European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday. July 22, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 borrowed sculpture returns in pieces priceless porcelain piece was on exhibit in Moscow Trenton no. A a porcelain sculpture of mute swans joined by the while House for a Moscow is Lishu arrived Back in the United status in hundreds of pieces. Us maker announced monday. The life size Birds of peace Sculp Ture was one of three copies made from master holds thai were Ihnn destroyed in 1974, said Helen Belim owner of bochum studios the shards of broken porcelain were spread out on a table before her in her studio the slender neck of one Bird Sev ered and he arching while feathers of Bolh bluntly broken off and shattered into hundreds of pieces. About half the 48 pieces in the exhibit were damaged in transit bochum said the peace Birds Are in pieces they re completely busted. I be been cry ing for two Days she said. The White swans stand three feel High and face each other on a three foot Long base. The neck of one is extended and the other s neck curls inward. Two Cyl nets or Young swans stand beneath them on the base which depicts a Natu ral Selling of rocks and grass. One of the two remaining Culpi ures was Given to Mao tsp lung by president in on during his 1972 China visit and is on display in Beijing. The other is in Ilic Vatican a gift from an Anonymous donor who purchased it in 1976 for $150,000, the highest Price Ever paid for a 20lh Century porcelain sculpture one cannot place a value on them. They arc priceless because they Are no replaceable Boehm said. She said the intricate and detailed sculpture of the pair of mute swans took to years to create and that 10 tons of plaster were used to make inc master holds. The sculpture was borrowed from the White House for the six week show which bochum opened May 16 with Raisa Gorbachev wife of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Vassili Zakharov the minister of culture. The show was sponsored by industrialist Armand Hammer a longtime Friend of bochum s. White House spokeswoman le1yc Arsht said monday Nigil thai she had no information about the incident. The sculpture had been a gift by Boehm studios 1o the White House historical society in i 7s. Bochum said the pieces were packed by bochum cup Lorees last week fur the trip from Moscow. They arrived at Joh Kennedy International Airport this weekend. The exhibit win sent 10 the soviet Union on a soviet Airliner but returned via Lufthansa the German National air line and finn air said Frank j. Cosemino president of bochum studios. He said the shipment was insured but he would not say for How much officials from Lufthansa and finn air could not immedi Allcy be reached for comment. Bochum said the porcelain sculpture was inspired by an encounter she had with Nixon after he commissioned inc studio in i 969 for sculptures to give to head of slate he visited during a nato Lour. When Nixon Laler acc plod her Dona Linn of a permanent bochum collection to the White House a reporter asked if Here were any doves or Hawks among the porcelain Flork. Nixon and Floc he said there were not and Hoehm suggested a new Bird of peace he named Chat did nol carry the same political baggage As the Dove. Niton gave her an unofficial assign ment to come up Wilh such a Symbol and after several months of research and consultation Willi experts around the world she settled on the mule Swan. The mule Swan represents serenity and purity a Bird thai had been associated with peace throughout history and in mythology bochum wrote in with a lilt Cluck her autobiography. The mute Swan s Range is worldwide it came to the shores of America during the 19th Century. Perhaps its most important characteristic is that in Speaks Wilh a soft voice she wrote. Birds of Pence now there arc Only to copies remaining in existence. 3-foot Gator found in Florida family s Pool St. Petersburg Fla. A a couple resumed Home from Church to find a Small Alligator using the family swimming Pool. What do you do shrugged John Buchanan. The Buchanan called slate wildlife officials. They removed the 3-foot Alligator i of their Pool sunday and released it into a Lake. They said it was a year old and they thanked us for not killing it and they said it was probably gelling pretty tired of the chlorine by then said Janice Buchanan. Studio owner Helen Bochnik surveys remnants of Swan figures. 2 women sentenced in child s death Las vegas nov. A two women were sentenced monday to 20 years in prison for killing the 2-year-old daughter of one of them. Georganna Lagen and Paula Marti Neau both former air Force officers had been convicted of involuntary Man Slaughter and child abuse in the death of Michelle King Lagen s daughter. The couple allegedly Shook and beat Michelle after she defecated in her swim Ming suit three years ago. District judge William Biko allowed the women to remain free pending Appeal. I know i did t abuse Michelle. I loved Michelle said Lajcin. Michelle apparently did suffer some severe head injury but i Don t kno Whai happened the sentencing came three years and a. Day after the girl was fatally injured at a Home Lagen and Martineau shared. The most vulnerable victim we have in society is a child particularly a 27 month old girl that cannot defend her self said prosecutor Bill Cooper. An initial investigation into the death produced no charges but the girl s father air Force capt. Peter King uncovered Evi Dence that led 10 appointment of a special state prosecutor who won an indictment against the women in August 1985. Cooper contended during the trial thai the evolving lesbian relationship Between the women and their ideas of disciplining Michelle and her 4-Ycar-old brother Robert led to the death. Cooper claimed the children got in the Way of the women who grew increasingly less tolerant. Following Michelle s death Lagan was discharged from the air Force after a hearing on charges of homosexuality. Martineau was honorable discharged from the service in is82. According to testimony during he trial. Signs of Ollie mania reach Hollywood los Angeles up Ollie mania swept into Linsel town Wilh a group of self described Environ mental artists changing the Hollywood sign to read Delv we Are not condoning Oliver North s void one of the men who draped a Licci of Black plastic Over the a on the sign. What he did was in direct opposition to Congress. But the american Public has embraced him As a hero and As environmental sculptors we arc simply reflect ing the Public sentiment fit said a maintenance Crew from the recreation and Parks department removed the plastic shei l la restore the sign 10 is Normal appearance. The Man who refused to give his name said Hii croup was responsible for altering tin1 sign to Biol a Weed on new year s by in i we re not making a Salem eau is or no. Mie Way or anti her he said. It s the same when we changed the sign to read Holly Weed. We Dun i consider what we did defacing Public properly or police officer Gene Ferone Saij police did nol have any suspects. We kind of think it s advertising the people s Opin Ion of it. Col. Oliver North he said. The original in Laide sign read Hollywood land in so a -3u-foul a Ellers. When ii was built in l 21. At a com of s31.000, to advertise a real estate subdivision. The land was Laler removed and the sign be came an inter nationally recognised landmark. Earlier this year pranksters from the California in Stille of technology altered the sign to
