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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday december 10,1987 stateside Buick offers incentives on Park Avenue Model cars Flint Mich up Buick is offering a Choice of Price discounts or Down payment Rcd in on inc 1987 Model and inc car s 1988 Succes Sor. Customers who Lake delivery of the eligible Park Avenue models from dec. 7, 1987, through Jan 11, 1988. Have the option of receiving ii ,500 Check from Buick or the equivalent As a Down payment credit he a i maker said Buick earlier had announced incentive pro Gram on new 1987 and i9s8 la Sabre coupes and scans and i9br a Murys. As Well As in creased savings on option packages for 1988 skylarks and can turns. Retail buyers of eligible 1987 and 1988 be Sabre coupes and sedans and 1988 can turns have he option of either free air conditioning or $600 Cash Back. The air conditioning is listed As a $775 value. The program began nov. 15 and ends Jan. 11. $1,500 Reward offered for school s Cornerstone san i to a a 11,500 Reward is being offered for the return of a Cornerstone and the 1912 time capsule it was believed to conceal i a thieves chiselled out of defunct  a ool. Some if in fill s alumni who include for Mer defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and George fran can Groucho Marx s one time television foil posted a third of the Reward. The res was put up by a Contr actor hired to Demol ish the building which was closed in 977. Frank Buscaino class of 1953, said the school s former students left the Cornerstone in place because they though it was like a 400 Pound Stone that would be  however the Cornerstone was Only a faceplate covering an opening in the bricks. As a result it was easy last week Lor ii.1 -5 to remove it. Buscai suspects Ali from rival school could be Uilama. Cuban Detainee sieges May be stuff for movie Miami a two Hollywood producers have talked to an attorney for Bishop Aguslin roman about making a movie of the cuban Detainee sieges at Federal prisons in Atlanta and Oakdale. La., the lawyer said tuesday. But lawyer Rafael Peni Ilver said the cuban born auxiliary Bishop is not interested and is just Loo Busy to get involved in movie making. Roman played a key role in ending the rebel lion by giving his Blessing to he negotiated settlements to release hostages held by cuban in mates who did no want to be deported Back to Cuba. Both sieges ended peacefully will the inmates giving up their hostages after roman Mei with them. Agnos trounces Molinari in san Francisco mayor race san Francisco a newly elected mayor Art Agnos said his overwhelming Victory Over City supervisor John Molinari proves politics can Slilo be Long to the  Agnes a Liberal assemblyman who began his grass roots Campaign As an underdog More than eight months ago. Handed a stunning defeat tuesday to Molinari the one time front runner who was considered mayor Dianne Fin Stein s heir apparent. With All 711 precincts reporting. Agnos garnered 101,519 Voles or 69.5 percent to Mol Mari s 43,566 Voles or 29.8 percent in the Runoff election. Several write in candidates received a total of 914 votes or .7 percent. I promised you that in this Campaign we were going to make a difference Agnos told jubilant sup porters. It was going to be a Campaign thai every san franciscan could be proud of and together we kept that pledge a proved that in 1987 in san Francisco politics can Sliff belong to the people said Agnos a greek immigrant s son who arrived in san Francisco on a greyhound bus in 1966 with 1500, he was elected to the state Assembly in 1976, the non partisan Post of mayor pays $112,084 a year. In a Surprise move Molinari who was raised in the City s italian North Beach Section made an appearance at Agnos Campaign Headquarters after conceding de feat. I have come Here tonight to congratulate him on his tremendous Victory  10 pledge to him my cooperation in making this City great. Because i believe the people of san Francisco want Art and me to do that Malinari said. As the City s 37th mayor Agnos inherits a growing number of aids patients and a major league baseball franchise inc san Francisco giants that wants to leave town unless it gets a new stadium. More minor tally he will Lead inc City of almost 700,000 for inc next four years beginning with a predicted $67 million budget deficit Lor the coming fiscal year. If it s not eliminated the City com roller warns that up to 1,300 workers must be Laid off. Late in the Campaign the 49-year-old Agnos was Given a 3-1 Edge Over his 52-year-old rival who de scribed hims Las a centrist. Agnos and Molinari together spent More than $3 million on the Campaign and found themselves the lop iwo vote getters in a Field of it on the november ballot a Runoff was required because no candidate received More than 50 percent. Molinari a 16-year supervisor and current president of inc Board of supervisors slipped steadily in popu Larity As his Campaign took on a mudslinging image even though he was endorsed by fins twin. Feint twin 53, has served As mayor for nine Yean. She took Over when George Moscone was assassinated by supervisor Dan while who also gunned Down the City s first openly homosexual supervisor Harvey milk in november 1978. She has acknowledged that she i considering a bid in 990 for governor of Cali fornia. Energy department denies report of finalist list for super Collider Washington a a congressional aide a wednesday he has been told thai Illinois Utah new Mexico Colorado Texas and North Carolina have been selected As finalists for the $4.4 billion super Collider atom smasher however he Energy depart ment denied that finalists had been chosen. The congressional aide confirming reports in the Chicago to Bune and inc Dallas morning news said the identities of the six Stales came from Energy department sources working with a National Academy of sciences selection panel for the atom smasher sought by 25 Stales the Academy s project chief also denied that a list of finalists had been compiled. The Tribune said Arizona also was on the list and the morning news said Mississippi and California Mir be added to but the congressional aide said department sources had not confirmed that. It s the Academy s list said the aide to a member of inc House science space and technology commit tee. The aide has been involved in the House Mem Ber s efforts to eel the super Collider for his state since the beginning of the selection process. Phil Keif a department spokesman said it s not True there May be such a list but it s not our list and it s nol the Academy s list. The Academy has t com piled such a list yet. When they do Well announce 11 with full  Raphael Kasper executive director for the facade my s commission on physical sciences end director of the Sile selection project said we Don t have a report or a Lis cd. That list does not look like any list i be seen he said referring to the six slates named by the congressional aide. The Academy is charged by inc department with winnowing he candidate Sites to a Short list from which Energy Secretary John Harrington is to make inc final selection next july Harrington is to confirm the final selection before the Reagan administration leaves office in january 1989. The Short list is scheduled to be submitted to the department next month Kif said. The Collider would whirl beams of protons together with 20 times the Energy now possible to probe the deepest secrets of the origin of Mailer. It would be placed in an underground Tunnel 53 mites around. The project will create thousands of construction jobs employ 2,500 people and have an annual budget of $ 270 million. Baldwin eulogized As spokesman for his people1 new York a More than 2,000 friends relatives and admirers of the literary firebrand James Baldwin heard him eulogized tuesday As god s Black revolutionary  the son of Harlem who told its Story to the world. He reported criticized made Beautiful Analysed cajoled lyrics cd. Attacked Sang made us think made us better made us consciously human or perhaps More acidly Predhuman writer Amiri Barak Asaid. He Sang of our lives and our needs and our will to  then a recording of Baldwin s deep voice echoed through the vast Cathedral of is. John the divine. It was punctual cd by the cries of his Mother Burdes Bald win. Lead me on through the night he Sang. Precious lord Lake my hand and Lead me  Baldwin author of co Tell it on the Mountain and notes of a native son died of cancer nov. 30, at his Home in St. Paul de Vence France. He was 63. His father a Lay preacher had ordained him As a minister is years ago and he preached As a teen Ager in a store front Church in Harlem a few blocks but a Jong Way from he vaulting Cathedral where his life was celebrated tuesday. Actors Ossie Davis and Ruby dec were there along with Singer Bobby Short and Manhattan Borough president David Dinkins. But most of the crowd were a celebrated attending Only be cause Baldwin s works had inspired them or Given them voice. Baldwin wrote with a lean and targeted Power replacing lumbering Pla Elitude with undecorated Rulh said novelist Toni Morrison. He gave Blacks inc courage to appropriate an alien hostile All White Geog Raphy. This world is White no More and it never will be White  Morri son said. Emmanuel do mar cric inc French ambassador to the United states said Baldwin was regarded in the land of Voltaire and Zola As a Man of principle and dedication As a spokesman for his  France had divert him inc legion of Honor its highest award last year with inc passing of Baldwin where Are the Black writers who will dare to confront this racist nation asked writer Maya Angelou. Angelou devoted her tribute to remembrances of her Long Friendship Wilh Baldwin whom she met in France More than 30 years ago. Black women May find lovers on Street Corners or even in Church pews but Brothers Are More rare she said. James Baldwin is my  the tributes were intermingled with music an african drum Salute spirituals and a Bluesy Horn Salute thai embroidered on when the saints go marching  Jimmy Baldwin was not Only a writer an International literary figure said Baraka he was Man spirit voice old and Black and  Baldwin will be buried in the suburb of Ardsley  
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