Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, February 7, 1992 TAG: 9202070313
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PEOPLE
What do you give a former president who has everything?Jack O. Koehler found just the right birthday gift for his old boss Ronald Reagan, who turned 81 on Thursday: a 90-page top-secret file on Reagan compiled by the KGB, Cuban intelligence and STASI, the East Germany secret police.
The gray loose-leaf folder, delivered to Reagan on Wednesday at his office in Beverly Hills, Calif., shows that the communist nations took his rhetoric seriously and possibly were intimidated by him, said Koehler, former White House director of communications. For example, one KGB report said Reagan strives to be a "firm and unbending politician for whom words and deeds are the same," Koehler said.
Paul Reubens, the actor who portrays Pee-wee Herman, has produced an anti-drug video to fulfill a community service requirement in his plea bargain on indecent-exposure charges, his probation officer in Sarasota, Fla., said.
The 30-second animated video has been viewed by Sarasota County Judge Judy Goldman, who ordered Reubens to produce the spot and pay $135 in fines and court costs, said Salvation Army corrections officer Pat McCabe. "It's very enjoyable," McCabe said. "It's extremely well done."
Rosa Parks, whose defiance led to the fall of segregated public buses in Alabama, delivered her message of equality at a benefit to celebrate her 79th birthday.
"I am still active and working diligently in every way I know to make our lives meaningful," she told more than 1,000 people Tuesday night in San Diego. "I'm working toward the goal of freedom we still are seeking."
Parks, who helped spark the modern civil-rights movement nearly 40 years ago by refusing to give up her bus seat for a white man, acknowledged that progress has been made but said more work remains.
Parks, whose birthday was Tuesday, lives in Detroit. Her autobiography, "Rosa Parks: My Story," is being published this week.