European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes Hll 5yiedk2ine Chrenc se3 a Cut hours T 9 a weather disrupts Maneu Vav. Page 2 c lotto a text wins $30 milljin.\. Page 4 direct says \ Page 7 q bears Patriss in new Orleans 21 soviets reported at . Base \page28 the Sian pipes vol. The British and French agreed monday to dig a Tunnel under the i Inglish Channel realizing a can urics uld dream of linking their two countries. At a meeting in Liis Northern French City. President Francois Mitterrand and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher gave the go ahead for the construction of a double railway Tunnel running to Miles under the Channel Belicen Dover and Ca Lais. They also said they want ,1 separate motor Tunnel Buill by the end of the Cen Tury work on the Lonnei which is expected to Cost almost f billion will Nan next year with plans calling for the Channel Tunnel or Channel As it is often called id go into service in 1993. Cars buses and trucks arc of make the 30-Minutc journey Between Britain and France aboard trains that will travel some 130 feet beneath the Channel bed. France also plans to run its High Speed express trains through the Tunnel culling Iho travel time Between Paris and London to 3 hours and 15 minutes. This could pro vide serious to airlines on one of the world s busiest air routes. The rail Tunnel plan chosen Mon Dikiy Uver three rival projects was put Forward by a consortium of British and French Banks construction companies und engineering firms called the Channel Tunnel group in Britain and France Manche on the other Side of the Channel but at the insistence of Thatcher who Sao Tunnel on Page 29 thousands across . Honor King Holiday by he Anci Atco press pro less mingled i h parades monday on the first Holiday in Honor of Martin Luther King jr., a Day in which ironic touches measured How close the country has come o achieving the slain civil rights Leader s dream. Tens of thousands of people gathered and marched to Honor King in Washington d.c., Atlanta Chicago Philadelphia los Angeles sin Francisco new Orleans and Honolulu among others. Church Bells pealed in Minnesota. Illinois and Rhode Island and radio stations around the nation s tiniest slate joined in broadcasting portions of King s "1 have a dream s ech do ens of stars performed in three cities in a nationally televised birth Fay parly for King. Five Hundred Blacks gathered on he capital Steps Al Montgomery ala., where gov. George Wallace had vowed segregation now segregation forever in 1963, to hear a proclamation honouring King. Wallace recently released from a Hospital did not attend the ceremony where press Secretary Bill Joe Camp read his proclamation. In Birmingham Ala where King led marchers against fire hosts and Nolick dogs in i�fi3, .1 seven foot statue of King was unveiled in a City Park. By Federal Taw. The third monday of january is a Day in Honor of King who was born Jan. Is 1929, and assassinated april 4. Ims in Memphis Tenn. The Day is a Legal Holiday in 27 slates including three which also Honor Confederate generals. Two other Stales have a Holiday on Jan. 15. Monday s protests focused on Stales and communities that stood aloof from he Holiday in Memphis 300 people gathered in the pot holed parking lot of the Lorraine Motel where King Mur dered. The Mold is now owned by a civic group. Hate is that killed him but love is what i Rukut him alive said slate Kep. Rosco Dixie. In Wisconsin several Hundred volunteers led by gov. Anthony Earl spent the Day helping Snow bound Farmers pick Corn. We Honor or. King by rolling up our sleeves putting on our galoshes and going into the the Rev Fred Trost of Madison said As Earl me volunteers Ai the Barneveld lutheran Church. After King s son Dexter Laid a Wreath a his father s limb in Atlanta the president of the Southern Christian see King on Page 28
