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IS ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 1 I I XI Growing Up At Grant's Farm Page 3 'Presidential' Gregory Peck Page 7 Jerry Berger Stardust V(LQfD 4 i C' The 'Steel Butterfly' Discusses Her Celibacy And The Legend Of Clark Gable And'Daughter' 00i00 Marty Pasetta Di-ab-o-lism 1. supposed dealings with the Devil or devils, as by sorcery or witchcraft 2. belief in or worship of the Devil or devils 3. diabolical action or behavior 4. the character or condition of the Devil or a devil Webster's New World Dictionary I HEN NBC-TV BROADCAST its "Christmas Eve" drama late last year, it was Oscar-winning Loretta Young's first role since retirement in the early 1960s.

The A Glimmer Of Hollywood Coming To Our VP Fair HOLLYWOOD'S Marty Pasetta is the executive producer of ABC-TV's broadcast coverage of our town's Veiled Prophet Fair. "It'll be a mind blower because we'll be splitting all attention between liberty and literacy," the themes of the show, Pasetta says. Pasetta has a reputation for using untried approaches, and one of those will be shooting the VP Fair action on July 3, using 14 cameras and four helicopters. Then Pasetta will be taken by chartered jet to New York City, where he will supervise the editing of video tape for the July 4 broadcast. He says he's pleased with the choice of Oprah Winfrey as host of the special, with an assist from Charles Gibson of "Good Morning America." But after a few inquiries about St.

Louis' humidity, Pasetta says, "Oprah may find it tough to keep her hair up." Pasetta handled last year's Martin Luther King birthday celebrations from New York, Washington and Atlanta; he also did the inaugural parties for Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and the triple crown of entertainment the Oscar, the Emmy and the Grammy telecasts. Most of his specials have garnered high ratings and reaped big earnings for the networks, but he notes that "July Fourth is traditionally the least-viewed evening of the entire year. We're not doing a high-priced show, and ABC is Just looking to break even." Among the commercial sponsors of the VP Fair special will be Budweiser beer, a division of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Pasetta says. performance won Young a Golden Globe award.

Now, the 74-year-old actress cites her religion as she talks of seeking new scripts that will allow her "to give good examples, not bad ones, to others." "Someone once said to me that I was very religious, and I replied that there is no such thing as being very religious," Young says. "You either practice religion or you don't practice it." Reminded that Hollywood is frequently referred to as "Babylon" and asked why she's continued living there, she says, "That's a generality, and I don't believe in generalities, except, of course, in the case of diabolism. I do believe in that. "For me, there is no retreat, there is no lukewarm. You're either for me or you're against me.

For God or against God. And if you're against God, you're for the devil," Young contends. "But I have all these enormously human desires and traits," she says. "I'm delighted to have them and don't want to squash any of them; I just want to use them well. "You must know your weaknesses, and you must use them," Young says.

"Women are most attractive and appealing when they are their weakest, when they are vulnerable." Why then her reputation as "very "Because what they call strong-willed is my knowing what is right and what is wrong for me," she says. "There are some women whq can take on one lover after another and have a ball. They just love it and have no qualms about it at all. "I'm sorry, but I'm still married, even though my marriage to Tom Lewis (her second husband) is Transworld Photo Gossip for gossip's sake is nothing but evil as far as I'm concerned. It helps no one, and it might well hurt someone.

Loretta Young See YOUNG, Page 11 9 Olive? Stone: A Viewpoint On Two Wars Xf0000 Ruben Blades Editor's note: When YOU profiled Oliver Stone in March, he told of helping write and then directing "Salvador," a story about America's Involvement in El Salvador in the early 1980s. "I didn make a dime from the movie. ended up losing some $1 7, 000, Stone said, explaining, however, that "Salvador" helped him get financing for "Platoon, his 10-year-old screenplay about his experiences as a Bronze Star-winning infantryman a "grunt" in the Vietnam War. When Stone's "Platoon" later won Oscars for best film, best direction, best sound and best editing the director said, "What you're saying is that you '11 never in our lifetime let it happen again. And if it does, then those American boys died over there for nothing.

Stone taught school in Vietnam before military service. He lived in Mexico before and after the war and has said that "Salvador" resulted, in part, from his ongoing interest in Latin America. Now Stone has written this essay comparing his experiences in Vietnam and Central America; in it, be accuses the United States of giving $1. 7 billion to a "military mafia that was "responsible for 30,000 to 50,000 civilian deaths" in El Salvador. He contends that "we are militarizing El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica.

"He alleges that "the Hondurans, who used to like America, now hate us, or at least want to steal from us." He contends that "a new voice of reason and intelligence" is needed "to redefine our goals" and revive "the American spirit of liberty for all." By Oliver Stone SWAS BORN in 1946 in New York City, at the dawn of the Cold War, and was reared as a Republican by my father, who also instilled In me a fear of the Russians and of communism. By the standards of the '50s, he was right But he never expected me to go to war and was horrified when I did to fight for those beliefs I was reared with. I arrived in Saigon in June 1965 as a schoolteacher, at the age of 18 the day the My Canh floating restaurant blew up. The marines and first infantry troops were drinking in Tudo Street, carrying weapons and firing them off in the air in the first blush of our victory. We were the good guys.

We were going to win. It was the war of my generation. It was glorious. When I returned in 1967, as a combat soldier, the first thing that struck me was that it had all started to See STONE, Page 2 i 1 'V- More News From The Book World Look out, Daniele Steel, Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins because here comes Betsy von Furstenberg. Her first novel, "Mirror, Mirror," will get a first printing of 700,000 copies.

Moving From Music To Film Grammy winner Ruben Blades co-stars with Whoopi Goldberg in MGM's "Fatal Beauty." She portrays a narcotics officer on a personal crusade to stop a ruthless businessman who's blanketing Los Angeles with a lethal designer-drug called "Fatal Beauty." A Return To Merry, Old England Tom Jones says he will give up his mansion in Beverly Hills and move back to England. That's because his tax bracket has dropped to 60 percent from 98 percent Director Oliver Stone with one of his Oscars for the film "Platoon." Family When A Child Ellight Need Professional Help It's important for parents to realize that it's not an admission of failure. DR. PAUL GRAFFAGNINO, a West Hartford, child psychiatrist, helped write the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fact sheet on child behavior problems a brochure designed to answer the question, "Is this normal?" "A lot of people feel that if something goes wrong with their child, it is a reflection on them and what they've done in the early years, and sometimes that's partially true." Graftagnino says. "But there are conditions in childhood, just as in adults, that are basically not caused by the environment and are either inherited disorders or temperament problems or physiologic problems like hyperactivity Parental efforts to cope are frequently frustrated, he says, "because ordinary parenting doesn't help those conditions." "A lot of these symptoms are normal in normal kids it's the persistence over more than a month" that warrants professional intervention, he says.

Persistent nightmares Persistent disobedience or aggression (longer than six months) and provocative opposition to authority figures In pt-adolMCnts and adelMCnts: A marked change in school performance Abuse of alcohol or drugs Inability to cope with problems and dally activities Marked changes in sleeping or eating habits Many complaints of ailments Consistent violation of the rights of others; opposition to authority; truancy, thefts, vandalism Intense fear of obesity with no relationship to actual weight Depression shown by sustained, prolonged negative mood and attitude, frequently accompanied Sec BEHAVIOR, Page In young! cKUdin A marked change tn school performance Poor grades despite efforts to succeed Worry or anxiety, as indicated by refusing to go to school, to sleep or to take part in activities appropriate for the child's age Hyperactivity, fidgeting, constant movement beyond regular playing HJustratton by Jc Crouch Post-Dispatch.