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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1996 The Palm Beach Post sl SECTION COMING UP What may look like a microbrew beer may actually have been produced by one of the major brewing companies. THURSDAY IN FOOD INSIDE OLYMPIC GUIDE Learn more about cycling and baseball at the Summer PAGE 4D MartinSt. Lucie County Living ACCENT A pill not be taken lightly, RU-486 is coming Population Council will not say who will manufacture the pills. -f Supporters of the pill say the medical argu- ments against it are baseless, that mifepristone the medical name for RU486 has been proven safe in clinical trials in France, v' "There's a lot of data from French studies showing it's safe and effective," says Vicki Sa-porta, executive director of the New York-based National Abortion Federation, a consortium of abortion providers. "There's no reason it should not be approved." i Mifepristone will join an already available chemical abortion that doctors have been quietly By CAROLYN SUSMAN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer In two months, the controversial abortion pill RU-486 should get final government approval.

By November, it could be in South Florida. Pro-choice advocates hail it as a victory and abortion opponents decry it as a further erosion of respect for life. But the doctors who will prescribe it want you to know that after the emotion and rhetoric and politics die down, this little pill is not to be taken lightly. Able to induce an abortion within 48 hours, RU-486 has long been available in Europe. Political pressures, advocates say, have kept it out of this country.

And the National Right-to-Life Committee isn't letting up, even though the drug has been found safe by an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "Women's lives, health, and safety are being put at risk," says Olivia Gans, spokesman for the Right-to-Life. "We're being treated as guinea pigs. The objective (in approving the drug) is not the safety of women, but to further radical abortion techniques, so that more abortions are being performed." Word is circulating in pro-choice circles that anti-abortion activists will attempt some last-minute legislative or legal maneuver to stop distribution of the pill, but another Right-to-Life spokeswoman said she didn't know of any.

Fearing violence, the nonprofit agency that holds the rights to the drug in this country the Please see RU-4864D Support group helps amputees rise and shine She played in film studio orchestras, was married to composer Max Steiner and knew everybody from David 0. Selznick to Toscanini. At 90, Louise Elian doesn't like the word Louise Steiner Elian was married for a decade to Max Steiner, the great composer and progenitor of film music. Renee Roulo greeted each one of the seven amputees as they arrived at the first meeting of the Amputee Support Group last Wednesday in Stuart. "We're leg-mates," she said to one man, as she compared her prosthesis with his.

"I'm a Roulo said, meaning her left leg was amputated below the knee, i "That's not to be confused with a bologna," 0 she warned. By the graceful way Roulo walks, it is hard to tell she has an artificial limb. "I do more things now than I did before," she said. Like skiing. Snorkel-ing.

Golf. "When this happens to you, it makes you appreciate things. It's like you almost died, but you didn't die," she said. lii- Hi' III VX I IMhiktr Jem Butler 'u i Roulo, who lives on Hutchinson Island, lost her leg as the result of a motorcvcle accident in Okeechobee in 1994. Tr fUrt otmrtj- rtvrMr mof lief at 1 A rv, I i i 1 I I i 1 it ill! the Stuart Nursing and Restorative Care Censor ch trauplpH tn FMrav Rparh fnr a Hnsp of )iv i i fan encouragement from other amputees.

"Maybe this is a springboard," she said about the group she and Debbie Edwards i 'I' 1 I I i 0 fotthe Nursing Care Center. I The group will meet at 2 p.m. on the last Wednesday of the month in the activities room at the center at 1500 S.E. Palm Beach Road in Stuart. It will have special programs, plan social events, share information and experiences and answer questions, such as, "Can you paint the toenails on your prosthesis?" Sure, j- "I just took my leg to the lady at the shop who does nails and said, 'Here, would you do ifcy Roulo said.

For information, call Roulo at 334-3409 or v' i yt i'l 1 1 II Edwards at 286-8336. For information from the United Amputee A IT AC A Prt Rnv 4977 pel vices wine i i L-I Q07Q1 MARK MIRKOStaff Photographer Name a great movie from the '30s or '40s, and harpist Louise Steiner Elian helped make the music that formed much of its texture. Her music Can be heard on many soundtracks, including King Kong, Gone With the Wind and the AstaireRogers musicals. To share your news about people or events on the Treasure Coast, calljeri at 223-3552 or write her at The Palm Beach Post, 2101 S. Kanner A JL Jk Highway, Stuart, FL 34994.

Include any photos. Hollywood Melody I 1 I' fe'. most notably, in Hollywood studio orchestras. You can hear Elian on the soundtracks of King Kong, The Informer, Gone With the Wind, Modern Times, The Sea Hawk, the AstaireRogers musicals, Thief of Bagdad, That Hamilton Woman and The Jungle Book. Basically, name a great movie from the '30s or '40s, and she was helping make the music that formed much of its texture.

And for a decade, she was married to Max Steiner, the great composer and progenitor of the art and craft of film music. It's an interesting life to be encapsulated in a tidy little house in West Palm Beach. "I still get calls to play," she says. "I just can't Please see STEINER4D By SCOTT EYMAN Palm Beach Post Arts Writer WEST PALM BEACH It can't be. It must be a misprint.

According to the calendar, Louise Klos Steiner Elian was born in 1906, which would make her 90! But from the vigor of her step, and the incisiveness of her intelligence, well, it's just not possible. There are people born in 1966 who don't have this much on the ball. Not that she pays her vitality any notice; she's not the sort of woman who thinks you should get attention for breathing. It's accomplishment, not existence, that merits notice, and on that basis, Louise Steiner Elian rates highly. She made her living as a harpist for more than 70 years, playing in symphonies, for ballet and, Renee Roulo said she does better on one ski with outriggers than she did on two skis.

Back home in Georgia, ET's Julie Moran isn't sweating the Olympic competition rousted from the room. She loves her job, but adds, "It's not near as glamorous as you think. I've put on eyeliner in stadium bathrooms with no mirror. I've tried to wear a blazer to do an anchor shot and it's 110 and you're sweating and you've got Kleenex stuffed down your shirt." She laughs, sips some water and says, "People just see that nice, pretty shot. 'Oh, she talked to They have no idea the fight to get him, the preparation to make sure he and I have a moment alone to talk." "I grew up in south Georgia so I'm pretty much used to this heat," she says.

"I always have some powder, get the shine off the nose, that's important. The powder, any kind, soaks up the sweat." She'll be reporting and weekend hosting for ET from Atlanta through Saturday. With 12-14 hour days planned for ET, Moran says she might not even get to see family in Thomasville. Mom, Barbara Dixon, a former English teacher is there. Dad, Paul Bryan, owns several lumber companies where her brother, Duke, also works.

Undaunted and dry, Moran's already locked Schwarzenegger into an interview that will happen after the media rabble is After jobs at CBS, ESPN, NBC (Inside Stuff) and ABC (Wide World of Sports), she moves through the Olympics getting as many autograph requests and "Can-I-have-my-picture-taken-with-you-please?" as the people she covers. It happens three times while she's sitting in a third-floor room at Planet Hollywood. She's the calm in the center of a sweating swarm of TV reporters, VIP guests and hangers-on, all waiting for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is waiting for Mayor Bill Campbell, Everyone's sipping plastic water bottles and Moran's the only thing in the room not sweating. What's her secret? By PAUL LOMARTIRE Palm Beach Post Television Writer ATLANTA How to keep up with Julie Moran as she works the Olympics for Entertainment Tonight? "There was the TWA jet, Shaq went to the Lakers and the Blues Brothers rehearsal in one day," she says. "Was that Thursday or Friday?" In the swollen and saturated world of entertainment reporting, the Thomasville, native is a star.

A steady stream of magazine cover stories have followed the University of Georgia grad after being anointed by People last year as one of the 50 most beautiful people. Please see M0RAN3D JuNe Moran 4.