European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. March 17, 1987 the stars and stripes Page cities get head Start on St. Pat9s festivities  vt$1klf4hhbiplvuvmhhhi of   the ave Bilhl pre Green Beer flowed and some Young Heads sprouted Green hair Assi. Pal Rick s Day celebrations started Early with the blare of brass band the skill of bagpipes and a Hearty Erin go  tuesday is inc official Day to Honor he Patron mini of Ireland bin some cities jumped the gun. The celebrating started Friday in Savannah ga., which claims it has the nation s targe so St. Patrick s Day Celebration outside new York City where the a caring of the Grcen was held Back unlit tuesday. Between 200,000 and 300,000 people usually show up for the Savannah Celebration. This year the Savannah merchants association decided to sell Beer along the waterfront area and the City s pubic Epurs who View the weekend Long Cele bration As inc end of a four month Winter slump and normally make a Fortune Selling Green Beer to Rev Elers went to court prevent it but lost. The six county Chicago area has the largest Irish population of any metropolitan area in the country. At More than  million people of Rish descent and City workers Dye inc Chicago River Green for the annual downtown Parade on St. Patrick s Day. However. Sunday was the Day for the ninth an Nual South Side Irish St. Patrick s Day Parade which Drew some 150.000 spectators. George Hendry a founder of the South Side Parade said it has t degenerated into an elbowing match Between politicians fighting for front Row marching positions As is often the Case in the downtown Parade we make All the politicians March together in the Middle he said. San Francisco s is. Patrick s Day Parade was held in sunny but blustery weather sunday As politicians brass bands Drill teams and singers made their Way Down the mile Long route. In Boston an estimated 1 million people crammed the Irish stronghold of South Boston Tor the annual three hour festival of eating drinking and singing of Irish songs. Bui the object of much of the attention was a greek gov. Michael Dukakis who is expected to Appolo Derlyn o Donnil 4, yawns As she awaits her Tarn to March in san Francisco s is. Patrick s Day Parade. Announce this week whether he will seek the demo cratic presidential nomination. I know this is going to disappoint some of you Dukakis said but i m not going to be a candidate for  after a Long pause he added. Of inc mat Huiel  in Philadelphia marchers in traditional Irish cos Tumes is rutted Down Benjamin Franklin Parkway in the Lune of Rish Kucs arc smiling in thai City s 36ih annual Parade sunday. Sixteen year old Susan a fancy dyed her  Green to show that i m  we re american but when you Sec All these Irish fares you reach Back into your  said Nancy Flanagan whose husband and son marched in the Philadelphia Parade. Park police said an estimated .10,000 people lined Constitution Avenue in the nation s capital to watch the annual Parade sponsored by the Irish american club of Washington and the National Park service. Intermittent sprinkles of rain did l keep people from sunday s Parade in Baltimore earlier in inc Day about 500 runners participated in a race South of the inner Harbor. Los Angeles and Salt Lake City got a head Start saturday with parades to celebrate the Saint who. According to legend drove the snakes from Ireland. A downtown los Angeles Parade featured an Irish seller Drill team of about 20 dogs and their masters and More than 100 groups participated in a Holly Wood Parade. In Salt Lake City Irish wolfhounds joined in the downtown procession. New Orleans where Many were still recovering from Mardi gras began its celebrations Friday eve Ning with a Parade through the French Quarter led by Jim Monaghan s Decatur Street Irish club. A second Parade saturday featured riders on floats tossing some of the makings of an Irish slew cab Bages onions potatoes and carrots and Louisiana gov. Edwin Edwards and mayor Sidney Barth Clemy stopping every 10 feel or so to kiss women or pose for pictures. In Denver some 40,000 people turned Oul sat urday to watch a mile Long Parade of some 5.000 marchers that ranged from politicians to members of a local Buddhist group some of them on roller skates. . To charge aliens fee for seeking Legal status Wash Noton not the Rea  administration under rules to be issued this week plans to charge a Basic application fee of is 85 for most illegal aliens seeking Legal status under the new immigration Law. However the fee would be Only $50 for children under 18. The government will offer Legal status to families in a package Deal for $420, according to a confidential draft of proposed regulations signed by Alan c Nelson the commissioner of immigration and naturalization. For a family of four ilk Ai aliens it might Cost $700 10 obtain ital status when the Cost of medical examinations and other charges Are included. The fees would be pan of a program under which illegal aliens can apply for Legal status or amnesty thai is to Start in seven weeks. Aliens May file applications from May 5. 1987, through May 4, i9s8, at any of 100 special offices to be established around the country. To qualify illegal aliens must show that they entered the United states be fore Jan. 1,1982, and have resided Here continuously since then with no single absence of More than 45 Days. The cumulative total of All absences in thai period must not exceed Iso Days. Under the proposed rules there would be a $50 fee for any alien who appeals a decision denying Legal status. Aliens would have to obtain medical examinations which could Cost $60 to $75. In addition Many aliens might have to pay lawyers fees although _ Church groups and Community organizations will offer assistance at Little or no charge. Under the rules there would be a limit of 1420 on the application fees payable by a family defined As Hus band wife and children under 18. The rules also list documents that May be submitted in support of an application such As pay stubs income tax withholding forms Utility Bills or Bank Buzzard sunday presages Spring Hinckley. Ohio a about 45 Buigard were spotted flying Over this town sunday and their arrival was greeted As a Harbinger of Spring de spite the Snow covered landscape. The return of the Birds set off a Day of festivities with 5.500 people flock ing to a Park and looking skyward thousands More attended a Pancake breakfast and other Buzzard sunday events. A live Bumard from Cleve museum of natural history was displayed. The first Buzzard to make its annual return id Hinckley township about 30 Miles South of Cleveland was sighted at 9 17 a.m., said Cleveland metro Park Ranger it. Edwin foils. We saw four Birds but then they disappeared. It s the official beginning of Spring for us even though we have Snow a storm dumped 6 inches of Snow in Northeast Ohio on saturday but skies were Clear when the Birds were sighted. Few other confirmed sightings were reported until late afternoon. Foils said. Legend says the Birds were first attracted to the area by the scent of thaw ing game carcasses that had Frozen after a Hunt in Isis records of the March 15 Spellings have been kept for 30 years. 52% oppose Contra Aid poll says new York Dpi a majority of americans favor cutting ofor All military Aid to Contra forces in Nicaragua Ana believe . Troops Are Lickl to Light there someday a time Magazine poll showed. Fifty two percent of the 1.014 adults curve cd supported ending All Miti tur Aid to the rebels fighting against the sandinista government said the poll re leased sunday. It said 26 percent favored sending the rebels More assistance while 22 percent were not sure. Of those questioned in the phone sur vey 32 percent said it was very Likely that . Troops someday would fight in Nicaragua. Another 39 percent said it was somewhat Likely that . Forces would engage in combat Here. Twenty nine percent said they though it was not  the Magazine said the margin of error in the poll which was taken feb. 18 and 19, was 3 percent. Last week the mouse approved a Sis Manly moratorium on . Aid to the Comra rebels. Statements showing residence in inc United Stales. The administration says the legalization program must be financed entirely with aliens application fees using no Money from other sources. Lawmaker and hispanic lobbyists said the result ing fees were so High that they would discourage some aliens from applying. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 17, 1947 an  announcement from Elpaso Texas revealed that living organisms survived the penetration of the ionosphere for the first time in the warhead of a captured German v2 rocket. 30 years ago  17, 1957 Spring like weather encouraged thousands of spectators to flock to Green striped fifth ave nue to watch new York s annual St. Pat Rick s Day Parade. 20 years ago today March 17, 1967 Perry Russo. A Isaic witness in new Orleans District at Torney Jim Garrison s assassination Case against Clay Shaw testified that he had been hypnotized three times in the Par ish Coroner s office. Garrison accused Shaw of conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald and David w. Ferric to shoot presi Dent Kennedy j 0 years ago today. March 17. 1977 unidentified gunmen assassinated leftist Leader Kama Jum Blau As he was travelling to his Home in the Hilly shout Region South or Beirut. Lebanon