by carrying condoms in their purses (a doubtful solution, at best).

The employee goes on to stipulate "never accept a mate who won't wear one." Honestly, one would think she was talking about farm animals in heat. Her final remark, "If you use it (your body) properly you can still have a lot of fun," leads me to wonder which one is the adolescent the school girl or the counselor. DOLORES RETTIG 1707 Monticello Drive Fort Wright, Ky. to follow. It sounds as if Mr.

Flannery got most of his information from the westernized movie Gandhi. In truth, following numerous hunger strikes and the British withdrawal from India, a "new discipline and leadership over the independence movement" did not follow. What followed was a blood bath in which Indians slaughtered over one million of their countrymen. With the British authority gone, there was no one to stop this civil war. Gandhi sat on his mat fasting while the slaughter continued.

Muslims and Hindus beheaded babies, women and old people in the streets during the independence massacres for no other reason than that they were of a different religious faith. And that is reason to hold up their leader as an example to follow? Did Gandhi's pacifism stop the annihilation of his own people? JILL WISE 535 Rosary Drive Erlanger, Ky. Hot news Hard-hitting journalism! That's about all you can call your front-page headline of April 4. I mean, how many other newspapers in the United States, or anywhere, for that matter, would put on the top headline of the front page that the local football franchise is disbanding its cheerleading squad? Whew! Is it true that Bob Woodward got his start in journalism at The Cincinnati Enquirer? Well, all I can say is: Cancel my subscription to the Washington Post. I found a newspaper that knows where to put the important news stories of the day.

PAUL KUHN 8454 Jonathan Court Maineville. Steve Newman He didn't kill anyone; he didn't rob a bank or hold hostages. He doesn't play baseball or dabble in politics. But he did walk around the world! Thanks to The Enquirer for the great coverage on Steve Newman of Bethel. I was one of the relatively few people who took advantage of the opportunity to accompany him on the last leg of his historic trek, and then listen to his message of hope and encouragement for everyone.

Think my kids will give me a pair of Rocky boots for Mother's Day? Welcome home, Steve. MARTY ROBINSON 2590 Bantam Road Bethel. TO THE EDITOR: A recent letter raised several questions about the Wm. H. Zimmer Generating Station Many Questions Remain on Zimmer," March 24).

Most of those questions, and many others as well, have already been answered in the final environmental impact statement issued recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the project. Interested readers can inspect the statement at the Hamilton County or Clermont County main public library, or contact the corps' office in Louisville regarding questions about the statement or the corps' decision to issue a construction permit for Zimmer station. On behalf of the Cincinnati Gas Electric I would like to respond to the specific questions raised by your reader: The existing lower temperature and pressure turbine designed for a nuclear steam supply system will be efficiently used in the converted Zimmer station. It will have a second "topping" turbine to utilize the high pressure and temperature steam produced by the new coal-fired steam supply system, and thereby increase the 800-megawatt output that had been planned for the nuclear version of the plant to 1,300 megawatts.

Steam is exhausted from the "topping turbine" to the existing lower pressure and temperature turbine for efficient utilization of available energy. Performance of the cooling tower for the coal-fired plant is expected to be very similar to the nuclear Zimmer. It should be noted that the cooling tower is not used to cool water to be exhausted into the Ohio River, but to cool water that is recycled into the plant. The area shown for Zimmer's flue gas desulfurization system stabilized waste storage on the map that was printed in The Enquirer is only a temporary holding site. This material will be moved after a few days to a nearby 660-acre site in Washington Township that is expected to be sufficient to accommodate all that is produced over the life of the plant.

It will be transported to the landfill by trucks over a dedicated haul road, so there will be no interference with regular traffic in the area. A bridge over U.S. 52 already exists, so there will be no crossing of the highway by the trucks. Contracts for hauling and operating the landfill will be given on a competitive-bidding basis. Since those contracts have not yet been awarded, an exact cost for this activity is not yet available.

By way of comparison, however, the cost of operating and maintaining a similar solid-waste handling system at East Bend station in Boone County, was about 0.04t per-kilowatt hour in 1986. The Corps of Engineers, which spent many months studying the proposed project, concluded that the energy to be produced by Zimmer station will be needed in this area by 1991, when the plant is expected to be in operation. The God's best I feel that I must respond to a recent letter concerning artificial insemination in which the writer actually compared it with the conception of Jesus Christ. Let me say that there was nothing artificial involved there; that indeed was a supernatural and miraculous conception. There is nothing ordinary or artificial about Jesus Christ.

If there were, he would be no different than anyone else who ever walked the face of the Earth. God cared enough to send his very best. Let's not drag him down to our level when he is the only one who can lift us up from the pit we're in. S. DONLEY 6340 Rolling Meadows Drive West Chester.

Gandhi myth Although I agree with much of what Greg Flannery said in his guest column "Time for a Pro-Life Withdrawal" (March 14), I take issue with his assertion that Mahatma Gandhi is an example Plaque to note Nixon's last hurrah How long will Mikhail last? Tony Sanilac and Tuscola counties, with the stated goal of helping James Sparling, Republican candidate for a vacant congressional seat. Although Nixon drew 25,000 people to Bad Axe alone, including some protesters, Sparling lost a few weeks later to Democrat Bob Traxler, who still represents Michigan's 8th District. Nixon resigned the presidency that August. The bronze plaque, to be placed on the Huron County Courthouse, has rekindled some resentment to ward Nixon, but was meant to honor the office of the presidency, insurance agent Gordon Gempel, one of the organizers of the 1974 visit, said Tuesday. The plaque will bear Nixon's profile and an inscription: "Richard M.

Nixon, 37th President of the United States, on April 10, 1974, and on this spot, made his last campaign appearance as president." Nixon has declined an invitation to attend the unveiling. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAD AXE, Mich. Thirteen years after Richard Nixon made the last campaign appearance of his presidency in Michigan's remote Thumb region, a plaque honoring the event will be erected at the county courthouse. The visit was widely viewed at the time as a test of his standing among voters at the height of the Watergate scandal. Nixon, trailed by a regiment of reporters, barnstormed Huron, The hot rumor out of Moscow is that Mikhail Gorbachev's enemies in the party are trying to embarrass him by circulating a clandestine videotape of his wife, Raisa.

At first I thought Raisa had made the same mistake Vanna White made submitting revealing photographs of herself as a young woman to Playboy magazine. But instead it seems Raisa was caught committing acts even more unspeakable for a Marxist-Leninist society. If the reports are true, the videotape shows scenes of Raisa loading up on high-fashion wardrobes in Paris and expensive jewelry in London and paying for it all with an American Express gold card. Pret-ty racy. This rumor immediately set Kremlinologists speculating how Gorbachev's enemies are trying to show Raisa as an extravagant, vain woman living high off the hog like a Romanov or even worse, a capitalist.

The spiciest part of this story to me is that it sounds like the dirty tricks we expect in an American political campaign. It also sounds like the Nancy-bashing that took place in Reagan's first term when the First Lady was spending almost as much as Honduras' gross national product on White House china and paying $5,000 a pop for Adolfo dresses. Kremlinologists jump from this gold-card caper of Raisa to the conclusion that Mikhail is not long for this political world. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger now gives Gorbachev no more than a 50-50 chance of staying in power for more than five years. Harvard University Sovietologist Marshall busted Soviet life wide open, or the Raisa tape would be playing on Moscow nightly news.

The beauty of glasnost may be in the eye of the beholder. Last week, Britain's Margaret Thatcher came back very high on glasnost after her meetings with Gorbachev in Moscow. The Britons call Thatcher Attila the Hen. Over in Moscow, Attila the Hen tore into Soviet "journalists" on Soviet TV and almost singlehandedly tried to expand the meaning of glasnost in Soviet society. Which seems a perfectly sensible strategy for any Western leader, no matter what happens to Gorbachev.

The United States could be doing more over there to promote glasnost. Now that we know both our old and new embassies in Moscow are bugged from basement to roof, we could reopen them as jazz joints or something and hand out free videotapes maybe even gold cards. We could also be doing heaps more from here at home. I'd love to see a lottery on how long Gorbachev will last in power. If Kissinger can give odds, why not us.

Whichever ticket names the day, month and year when Gorbachev gets the heave-ho would win. Actually a U.S. lottery might cement Gorbachev in power. Party bosses might keep him in office just to spite us. Unless they decided to pick a day to dump him and then bought the winning ticket.

Proceeds from the lottery could help fund "Star Wars." Tony Lang is a staff columnist for The Enquirer. OOivepsapy Sale cads Wednesday, April 22 nd Goldman predicts Gorbachev won't last four years. Most Russia-watchers make such predictions with a touch of ruefulness because of Gorbachev's highly popular campaign for glas-nost. These are the same Russia-watchers who have been saying all along Gorbachev will be a dangerous, formidable opponent for us because of his CEO-like executive ability, Western experience and knack for PR. Now they say he is stepping on too many toes, moving "too fast" and offending powerful party officials and workers with pay reductions tied to worker output.

They claim he is afraid to leave the country on state visits. "Glasnost" is typically translated in the Western press as "openness," but a Russian expert tells, me the more precise meaning is. "doing things in public," which, emphasizes the objective of Gorbachev's campaign against a corrupt bureaucracy. President Reagan, you recall, also campaigned to kill off whole federal bureaucracies. Those Washington agencies are all still there, some fatter than ever.

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like baby-selling, ought to be outlawed. Oh, I've heard the line that a woman ought to be as free to rent her body as a man is to sell his sperm. The two things are not comparable. Men can deliver sperm with less emotion than they show delivering urine specimens. No male ever bonded with a vial of sperm the way surrogate mothers bond with their babies.

Legislatures and the Congress ought to move immediately to ensure it is not "contract law," or "adoption law," but simply criminal law that applies to these cases of surrogate motherhood. 1 (JGL Fast Plus rk a SAVl UK) -3 Ibe. I BOCA RATON, In between some long bouts with my word processor, I have been doing a lot of thinking about Judge Harvey R. Sorkow's decision in the Baby case. No matter how I look at it, I don't like it.

Not that I ever imagined the biological mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, would be given the child. The baby, now named Melissa, was in the custody of the biological father, William Stern, and his wife Elizabeth, and even where human beings are concerned, possession is a huge part of the law. Then there was the propaganda factor. Whitehead was doomed once it was revealed that in her anguish or whatever she threatened to harm the baby if she did not get her back. But it is not this particular baby or this pprticular case that disturbs me.

It is what it portends in terms of general law about an unsavory thing called surrogate motherhood that makes me hope the appeals courts will declare that Sorkow did not, because he could not, legalize the business of buying a womb for $10,000 or any amount of money. On the one hand, we hear that Sorkow made a decision based on "contract law." Mary Beth Whitehead signed a piece of paper, and she was stuck with the deal. But wait a minute! No rich person, desperate to be a parent, can go out and buy a baby. One Values to $29.99. Over 9,000 quality frames to choose from.

Variety of sizes and styles. cannot legally meet a teen-ager with swollen belly at First and Main Streets and say, "I'll pay you $10,000 for the right to adopt your baby." An unmarried 16-year-old who has every intention of putting a baby up for adoption so as to free herself for the future is given a chance to change her mind once she snuggles up to her child. If a surrogate mother does not have a chance to change her mind because she has signed a $10,000 contract, then we have a case of womb-renting and baby-buying, no matter what big words like "surrogate" are attached to the deal. But, some say, Judge Sorkow didn't really make the Baby decision on the basis of contract law. His fundamental decision was on the basis of adoption law that is, what is best for the child.

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