European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday june 27,1986 the 141 foot Christian Raykh Nils put the Stahl of Liberty on its Arriol in new York wednesday. Koch Mondale Greet 1 stall ship to arrive in . For july 4th gala new York Fuji tie Christian Radich arrived in new York Harbor its sails billowing and saluted by a fireboat spraying geysers of water to be come the first tall ship to arrive for no week s statue of Liberty Centennial. The 241-foot merchant ship from Norway sailed past the refurbished 100-year-old lady of the Harbor and was greeted wednesday at the South Street seaport by mayor Edward Koch former presidential candidate Waller Mondale Liim Adf a norwegian american and hundreds of people of norwegian descent. The Christian Radich was the first of hundreds of waiting ships to arrive for the july fourth operation sail up the Hudson River expected to be one of the most colourful celebrations thai Are part of the four Day Centennial Celebration for the statue of Liberty. The ship s 65 male and female cadets All Blond and with an average age of 17, lined the ship s rail dressed in red jumpsuits As Cape. Kjell Thorsen accepted Wel comes to the City. The statue of Liberty is the Symbol of Freedom the world so badly needs said Thorson during a Brief ceremony at the pier. The first norwegian immigrants arrived on the ship the restoration 135 years ago and settled in Brooklyn. The last person to be processed through the Ellis Island immigration Center was a norwegian Sailor. They came to better their lives but they did not come to take. They came to give and they have done that All their lives Mondale said. Prize winning Vietnam refugee too a lady Liberty Celebration new York up a fatherless 11-year-old refugee who fled Vietnam for Freedom in America has been chosen to read her prize winning statue of Liberty essay before president Reagan and on National television during the july lady Liberty Cele bration. Hue Cao 11, who won a new car in a statewide essay contest in Hawaii but we forced to give it up because of Federal welfare regulations will read her 199-word essay what the statue of Liberty Means to me during opening ceremonies of Liberty week end july 3 in new York Hue was selected wednesday to read her essay in front of Reagan president Francois Mitterrand of France and an estimated television audience of 1.5 billion people because television producer Gary Smith believed she could bundle the pressure of appearing before so Many people also her essay was representative of All those submitted by children Smith said. In her essay. Hue said her family fled the very cruel Stern and ill tempered communists in Viet Nam. We wanted to live in America a land where there is Liberty and Justice she wrote. Every time we saw a picture of the statue of Liberty my Mother would Tell i that she is America. America it a place that lends a hand to those in need. The americans care for All people from Home less to hopeless people she wrote. Huea Jid her family fled Vietnam in 1979 on a Small fishing boat and were rescued by a Navy ship. The Waipahu elementary school sixth grader spoke no English when she arrived at the age of 4 but has since won awards for her writing and was the student body presi Dent of her school this year. Her father died in Vietnam. Hue became a National celebrity after she won the essay contest and then Learned her family would lose its welfare benefits if she accepted the first prize an 18,500 car. The Story received nationwide attention and resulted in an outpouring of compassion from people All Over the country. The girl received a Telephone Call last month from Reagan who had been told of the problem but could not change the Rule to allow her to keep the car. The president congratulated Hue on her achieve ments telling her thai she and her family were the reason god put this land of dim where he did. Hue responded by thanking the president for the privilege of living id this Good Sod kind  she said we really appreciate  retired businessman later donated Money for Hue and her parents to be Able to buy a used car for j1.499 $1 below the 51,500 limit allowed by Federal welfare regulations. The new car was told and the Money put into a input fund for Hue i College education. Stateside mass town banishes Man convicted of stealing Cohasset mass. Dpi a 24-year-old Roan convicted of steal ing from h is neighbors Homes has until Friday to leave town because a judge has sentenced him to three years of  laugh file son of a Cohasset selectman was convicted last week on charges of breaking and entering and larceny in two House robberies. District judge Charles e. Black gave lag Ellea two year suspended sentence on each of the charges placed him on three years probation and on the request of the victims gave him until the end of the week to leave  order prohibits Laugelli from living in or entering town except in cases of family emergencies or if his Jota As it landscaper req urls him  was also ordered to pay restitution of More than 14,000 to the  planning to talk to his lawyer about a possible Appeal Laguello said he was not an gered by his  victims have a right to do whal they want he said. Parents of boy crushed by Tombstone file suit Chicago a the parents of a 4-year old boy who was killed when a 500-Pound Tombstone crushed him on Mother s Day have tiled suit against the cemetery where the Acci Dent  suit filed wednesday in Cook county Cir Cuit court contends officials of the jewish warn Heim cemetery in Forest Park Are responsible for the May 11 death of Brandon Scott  seeking an unspecified amount of damage in excess of is 5.000, the suit contends that cemetery officials failed 0 properly maintain its tombstones. The youngster was killed on Mother s Day Ashe visited family grave Sites at the cemetery with his parents. Rose and Marvin Schwartz of Chi Cago. Night court1 Star Halop hospitalized after stroke los Angeles a Florence Halop in impish Bailiff on television s night court was hospitalized in serious but stable condition partly paralysed by a stroke and suffering from , 63, was undergoing radiation treat ment for an undisclosed Type of cancer said Ron Wise spokesman for Cedars Sinai medical Cen  right Side of her body was partly Par Al Zed by the  the Abc series this season As Bailiff Florence Kleiner replacing Selma Diamond who played court Matron Selma Hacker and died of cancer in May 1985. Halop was hospitalized last week Afler suffer ing a stroke and the cancer was discovered then said Maggie Begley spokeswoman for Warner bros., which produce the series. Halop most recently appeared As the irritable patient mrs. Hufnagle. In the St. Elsewhere series. 2 rescued after copter crashes in Hudson River new York Dpi a Quick reacting Heli copter Pilot swerved to avoid Hilling another chopper wednesday and crashed into the Hud son River dumping the Pilot and a passenger into the murky water. The Pilot and Lone passenger were fished Oul of the water by police. Neither my was Hurt in the crash which occurred shortly before 2 25p.m., said a spokesman for the emergency medi Cal  two men were not immediately Ridenti  Craft hovering 10 feet above the water after a right from new Jersey Wax trying to land at a helipad on Manhattan West Side said Robin Zucker. A spokesman for air Pegasus which oper ates the heliport. Juit As it began to land Gusty winds forced the chopper toward another space on the Tarmac Al ready occupied by a parked helicopter. The Landing Craft was forced to suddenly change direction to avoid the other chopper