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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28jfic the stars and stripes wednesday january 21.1987 Ancmon commemorates King s birthday from Page 1 Buddhist chants and american Indian dancers. Mori than 1,200 of the 22.000 residents in occur d Alene Idaho a Community that has been trying to counteract while supremacists who have settled near by jammed into a College auditorium for midday Cere monies marking King s birthday. We re not perfect and we re not free of prejudice in Northern Idaho but we re working on it said Cit Council president Dixie Reed As she presented the rest of occur d Alene with the Raoul Wallenberg civic award named for a swedish citizen who helped free 100,000 jews from nazi occupied Hungary. Thousands of people Rode a Freedom train from san Jose. Calif., to san Francisco then proceeded to a rally where speakers urged the audience to pass inking s message to their children. Turn that television off and Tell it to your Chil Dren implored the Rev. Amos Brown who was introduced As having walked prayed and went to jail with King. Tell it hat he stood up for peace Tell it thai he stood up for Justice Tell it that he stood up for righteousness. This is not a Black event. This is an american Holiday Black and White gov. Arch Moore said at a ceremony in Charleston . Where participants Sang we shall  Martin Luther King Day came less than 4b hours after Blacks and Whites marching in Georgia s All White Forsyth county were pelted with rocks and bottles by a crowd of Kun flux clansmen and their supporters. Mrs. King and other civil rights leaders on monday said another March will be held there saturday. The Day was a Holiday for Federal workers employees of the District of Columbia and most of the 38 Stales that celebrated the second Observance of Martin Luther King Day. Some Stales Honor King on his birth Day Jan. I. About i so people turned out despite a wind chill of18 degrees below Zero Al the Capitol of Wyoming the Equality state 10 urge adoption of a state Holiday there. Financial rear kits were open but the new York Stock Exchange observed a minute of silence at noon. Schools Banks and government offices in some Stales were closed. About 200 people marched across a car York City s Brooklyn Bridge for a peaceful demonstration on Wall Street. The Rev. Herbert Daughtry said he had come to the Citadel of american capitalism. To under score the racial violence that is pervasive in this coun  King a Baptist preacher awarded the 1964 Nobel peace prize for his civil rights leadership was bom in 1929, he was shot to death in 1968 by a sniper on the second floor of the Lorraine Motet in Memphis term. Where he was slaying while he helped Lead a sanitation workers strike. About 200 people gathered monday at the Motel. Anita Cory leading her 5-year-old daughter Nadonna to the room which has been made into a King memorial said she s in kindergarten now and the needs to know about or. King and what he stood  in Atlanta the Rev. Hosea Williams a former King aide stood with mrs. King at the Grav Silc ceremony then led a prayer that King s followers would Rcd Edt Cate ourselves. Until Trie dream becomes a living reality others at the grave site included . Sen. Sam Nunn a a civil rights Leader the Rev Jesse Jack son King s sister Christine King Farris and his son Martin Luther King Iii. King s struggle tar racial Equality must be won every Day Shultz said later Al an ecumenical service at Ebenezer Baptist Church where King and hit father were co pastors. Or. King s achievement is real Only As we maintain our vigilance and commitment Shultz said. Mrs. King then presented the Martin la Tycer King or. Nonviolent peace prize to philippine president co Razon Aquino whose husband a Leader of opponents of the Marcos government also was slain. A representative accepted Tor mrs. Aquino. Which gov. Evan Mecham rescinded on Jan 12. Medium said monday he does not Undem tand Why people who want to Honor King Are insisting that everyone else do the same. The Republican governor appearing on Nuci today show with Jesse Jackson was labelled a dream Buster by Jackson who said Mecham will not succeed in opposing efforts to establish a King Holiday in Arizona. Mecham repeated his insistence that it bad to can cel the Arizona Holiday for stale worker established last year in an executive order by then gov Bruce Babbitt because Babbitt did not have the Legal authority to set such a Holiday. Mecham has asked the legislature to approve a referendum on whether Arizona should have a King holi Day. "1 Don t understand the insistence by those who want to Honor or. King who insist that everybody do so he said. I think that any Observance a tribute a Honor has to be bestowed not forced. And i Don t tee the hassle on All  from Page 1 months after Reagan signed a secret int Illigen. Ing Jan. 17, 1986, authorizing the sales the entire process of congressional oversight of such operations has been put at risk. Notification requirements were intended not Only news briefs surplus food approved for cold wave victims Brussels up the european Community decided tuesday to make at least $57 Mil lion available in Aid to victims of the european cold wave mainly food from surplus farm stocks officials said. The Community s executive commission last week decided to make Butler and beef from sur plus stocks available free of charge for distribution to needy people by Charity organizations. For further food Aid the commission needed the approval of the Council of ministers. That authorization was Given Early tuesday by ministers of agriculture officials said. That Aid will include wheat flour sugar and other Dairy products than butter . Fresh milk or cheese they said. . Phone engineers hold one Day strike London a the National communications Union said 37,500 Telephone engineers around the country went on slake Tor 24 hours. Monday in support of 700 colleagues sent Home by the management when they refused to work overtime in a dispute about . British telecoms the company that runs the system said in a statement that the stoppage did not have any significant Impact on Telephone services. But the British Domestic news Agency press association said the threat of severe disruption with an increasing number of Telephone break Downs left a repaired was growing As the Union prepared for More stoppages this week in the escalating dispute. To ensure the propriety of Covert operations but also to ensure their effectiveness the times quoted the anal Ysis As saying. In this particular ease notification could have pre vented what proved to be a costly setback Tor . Foreign policy. Said the document it obtained was drafted  a Cpd part of a longer report writ ten by the  Rel the in staff members about its extensive hearings Winum most the Iran arms Contra Aid scandal. The report s first Section about 130 pa., mainly a chronology of the affair the Tan and its Early draft was obtained by tube cos two weeks ago. The portion  pro Vides a summary and  the summary  for run Ning a great risk of Price with its Iran operation Ana charges it we wineries of mistakes and misjudgments from a Flary 1985 to november 1986, when the Deal a Nival costs to the United states entailed by these risks could have been reduced if Cong Nefyn Era had been informed for they would i prepared to support the  opera Tion was exposed the times  As saying. The document also a intelligence  in Covert operations were  by the National Secu Rity coun jmj members who ran the program. Analysis other conclusions is that Rea have been briefed orally on a memorandum i suggested diverting 112 million to the centres the memo it said was drafted in april 1986 by it. Col Oliver North and was apparently sent ice adm. John Poindexter. Abc rep a Iii Helaine memo saturday saying it was dated april but the Senate  committee received no evidence Poindexter i about the memo and there is no specific provided that Reagan knew of any funds dive Nithe contras at a time when . Military Aid to the rebels was banned by Law. Bonn from Page 1 ment should not yield to any demands by kidnappers. Wischnewski negotiated with the hijackers of a Luft Hansa plane hijacked in 1977. German anti terrorist commandos eventually stormed Hie Jet in Mogadishu Somalia and killed or captured the hijackers and res cued the passengers. Wischnewski also mediated successfully to free eight germans seized by rebels in Nicaragua in May 1986. Codes s3, was abducted by armed men who slopped his car As he was being driven to the hotel Cavalier in West Beirut after arriving on a Light from Frankfurt. An Anonymous Telephone caller informed the West German embassy saturday that he had been seized. West Germany s die Welt newspaper said in an editorial that the . Extradition demand puts West German Justice officials in a dilemma if conies is being held to extort the release of Ramadei it will be interesting to see whether Damascus can have a humanitarian influence on the kidnappers incas an intermediary role is called for the newspaper said. Syria cart now make in relationship to Terro nun very  West Germany unlike Britain refused to sever diplomatic ties with Damascus after arabs with apparent syrian support were convicted in separate trials last autumn of terrorism in London and Berlin. Attacks from Page 1 said Iran has not made any significant gains. The iranians have suffered heavy unit losses the iranian forces Are not moving on Basra from the  . Officials said the size of the offensive is smaller than the iranian drive last year against Faw an Iraq Gulf port. Irna Iran s state run news Agency said Tehran had sent a message to United nations Secretary Gen Era Javier Perez de Zuellar monday calling for . Help to halt iraqi air raids on civilian targets. Iraqi jets monday carried out attack on four cities killing 18 people in say Fez and eight in Tabriz both i Northwestern Iran another i7s people were wounded Irna said. The killings took the death toll in iranian die from iraqi air raids and missile attacks to at least 1.008 since Jan. 9, when Iran launched in offensive near Siltala Mchuch on the Shalt Al Arab waterway. The islamic Republic is ready to consider any plan to end iraqi attacks on civilian areas but would retaliate if the air raids continued Irna cud. Iraq has not announced figure of in civilian deaths in similar iranian attacks but Western newsmen who visited Iraq said scares have died in Basra alone and Baghdad appeared to step up its raids in reprisal  
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