European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday december 23. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 stuck on having a Good time at Christmas "so11? a i l. App Kiiu. People including Santa Claus have several ways of jetting into the Holiday spirit. At left in appear Santa May need some help Selling out of this Chimney in Union . But rescuers would Only find a pair of Boon and some pants wired with Christmas tree lights to help spread Christmas cheer. At right Saint Nick jumps a hurdle while taking part in Ibe 26lh edition of the Figaro newspaper Cross country race in a suburb of Paris. Dispute threatens Bethlehem procession , israeli occupied West Bank up the fire orthodox Church sunday threatened to cancel 3 Christmas procession unless it gets per Mission la clean a Small Section of Wall above the Birthplace of Jesus. The threat made by greek orthodox patriarch Diodoros i in an interview Wilh the Jerusalem Post newspaper was the latest Salvo in a centuries old religious dispute Over rights to the Church if the nativity. To can we celebrate Christmas when our rights arc trampled on i odours told the newspaper disowning a pact mediated Lasi year by Israel Between the feuding greek orthodox. Latin and armenian churches. Diodoros said thai on annual clean ing Day dec. 29 his priests would symbolically clean a whole Section of Wall above the Grotto of the nativity which houses the Manger where Jesus was born nearly 2,000 years ago. On dec. 37. H8-1. Jyme so clergy armed with Sticks and chairs came to blow Over the right to clean the same area of he Church. Police and paramilitary Border police were called in to Stop the clerical clash. Diodoros did unless Israel s ministry of religious affairs which has arbitrated cleaning rights since Israel seized the Weil Bank in 1967, allowed thai to Hap pen he would cancel his annual Christmas procession. The greek orthodox Christmas Falls on Jan. 6 and traditionally the patriarch leads a procession from his Jerusalem residence to a service in the Church of nativity in Bethlehem 5 Miles South of Jerusalem. The annual cleaning is purely a sym Bolic assertion of the three churches rights to various parts of the Church of the nativity and invokes Little real cleaning of the Walls Vulikh Are covered with Din and soot. A spokesman at the ministry of religious affairs said Christian communities director Daniel Rossing was at tempting to smooth things Over with the greeks and other churches and support the j ear old pact Between them. Under that agreement a greek Monk can climb a ladder Over the disputed Tion and while standing on the ladder clean that portion of the Wall which can be reached with a Normal hand Diodoros argues thai the greeks have rights to the entire Wall. But the armenian Church was Quick to say they Felt Diodoros was bluffing this year by threatening to cancel his an Nual procession he will never do it. He would been angering far More important rights than those in dispute said armenian Arch Bishop Kapikian. Ministry sources said that the greeks might lose their right to an annual pro cession to Bethlehem if they cancelled it this year so Dio Doms threat was essentially empty. But they remained concerned there could be another clash. Ellrith Adams looks As if he s about to be it toured by a giant spit like creature but it s ill in fan. Adam snug As a Bug As repairing the headlights on the Volkswagen Beetle sculpture an Eye catching feature at tie Amo p pm o tech car show in Calgary Alberta. Featured cars Are displayed beneath the Bug
