European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Unlit the air conditioning is working. The Ranger station inside the statue cannot be completed until All other work on the internal Structure is done because conduction materials Are being moved upward through ,1 Hole in the Static 5 ceiling the Island Buttle from 7 . Until Midnight. Labourers push wheelbarrows and lit Brick and Stone Lorje Fher outside the statue Wile a Sirjo hammers no uralic drills ring. Forklift Fucks and Iron in re loaders rumble Over a oct  roads a touch of the Frontier used to project Chr brickwork underneath lion inc machines. Ii goes in  f3i la note says of Tho restoration we re in a heavy period now. It s one amount of work being done and the deadline. Thin is the Linale Fellanto started working on the pc Ifor Alion As a Volunteer three years ago and joined the paid staff in october 1983, since then he has lived much More Hie upper West Side apartment which in rented by is gab. Than at his own Home in . Summit.  near Scranlin. If you ask my Wilo where i live h you. I m ,1 Penn Sylvani m Hul i i Rya i w yorker she says. The Olhorn Wom a in my Isle i j getting morn attention than she if and 1 a. A to quo Jhon Boul it " like Many workers on Itic firmed Blue Collar and a Hiie Collar Bellanie sees the premonition As i Mission an much As a of born his parents emigrated irom Italy a ii in the Century ind he grew up  their tales of the . My lather used to Tell me that All the people around him were a Ying with , when Ihl y saw the statue Bellante says. He use to by Ali if his children bomb bom tier could never  Brut n Nio int.  Hope in ii new life " he purer. Shifts torn part to pie sent i really via my Fri n1 Lulu Livett 10 gee this. They d be 5o Poi a statue of Uberty  Longshot statue from base Iosoich 151 la 1 in Talal height imm it. 1 in Lengum old crr 2 t i Lengli of fight  length it hand 1611 5 Willho head from ear ear 101 of Ryo ? 11 6 in length of no 4 it thickness of Wai it 3s it. At Copper used 100 tons Tola gig he of statue tons thickness of capper3 nut Ign of slips from Basa or oct slam to inscription on Tablet july the signing of the declaration of tha seven Raysin Crown s diadem represent the seven Sens and seven continent.  among Iii. New York times f or at least some american backs h8fourth of july statue of Liber i  evokes mixed feelings Anden options Well Short of   3 celeb Aljon the focuses attention on the nation s immigrant heritage Servos As a  reminder of the Way in which Blacks arrived in America and How they have fared Vinci. Others say they accept the Celebration of the statue s symbolism for immigrants As Long As Black immigrants from the Ca a bean Are recognized. Still others View i As someone else s Celebration. The ambivalence was also suggested in the approach of the Schomburg Center Lor research in Black culture in Harlem toward planning and naming its exhibit marking the Centennial. The result was an exhibit titled give me your poor. Voluntary Immi Gralian of Blacks to the  Roy Bryce Laporte curator of the exhibit said caution was necessary because the statue s symbolism of Liberty and Opportunity was not universally viewed As a reality Lor All Blacks. He said the title of the exhibit also had to distinguish Between those Blacks who were in America As a result of choices made by their ancestors and those Whoso ancestors had no Choice. He said the question Mark in the title was necessary because there had been few studies of Black immigrants and therefore Many questions remained unanswered reflecting the views of some Blacks toward the festivities. John Hope Franklin a historian of the slavery Era who is a visiting professor Al Duke University said it s a celeb Alion for imm Grants and thai has a cling to do Vith me. I m interested in it As an event but i Don l Leel involved in  another prominent Black person Eleanor Homes Norton. A professor at Georgetown University s Law school and a Lormer chairman of the equal empty men opportunely commission had a Efferent View. The Liberty Nolion is sir eng to anyone and to Allach negativism to he renovation of a Sia tie proclaiming Liberty is nol my interest she said. American symbols should nol be taken to be the property of n particular group in our heterogeneous society and the ironies of the Symbol have to be  William a Harrt historian adviser to the National Parks service and president of Paine College in Augusta a. Said he believed the Celebration would Relles Only the european immigrant experience. Ii you can t communicate to backs that when you Are talking about Liberty you Are talking about Mora Inan just european immigrants but about the Entera peopling of ametk.3, then there just in t much in it for me he said David Wolper. Who is planning the three Days of events said Blacks would be Well represented among the thousands of musicians athletes dancers other performers and the production staff involved in the festivities. He said the Celebration was not Only about the nation s immigrant heritage in which Blacks Irani the Caribbean share in a Small Way but also about the concept of Liberty. Bui he said there would be no attempt to depict routes by which other ethnic groups came to the country nor How hey fared. The stars and stripes Page 15