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1972 The Christian Science Publishing Society It's Panda-Monium Time All Over By JO ANN LEVINE The Christian Science Monitor News Service NEW YORK, Y. are playful and reports the New York Public Library. it adds, very important for a stuffed By the time the live pandas from China arrive next month, at the Washington National Zoo, they will have been preceded by a padded army of puffy pandas which eager toy manufacturers are turning out like donuts. A few days ago, F.A.O, Schwarz announced in a newspaper advertisement zoo got the pandas (On the next page, its own panda population.) By the end of the day, had sold out of pandas and had to flv in more from California. Pandas are so popular, the toy store reports, that many people bought them at time instead of bunny rabbits.

-Now the store is displaying: a panda rug. a panda pajama case, a panda puppet, and a porpoise-looking grandpa panda ($125) that can be sat upon. One can even save $4 by adopting a panda family (mamma, papa, and baby) for $34.95. closed out its panda collection in 1971 because of lack of interest. In the past month, the store reports, it has sold more pandas than it did in all of 1970.

At the major panda grouping is next to Oscar the Grouch and the Cookie Monster. At the American Museum of Natural History a pair of mounted pandas lives amid leopards, Asian elephants, one sambar, and some sloths. And there they have been since 1930. reports the museum, either a bear-like member of the raccoon family, or a raccoon-like member of the hear family Scientists are not really sure of the of the giant panda, which is too and about the size of a black bear. The pandas at the museum have always been popular.

And although they are picking up in popularity, the museum definitely refrains from fads and is not installing a sign that says the Although the museum pandas have to be fed twice a day on things like 40 stalks of bamboo, cereal, honey, evaporated milk, and vitamins, they are in a natural setting similar to their Chinese homeland surroundings. Outside, in the world of commerce, some novelty jewelry companies are busy molding panda pins, anticipating a further wave of panda buying. But along Fifth Avenue the panda hunter is in trouble. Aside from the giant $325 panda in the window of Bergdorf-Goodman, which belongs to across the street, the leading stores on the avenue show no signs of promoting pandas. Saks Fifth Avenue sees very few pandas in its future, GOP Convention Committee Admits San Diego Problems WASHINGTON committee planning this GOP National Convention in San Diego today admitted it has been having some problems, but gave no indication it plans to move the event to another city.

The suggestion that such a move might be wise came from Robert F. Knowles, who is coordinating this Republican meeting just as he did in 1968. In a letter to Dick Herman, national committeeman from Nebraska and vice chairman of the convention arrangements committee. Knowles said escalating costs and construction problems, including contract disputes with labor unions, were presenting difficulties. He said: all of our problems together, some of which we may never solve, I have come to one believe that if there is any way at this Seat Assignments Tomorrow Morning Ticket holders who have not made reservations for the Marin Symphony children's concerts are urged to come to San Rafael High School tomorrow to be fitted into the schedule, according to Mrs.

Robert L. Schultz, symphony association manager. Six concerts will be held to- morrow, beginning at 8:45 a.m. June 3 concert reservations are closed. point to change the convention city, you should give it every my opinion, there is an extremely high risk that the opening gavel will not fall on Aug.

21 in San Diego, and I therefore urge you to give every consideration to encouraging the powers that be to move the convention to another Herman, however, issued a statement saying have been aware lor a considerable period of time of the problems enumerated in the memorandum as well as other problems of which he may not be But he added, have been working to correct them, and are continuing our preparations for the opening of the convention in the city of San In addition to fresh endorsement of San Diego, it was known that President Nixon favored the city, thus making a switch at this late hour somewhat unlikely. Some ob servers also felt that comments may have been de signed to spotlight his problems in an effort to solve some of them through public pressure. Knowles said the company handling the convention hall told him it would cost thousands of dollars in overtime to complete the arrangements with no assurance the project would I finished on time. He also said in the letter dated March 30, that negotiations tween craft unions and contractors had broken down. At the time GOP leaders were considering bids of various cities for the convention last July, it was widely reported that Nixon favored San Diego.

But National Chairman Robert Dole said Thursday night that San Diego was not No. 1 choice at the time. In an interview on the public television network, Dole said, President wanted to go to the Midwest. In fact, I checked out Kansas City, quietly for the President. I think we may have gone to Chicago had Mayor (Richard Daly showed any real Dole said he also made some about the possibility of the convention going to Denver.

Dole said eager California political led the campaign to get the convention located in San Diego. and sees none at all. Of course already has one panda but it is definitely not for the masses. It is a black and white enameled pin designed by Donald C. Klaf- Jin costing $4,900 diamonds and all.

One store on the avenue that missed out on the first wave of panda popularity is Lord Taylor. The store says it is glad it. waited because now it expects to have of the most beautiful and well-made pandas on the Federal safety regulations, said a store spokesman, require that the bows on andas be double-knotted. The eyes of the bear have to be in such a way that the child cannot remove them. And no felt can be used on the animal because the child might swallow it.

Eden Toy, manufacturers of IX)rd pandas, says it has not only made a better panda but that it has always made superior stuffed animals. The Guild Manufacturing which got on the pandawagon early, is making the toy 20 hours a day. The company didn't design new pandas; it merely pulled out some panda dies that had been stored in its die archives 20 or 30 years. Guild declined to name the New York and Chicago banks that are using its pandas to lure people into opening new accounts. Might pandas supersede the smile button in popularity? One manufacturer think so.

problems are much more he explained. Another added. teddy bears are still outselling pandas 10 to Still another manufacturer said, think the panda thing has been slightly overdone. The stores have gone after it as a possible item to feature like a miniskirt or anything else, if stores can create a fad, it is in their obvious interest to do A final call to a pandamaker conjured up a new image of pandas. The question you tell me about your brought the reply.

They are all out to The Christian Science Publishing Society By HARRY ELLIS The Christian Science Monitor News Service HEIDELBERG, Germany- By every yardstick the United States Seventh Army in Germany appears to have turned a corner and begun to have climbed out of the doldrums that threatened it as a fighting force. A reporter still finds plenty of soldiers, black and white, who complain bitterly about discrimination, poor housing, boredom, violence, and the fear of violence. These conditions still exist. But a start has been made toward eliminating them and this knowledge is percolating among the lower ranks. small things as well as said Maj.

Franklin R. Dillard, a black officer. recently the wife of a black soldier could not get her hair styled in a PX. Now black hairdressers are beginning to Gen. Michael S.

Davison, commander of the Seventh Army since May, 1971, takes a broader view. now have twice the money for training that we had in fiscal 1971. the winding down of declared the tall West Pointer, Seventh Army now gets priority in allocation of men, money, and As a result has lessened. Men are not sent to the motor pool to give their jeeps an extra polish. remarked a Signal Corps officer, men are learning how to soldier.

he continued, to set up their radios in mock tests on rooftops. Now they go out in the field for real Tanks have been taken off blocks and manned with crews. Experienced noncoms and junior officers no longer are whisked off for duty in Vietnam. leaving green second lieutenants in uneasy command of re bel 1 i ous com pa nies. captain now stays at least a year with his stressed General Davison.

and brigade commanders remain 18 months. They get to know every man in their For the first time in years the Seventh Army is up to strength per eet of our authorized 185,000 according to the general, who also heads the United States Army, Europe. field declared Maj. Gen. Frederic E.

Davison, Seventh Army chief of personnel, interest and engagement for the soldier. less boredom and Currently the Seventh Army is in the throes of the separation of draftees who have only a few months left to serve. This program helps to weed out malcontents, but also strips units of some needed men. This confusion, it is hoped, will be temporary. is no stated one unit commander, the Seventh Army, as a fighting force, is on its way back from the sad state of the past few This consensus is widely shared and opens the way to WE RENT ROTO TILLERS HOME REPAIR TOOLS CONTRACTORS EQUIPMENT SKI EQUIPMENT CAMPING EQUIPMENT Cosmic Circle Fellowship, Inc.

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months ago." remarked Gen. Michael Davison, dissident organizations could turn out 1,500 soldiers for a demonstration. By last summer it was only 500. Now it is perhaps 150 or 160. year and a half he went on, 15 militant black organizaitons were operating in the Seventh Army area.

Now we are down to 3 or 4. he added, is not simply the result of mergers. Total membership is the Fifth Corps declared Major Dillard, equal- opportunity officer of the cgrps, are no identified unauthorized black groups now active, as there were in 1970. There are, however, authorized black discussion Why this decline in militancy? replied Gen. Michael Davison, the black soldier is beginning to believe that we really mean to eliminate discrimination.

He is more ready to give us a human relations programs have begun to answered Major Dillard. Fifth Corps officers, by direction of corps commander Lt. Gen. Willard Pearson, attend leadership seminars on black-white relations. A touring road show called Are You alling travels the Fifth orps route and hits hard at racial attitudes black or white.

Off-duty athletics are encouraged. So is stock-car racing on vSeventh Army tracks. was given credit by Gen. Frederic Davison, the highest ranking black officer in the U.S. Army.

Small groups of men, perhaps a squad in strength, are allowed to develop projects perhaps shooting rapids on a brawling German stream, or learning to ski and perform them as a team. Gen. Frederic Davison described one group, which had set off for a week of living, supplied with 70 cents per day per man: squad sergeant was said General Davison, corpogal was black. The men were divided, black and white. One black soldier sat quietly while the others told me of their experience.

He had an Afro haircut and shades (dark glasses) on his eyes. I figured him for hostile. continued the general, piped up. know, I always used to think this white squad sergeant was a lousy so-and-so. But you know what he did, general? He gave me some of his money, because I was too stupid to save General Davison studied him.

would you he asked, you came out of a barracks and saw some of your black brothers beating up on this white be on his replied the soldier promptly. you have been asked the general. said the soldier, have beaten up on him thing, added the black soldier, when the meeting was over, have to worry' about any of us taking drugs. a A small incident, conceded General Davison in our talk.But one among many, he was convinced, as the Seventh multiform human relations programs continued to build. One result of lessened racial tension is a decline in the number of violent crimes murder.

rape, robbery, and assault committed by soldiers of the Seventh Army. 18 observed Gen. Michael Davison, had a steady increase in the number of violent crimes, peaking in July, 1971. SInceqthen there has been a five-month decline, despite an occasional Major Dillard confirmed that, in the Fifth Corps area, the last three months have shown a decline in racial violence. But he hestiated to call this a trend, since little incident can touch something High in the I.G.

Farben building of Frankfurt sits DCCol. Anthony R. Libonati, pwost marshal, or chief policeiflai) of the Fifth Corps, one of the two corps which make up theTSev- enth Army. Statistics, said Colonel Libonati, can be misleading. Seventy to 80 per cent of all assault cases in his corls were by black soldiers on whites, though blacks make up only 16 to 17 per cent of Fifth Corps the colonel explained.

to go out in groups. So one incident can show 10 or 15 black soldiers involved and only one White. This shoots vour statistics sky The colonel was encouraged that the last six months the number of group incidents has been consistently down. Group crimes have a racial he emphasized. human-relations program has made so much progress that the racial element is draining out of About 50 per cent of all crimes of violence in the Fifth Corps are drug related, according to Colonel Libonati.

divide roughly equally between alcohol and illegal Wide-ranging talks with officers and men of the Seventh Army indicate that drugs are coming to the fore as a problem, while racial incidents are beginning to recede. per cent of the men have experimented with drugs other than asserted a Fifth Corps chaplain, Capt. John C. Britcher. into a barracks unannounced and you may find 55 per cent of the men smoking first thing said Gen.

Michael Davison, an information program. We have two target audiences. One is the older officer and noncom the man wyo says that a boy on drugs should be arrestedcpr thrown out of the Such a man, added the Seventh Army commander, no sense of involvement with the drug-taker as an individual with a The second target, the general said, is the young soldier himself, who in the past often accused the Army of pushing false drug information. impeccable honesty in talking to young is the standard now required by General Davison..