European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday. December 9. 1985 the stars and stripes m j Page foes in Liverpool give peace a Chance i Ooi. Lapland my cud my leaders buried the Hatchet ii Day Anil Sang old death. Mings with hundreds of fans and Christmas shippers at a special ceremony to Mark the fifth anniversary of the Guird or of John i he crowd gathered at the statue to the beatles in Matthew Street near the site i f the Cavern club where the four Rock stars first made their name 2 ears ago. Pc preventatives of i Ner Rohil s three Mam political parties who have been fending fur months Over a financial crisis which led Tom once prosperous Northwest port to the Brink of bankruptcy Laid bouquets of Flowers at the Metal sculpture to the City s most famous sons. John Chambers spokesman for the Liverpool beatles appreciation society which organised the tribute said the theme was peace and reconciliation to use the words of John s song we re asking people to give peace a Chance " he said. Derek Hatlon. Militant Deputy Leader of the City s left Wing Council said that Al though is now remembered As a Man of peace during the beatles heyday he was dismissed As an ignorant Young Hatton said if John alive Loday. Lie would say the youth of Are the generation of tomorrow and unless we listen to them tomorrow will be a catastrophe. When Young people stand up and oppose what is happening in society it is Only what John and the other beatles were doing All those years , who was born in the City s Oxford Street maternity Hospital on oct.1940, was gunned Down by a deranged fan on dec 8, 1980, outside his apartment in new York. Chambers complained that the City in general is apathetic to the beatles and not enough is done to remember its apathy was highlighted recently when it was announced that the beatles City museum opened last year was being moved to Lori Charlie left Uncle of the late John , takes part in s c Don because of Lack of business. The ceremony took place opposite the new multimillion Dollar Cavern walks shopping Complex which includes to re construction of the old underground Cav Ern club. The original was pulled Down about 12 years ago to make Way for a ventilation Shaft. Liverpool with half a million people is Britain s sixth largest City and has been hard hit by unemployment recession racial tension and mounting crime. Last week the City s lengthy financial Cri Sis ended when the Council approved a new balanced budget. Militant members of the socialist labor parly which controls the Council had previously refused to approve a budget in a failed attempt to Force prime minister Margaret Thatcher s conservative government to pump More government Cash into the economically depressed Cit government Grinch wont steal Christmas Tair Paris a operators of an illegal Christmas fair sneaked their Ferris wheel and merry go round into the Tuil eries Gar Dens last sunday and summoned a troop of elephants to Block any police who might try to evict Ihm. But none of it proved necessary. Politics and a dash of seasonal Goodwill saved the Day. In the interests of the Joy of children and their parents the French government gave in Friday saying the carnival could operate for a time in the gardens its Ferris wheel now joining the Eiffel Tower Aspi part of the Paris Skyline. The carnival operators who claim to have been driven away from one City Center after another had entered the gardens without permission saying they knew authorization would never be granted. They claimed they had a right to work in the Tuil eries alongside the children s forum being staged by the government his week. The carnival directors plan to bring a troop of elephants from a suburban circus to face off a possible police assault came to naught when the officers got to the circus first and prevented the eight elephants from going anywhere. The Paris City Council controlled by opponents of the governing socialists stayed silent As government officials were torn Between upholding the Law and the Prospect of angering voters by depriving thousands of parisian children of a Surprise Christmas treat. Culture minister Jack Lang whose office is responsible for the gardens next to the louvre museum started a court action to try to expel the carnival. Bui while the wheels of Justice were grinding the Ferris wheel was Assem bled As were other attract ions. On Friday Georgina Defoix the min ister for social affairs issued a communique saying her office had obtained the culture ministry s permission for the carnival to stay on the site until the end of december. The goal the communique said was to make the children s forum which will run dec. 9-12, a real children s festival. Held in the Best conditions for the Joy of the children and their so there will be no unruly scenes of French police arresting clowns and or Dering the merry go round to halt As up cd children w Alch. The carnival did t near elephant Power after All. Child Power and possible consequences in the National elections three months hence seem to have been enough. Riders enjoy the in of the Paris Skyline from High atop the Ferris wheel originally Sel up Illi ill in the Tuil eries Lardi is
