European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 7. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 anti abortion protesters March on hospitals by he associated press thousands of pc pc protesting abortion marched saturday in peaceful rallies out Side hospitals across the country with one minister calling for a prayer army to join the Battle against la  abortion. The Christian action Council planned the protests for .1 x cities in an Effort to Force hospitals to Stop performing abortions said Curtis j. Young executive director of the Council hospitals Are associated with giving life said Karen my acc who organized a protest in Jackson. Mich but when hospitals perform abortions it s certainly a  in Santa Monica. Calif., about 100 pro testers displayed three fetuses one 24 weeks old and carried signs calling Abor Tion the ultimate child  protest organizer Virginia Brownson would not say where she obtained the fetuses and said she was unsure whether they had been aborted or miscarried. An estimated 12.000 people marched in Billon Rouge. I.a., said the Rev.  Stockstill one of the 45 clergy who Urgan i cd rallies in Louisiana. The Louisiana protesters Many with children in strollers followed a Hearse bearing a casket that organisers said rep resented an unborn child. Stockstill urged the protesters to become a prayer army in the fight against abortion. Or. Mildred fac Jefferson associate clinical professor of surgery at Boston University s school of Medicine told the protest that More than 13 million unborn children have lost their lives since the supreme court s 1973 decision legalizing abortion. Neither this nation nor any other nation on Earth can afford that kind of  she said. Baion Rouge police escorted about 50 people mostly members of the National organization for women who were advocating women s right to Legal abortions. Mary Russ president of the Louisiana now chapter said the protest was to represent what is the majority of this  More than 1,300 people carrying ban ners signs and tiny coffins marched in six Washington cities. Well vote people into office and Well vote them  said the Rev. Harley alien pastor of the Spokane w ih., first Assembly of god Church  11 Stop being observers and become  rallies also were held in Michigan Vir Ginia. Florida Ohio California. Tennes see Georgia and Connecticut. Lou Walls a spokesman for Fairfax va., Hospital said we Don t Call them abortions. We Call them terminations. We perform a limited number of terminations. And that s All in the nature of the fact that we re the largest birth Center in the metro area third on Eastern Seaboard and eighth in the  in Connecticut several Hundred people marched in several communities and about 600 people marched in Nashville tcnn., before holding a 45-minute silent Vigil. About .100 people protested in Miami Vigani cars said about 20 people pro tested for about two hours outside River Side methodist Hospital in Columbus. Ohio and 40 people demonstrated outside Northside Hospital in suburban Atlanta. Young of the Christian action Council said earlier that ministers planned to make the protests an annual event on the first saturday of october. You can expect that this will be the first of Many protests of this  he said. In fact we expect that in the future they will be  Santa Monica Hospital medical Center issued a statement which said while Santa Monica Hospital medical Center Rico Gnu is others rights to dissent and to speak freely we ask that they recognise the Hospital s rights to offer needed medi Cal services and our patients rights to receive this  other hospitals targeted for the protests issued similar statements. Soaring like an Eagle Dorothy Mitchell of a Tenniel n.y., holds her son Kevin after he earned he rank of Eagle scout. Kevin achieved boy shouting s highest award despite being Blind since birth. A act backs services across nation . Anti apartheid groups rally new York a about 2,000 Whites Blacks and hispanic filled St. Patrick s Cathedral on saturday for an ecumenical service to mourn the victims of apartheid the South african system of racial separation. The prayer service was one of several around the nation on what organizers termed a National Day of mourning for More than so Blacks killed in 13 months of unrest in South Africa. The services organized by the National association for the advancement of coloured people also took place in new Jersey Michigan Utah and Missouri. In new York mayor de Koch said i know in my heart and you know in your hearts that what we arc seeing in South Africa rivals that which the world saw in nazi Germany in 1933. Must we wait until 1943 nazi Germany before we recognize the same thing is occurring in South Africa must we wait 10 years before we do what is right Koch asked. Adolf Hitler assumed Power in Germany in 1933 and began implementing a Range of anti jewish policies end ing a decade later in what nazi insiders termed the final solution the murder of millions of european jews. Koch was applauded twice during his speech when he called for an end to . Diplomatic and economic relations with South Africa and when he said the president of the United states must stand up and denounce South  new York Cardinal John o Connor called apartheid a direct attack on the dignity of the human  Al though discrimination has existed in the United states he said apartheid represents almost a quantum leap above anything seen Here. The conditions which have led to the loss of More than 700 lives in Llie past in months must come loan end said the Rev. Benjamin Hooks director of the a act. We shall not rest until apartheid is wiped from the face of the  rep. Robert Torricelli.  told More than 100 peo ple at a rally at the a Hackensack n.j., mount Olive Baptist Church that apartheid can t be another Issue of the week. A demonstration like this has to be followed by Many  about 200 people in new Brunswick n.j., marched on the Headquarters of Johnson & Johnson co. To try to Force that company to divest its More than 5100 million in in vestments in South Africa. In Lansing mich., about 200 people marched to the Capitol building. Reginald Nyo Vanc an exiled Black South african urged stale lawmakers to confront leaders of corporations with holdings in South Africa and urge them to divest. It s not enough to shout  he said. You must approach and confront the leaders who continue to ignore our  about 200 people in Detroit endured drily. Cold weather for a half mile March. This nation has a moral responsibility to do whatever we can to bring an end to this immoral system Detroit mayor Coltman Young said in a statement. In Missouri Scalia mayor Larry Foster asked Resi dents to Wear red ribbons to protest the brutal apartheid  the Salt Lake City chapter of the a act and Utah state sen. Terry l. Williams sponsored an anti apartheid rally in front of the Federal building in Salt Lake City. Publicist denies report Hudson did not of statement on aids los Angeles a ads stricken actor Rock Hudson knew his name was enlisted in the fight against the disease despite published reports to the c9ntrary, his publicist said saturday. Syndicated columnist Marilyn Beck reported Friday that friends of Hudson said he was unaware of a statement read in his name at a Star studded aids Benefit last month. Hudson s publicist Dale Olson said he discussed the statement with Hudson wrote it and then read it to the actor. Hudson 59, died wednesday after a yearlong Battle against acquired immune deficiency syndrome. It was approved by Rock Hudson and released said Olson. He was Lucid and understood every word. The statement read by actor Burl Lancaster said "1 am not Happy that i am sick.  not Happy that i have aids but if that is helping others i can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive Worth. Hudson donated $250,000 to the fund Raiser. Ross Hunter Hudson s close Friend was quoted by Beck As saying Hudson was unaware of the statement and that it used the actor s plight to gain attention for the fight against the disease. But on Friday Hunter told the los Angeles Herald examiner that he never meant to imply that Hudson was being manipulated by those around him. All i said was that or. Hudson never discussed aids with me at any time Hunter told the examiner. Beck also quoted Hunter As saying that Hudson was rarely Lucid in the final weeks of his life and never publicly acknowledged he had aids. However Hudson s attorney in new York Paul Sherman said he visited his client As recently As sept. 4 and that Hud son politely inquired about a recent trip Sherman had taken. Here was this Man dying almost cadaverous and his first question was about my trip Sherman said in an interview published saturday in the los Angeles times. He also said that Hudson had stipulated that All his earnings from a Book he was writing Rock Hudson his own Story would go to the Rock Hudson aids re search foundation. The Book is scheduled for publication in the Spring. Aids activists have lauded Hudson for admitting he had aids and increasing Public awareness of the Dis ease. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 7, 1945 in Tokyo. Baron Kijuro Shigehara. Former japanese ambassador to the . And a known opponent of his country s military aggression began form ing a new government designed to carry out Gen. Douglas Macarthur s orders for restoration of civil liberties. 30 years ago today. Oct. 7, 1955 French Premier Edgar Faure s parliamentary majority deserted him but he refused to quit without a fight Over the moroccan crisis. 20 years ago today. Oct. 7, 1965 an american military spokesman announced that three air Force jets and one Navy Jet had been shot Down in raids Over North Vietnam. 10 years ago today. Oct. 7, 1975 a gunman claiming to be a Cymbio nose liberation army member took 12 people hostage in a new York Bank and demanded the release of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst