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1 B8 S.F. EXAMINER rft Sept. 27, 1983 West German Greens party member Petra Kelly: 'Knowledge Is the most important weapon we have In this movement' i i i I 1 1 1 New of series 1 A i 4. 1 Tte wortdng fran I' within ExminerNicoM Bsngiveno By Mildred Hamilton and Don Lattin Examiner staff writers "IIIIE SLENDER, elfin-featured 4 galaxy THREE NEW PLANETS came on orbit in the solar system that is the fall season last night, differing no less than Mars, Planet and Earth. Mars, as we all know, symbolized both lust and war to the early Greeks and Romans.

We'll assign this symbolic designation to "Emerald Point, N.A.S." on CBS which, judging by periodic switchovers during commercials elsewhere, seems to have plenty of the first and hints of the second. We'll deal with that in a later column. Now to Planet representing the unknown quantity in our solar system summation. This would be "AfterMASH," the much-awaited sequel to that other show that had Alan Alda in it. "AfterMASH" is good but it doesnt live up to Its breeding.

This is not cause for despair, since no infant gives strong hints of its adult qualities, but rather a cautionary warning. "AfterMASH" reunites "MASH's" Col. Potter (Henry Morgan), Sgt Klinger (Jamie Farr) and Father Mulcahey (William Christopher) in a VA hospital following the Korean War. What I liked best about last night's premiere was the theme song, which began with the familiar "MASH" refrain (titled "Suicide Is and segued into easy jazz symbolizing the shift from war to peace. A quick synopsis: Potter goes home to Mildred, becomes quickly bored, looks for work at the hospital and is named chief of staff.

Klinger has been busted for working in a bookie joint, but gets off the hook by becoming Potter's clerk. Mulcahey rendered deaf in the final "MASH" episode has taken to the bottle. Potter arranges for surgery to correct the situation, then brings him aboard. So far so good. What "AfterMASH" has going for it is great lines, substantial social perspectives and a fairly decent premise.

What the opening episode lacked was a sense of continuity, timing and plot development. It all happened too quickly and it seemed jerky, as though each segment between commercials was developed by a different creative team. Yet this series is ripe with potential. Let's make a bet that last night's flaws will be corrected and quickly by the gang that makes it (the same geniuses who dreamed up and that Planet will stay in the system for some time to come. woman in a pastel-stnpea sweater and white pants enters the room, and her aura of exhaustion soon gives way before a blaze in her dark gray eyes Martha Kremer, Kelly's personal assist-ant who is traveling with her, said, Tetra always works until she drops.

She is in the United States for two weeks with her cry to stop the arms race." Meetings with State Department officials "instead of the session she wanted to have with the president" a joyous homecoming at American University, lectures before foreign relations groups in New York, two days of disarmament talks in Los Angeles and a day with her mother, stepfather and brother in Newport News, Va, are crammed into her schedule. Kelly returns to Bonn next week, and "will speak immediately on American reaction. If there is a chance to speak in Parliament, shell grab it You cant stop her," Kremer said. Only her frail health slows her down. Kelly has only one kidney and has been hospitalized from exhaustion several times, A vitamin-munching, non-smoker, non-drinker, she once said, "I have no private life.

I am almost married to the Greens." Her home is now a Bonn apartment but the nerve center is her Bundestag office, which has a poster parody of "Gone With the Wind" on the door. Instead of Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, it shows Reagan carrying Margaret Thatcher out of flames. Behind them in a mushroom smoke cloud is this The Last of All Films Now Showing Worldwide." Parliament is in session, and Kelly's absences are costing her the $30 per diem pay. Her term is for four years, and, under Greens' policy, she will then step down in favor of another party member. "I've been in politics all my life, and I will continue, whether in or out of ment," she says.

Some of her energy will continue to go to rid the Greens of sexism. "It is a world-wide problem, not just the Greens. Our guidelines call for 50 percent of all political posts to be filled by women. The only way we can get equality, however, is to have men give up positions." incredibly." It become part of the Greens concept of non-violent action. Her anti-nuclear vow has a personal link.

In 1970 her 10-year-old sister "died of eye cancer and overdoses of radiation treatment This is my personal tragedy, but it is the world's tragedy, too." Kelly, who went to Amsterdam to study and then to work at the European Community headquarters in Brussels, soon set up a cancer research project This opposition to radiation in any form led her into the peace movement She went to Hiroshima. "I've seen the victims in the hospitals. All the victims I spoke with were being treated 30 years later by Japan as non-persons, as second-class citizens. The most incredible sight was when I asked a Hiroshima doctor what treatment the people were receiving. He led me into a big room with very modern radiation equipment, and I realized that atomic victims were radiated to socall 'heal' them.

For me, the cycle was complete. The civilian nuclear industry and the medical industry were able to profit from all of the death, dying and illness of nuclear war." In her work to organize the Greens, she often was attacked for "lies about the hazards of the chemical industry and low-level radiation" and their link to the peace movement This only strengthened my feeling that we were on the right path. It leads to commitment when you realize that there is so much corruption and you can do so much to uncover it It only takes a few people to expose an entire government, to expose what is going on. That gave me a lot of hope. Knowledge is the most important weapon we have in this movement." Kelly spoke in San Francisco Sunday at a Meeting of the Ways peace rally at Fort Mason and last night appeared before an overflow crowd at Berkeley High School, sponsored by East Bay Women for Peace, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (East Bay) and Bay Area Women's Party for Survival.

like to see a peace-movement candidate arise. The Greens grew out of the pressure of these groups in Germany. Now the party is spreading through Europe, into the Third World, and some positions of the American Citizens' Party are close to ours." She works her way through the tangle of "how many missiles on the head of a pin" questions at the Press Club news conference, and keeps returning to her goal: "No military, no conventional weapons. We want a social defense that is not concerned with borders but with ideas." The young political leader, whose inspirations are Gandhi and Martin Luther King attained the respectability of a Parliament seat in March after enduring years of harassment, arrests, demonstrations and being called a Communist dupe. When the grassroots, pacifist Greens won 26 seats in Parliament, it was a milestone in a personal commitment going back to her teens.

She talks about her early life with strong feeling. Kelly's parents, a German mother and Polish father, were divorced when she was small. "1 was raised by strong women my mother, and my grandmother, now 78, women who rebuilt Germany on their' own." Her early years were in a Catholic girls school in Bavaria, and she decided, "I would either become a nun in a Third World mission or a politician." Then her mother married ah American Army officer, and Kelly spent the next 10 years in this country, earning a political science degree at American University's School of International Service, She went to lectures by Henry Kissinger and Walt Rostow, she volunteered to work for Hubert Humphrey and Bobby Kennedy, and she marched in front of the White House in anti-Vietnam demonstrations. "I will never forget one scene at a demonstration during the Christmas bombings. I saw American policemen leave their line, cross the White House fence and come into the midst of the demonstrators, showing the peace sign.

That impressed me and an intensity in her compelling voice. Petra Kelly, at 35 the leader of West Germany's Greens peace party, is spreading her disarmament message in California this week ui her cross-country appeal to 6top (he December deployment in her country of American Pershing 2 and cruise missiles. During two major speeches and a news conference in the Bay Area, her reputation as the woman "who can turn on millions to stand Up for peace" comes clear in surges of emotion from time to time. Gert Bastian, the West German general who resigned to join the Greens and who serves with Kelly in the Bonn Parliament, shares the dedication and the platforms with her. "Seventy-five percent of the German population has said it does not want deployment of the Pershing missile," Kelly says.

"We have 5 million signatures opposing it, names it took us two and one-half years to collect. But to prevent deployment, we must occupy all the missile sites, and we don't have the strength. "We can't stop it. One week of nonviolent civil disobedience won't do it." Nonetheless, she promises, the campaign will continue with its strategy of relentless non-violence. Kelly is skeptical about President Reagan's offer yesterday at the United Nations to reduce missiles, expects "no miracle" at the Geneva disarmament talks, but repeats and repeats her message of the importance of pressure.

"We want the pressure from the peace movement in the United States that is a coalition of civil rights, women, ecology. I'd ARTH IS WHERE we all live, an idealized place at times, a habitat we tend to believe has changed and we wish it hadn't. The Earth of our early recollections comes to us in the form of "Boone," a moving image of an era that passed so recently and so long ago. "Boone" has a familiar feel about it, something like "The Waltons." So we should not be surprised to hear that "Waltons" producer Earl Hamner is behind this attractive tale of a young man growing up in early-1950s Tennessee. The title character, Sawyer Boone, is played by Greg Webb, who's done nothing particular to attract our attention before taking this role.

Boone is suspended between youth and adulthood. More to the point, he's trapped in the void created when you want to make one thing out of your life and your parents have something quite different in mind. Boone's mom Faye (Elizabeth Huddle) thinks it would be nice if her son entered the ministry, presumably Baptist His dad Merit (Barry Corbin, who may be recognized from "War would rather see him take up a good solid trade like mechanics. Boone has something more esoteric in mind. He wants to be a country-western singer.

To that end, he crashes bars (though he's under-age) and, in the opener, gets arrested at a gambling joint because he went there for music lessons. Really. Boone's mentor is Uncle Link, otherwise known as Mr. Sawyer, an elderly black man who understands his need to pick and sing. In this role, William Edward Phipps is beautiful.

But don't get too attached to the character (this is a cryptic hint upon which I will not elaborate). In last night's debut, Boone found himself dealing with the fact that his brother Dwight had died in World War II and his father, though not intentionally, was making comparisons and finding Boone a little shy of his fantasized recollections of the other son. Boone, through his music, helped his dad accept the reality that Dwight was dead. It was a lovely scene. "Boone" Is shamelessly sentimental, but its emotional content is raw, strong and honest, with nary a hint of flowers or violins.

This program has depth, power and beauty. It should become a habit for most Americans. As a sidenote, I'll add that "Boone" presents an interesting perspective on contemporary music. It is set in a time when many genres country, blues and gospel were coalescing to become what we hear today. The roots of rock'n'roll, in their multiracial aspects, are presented rather matter-of-factly.

Watching "Boone" is not only excellent entertainment, but enlightening as well. All in all, "Boone" is a fine example of what television should be. It's a series to be treasured. IMurphystev By Paul Dickson Special to The Examiner HE MURPHY CENTER for the Codification of Human and Organizational Law, founded in 1976 and housed today in an impressive collection of shoeboxes, has become an international clearinghouse fpr information on how the world really operates. During its Accounting, The Four Laws of: (1) Trial balances don't (2) Working capital doesn't.

(3) Liquidity tends to run out. (4) Return on investments never will. Ackley's Second Axiom: Familiarity breeds attempt. BobAckley ACW's Theorems of Practical Physics. (1) When reading a magazine story, it is always continued on an unnumbered page usually in the middle of the special advertising section.

(2) The value of an object is inversely proportional to the security of its packaging. (3) The volume times the frequency of the neighboring dog's bark is inversely proportional to the intelligence of its owner. Ashley C. Worsley Amis' Admonition: You can't believe anyone but yourself and don't trust yourself too completely. Jim Amis Barbara's Fashion Observation: Permanent press isn't.

Barbara Mehlman Bartol's Observation: If the bottom falls out, you can rest assured that the sides will tumble down on top of you. Karen Marie Bartol Berla's Version: If you file it, you'll never need it. If you need it, you never file it. Michael Berla Beste's "Rose By Any Other Name" Principle: The more the name of a product promises, the less it delivers. Ian Beste Bcttman's Revision: History does not repeat itself; Scene Ins historians simply repeat each other.

Otto Bettman Bishop's Law: The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is. Unknown, from Sidney Gross Bob's Rule of Grammar: Double negatives are a no-no. Bob Johnston Brecht's Reminder: As a grown man you should know better than to go around advising people. Bertolt Brecht, from Bernard L. Alpert Briggs' Restaurant Rule: The Seafood is always fresh, even in Arizona.

Thomas E. Briggs Brooks' Observation: If it's not one thing, it's the same thing. Wally Brooks, from E.C. Pesterfield Brother Roy Smith's Observation: At banquets the microphone is always too short for tall people and too tall for short people. Also, the microphone whistles and hums louder the closer it is to time for the main speaker to address the audience.

Brother Roy Smith, C5.C. Byars By-Law: Never work for a boss who opens the company mail. Betty Jo Byars Cagle's Law of Interest: The more interesting the activity you are engaged in, the more urgent will be the situation that eventually takes you away from it. David B. Cagle See Page BIO, col.

1 seven years, the center has received more than 6,000 letters from people in all walks of life who have discovered some elements of revealed truth, which they have properly stated, named and forwarded to the center's director. What is remarkable about all of this is that the director offhandedly started the center as a vehicle to collect enough rules and laws for a book. He fully expected it to last for a few months at best. However, the center proved to have a life of its own, and there are still days in which it gets a dozen pieces of mail. The letters are fascinating and address themselves to every subject imaginable.

They have ranged in length from a one-line note that advised, "Never try to be nice to a man with a tattoo on his face," to a handwritten letter of 125 pages containing the major lessons of life learned by an elderly gentleman from the state of Washington. The center gets Christmas cards, job applications and long essays on the behavior of the wheels on supermarket shopping carts, and it was once peremptorily turned down for a grant from a philanthropic foundation from which it had not sought any money in the first place. What follows is a healthy sampling of what has come into the center in the last year. HOW MUCH is a name worth? When it's an autograph, a lot. Page B11.

ACTING YOUR age is only relative. Page B1 1. BEA PIXA goes Out to Lunch at a fine restaurant on Folsom Street. Page B12. Inside Arts "CAGNEY LACEY," has been revived, and now the stars are making demands, reports Marilyn Beck.

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