European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 28 the stars and stripes monday april 4,1 bus traditional easter observances held nation celebrates the resurrection by inc a oiled press greek Bakers in Detroit worked Over time making easter bread a Small Illi Nois town carried on a russian woman decorating tradition and pastors All Over worried hat the Start of Daylight saving Lime would make parishioners tardy to easier service. In Eastern Texas where tornadoes ripped through East Mountain Mound City glad water and Union Grove Fri Day night hundreds of people spent easter weekend cleaning up debris. Pastor Dick Lindsey feast Mountain Baptist Church said sunday s service would focus on the storm that damaged or destroyed 46 Homes. Even though we be gone through difficulties and a loss of property Here Hill Hope and that s Whai the resurrection is All about a new life Lindsey said saturday Many pastors shared a less serious worry on easier eve whether Congre Gants would remember to set their clocks an hour ahead before going to bed i know there s been concern said pastor William Deheyman of redeemer lutheran Church in Philadelphia. It was a Siutyk drawbridge not an unset clock that delayed the easter Bunny from its appointed round sat urday morning in grand Haven mich.,where the local Jaycees held up their egg Hunt until the guest of Honor could arrive. For sunday s easter Eft Hunt in Terre haute ind., organizers were plotting How to foil parents who cheat to help their children win prizes. More than1,000 children were expect cd to participate in the event at Deming Park in one of Indiana biggest annual Caster egg Hunts. In the past adults have pointed win Ning number on eggs or found the Cov eted Gold and Silver eggs and passed them off to heir kid Taid Cor to Schoffstall of the american legion which sponsors the event. Sixty monitors were to be on hand to keep parents from collecting any of the nearly 2,000 hidden eggs. We could use also Selu frslallsaid7 for More than so years passers by i Bement 111., marvelled at the thousands of coloured eggs plastic rabbits and ducks and statues of geese and goslings that adorned Zenaida Drake s Yard. Although Drake died last fall at age 73, her spirit lives on thanks to some old fashioned Community spirit and her husband. Bill who donated the decorations to the Dement Community coun cil. Some of the Council members went to the Drake Home on Friday and the be men girl scout troop pitched in to set out the same decorations thai the rus Sian bom woman had displayed far nearly half a Century Many of which she had made herself. She always told us that in inc old country they decorated for easter like we do for Christmas so she brought the tradition with her said Gary Jennings president of the Council. A 60-year tradition in new Orleans of showing off live bunnies before easter May be dropped next year says the Flo Rist who sets up the elaborate display. The fenced in display in which Doz ens of adult and baby rabbits hop around a tawn or snuggle in wooden boxes Cut to resemble buildings along St. Charles Avenue opens 10 Days before easter and lasts until easter sunday. Arthur Schesnuk owner of Scheinuk lathe Florist says thousands of people come 0 see and sometimes buy the Rab bit but the display has been picketed by activists charging animal cruelty. It will be determined by the Public. If they want us to have the rabbits nest year we suggest thai they write in w us he said saturday. On Good Friday in traverse City mich., member of a youth group from Faith reformed Church carried a 120 Pound Pine Cross More than two Miles 10their Church. The Rev. Ron spend said although the youths May Bave been the Cross Christ was pm barn . It s like if you had to carry an electric chair through the streets of your town Spence Saidt Jesus died in the Ontott humiliating easier does t arrive until april 10 for greek orthodox christians but that has t delayed Holiday preparation. At the Astoria pastry shop in Detroit i greek town District Token were Busy All Day saturday mailing loaves of easier bread a Rich pastry with a red egg in it symbolizing the blood of Christ it s been crazy said Baker Dennis Osier we can t get it of fast enough owner Tasso Teftsis said he opened the shop at 6 . And there were peo ple waiting in cars they want six eight 10," he said. We re backed up Loo easter from Paga 1 America Hungary and Vietnam he Pope said. Coming from different parts of the world you reflect the universality of the Church inc Universal Range of the re the easter Vigil Marks the emergence of the world s b-10 million catholics out of he 40-Day penitential season of Lent into easter the Church s most important feast. Catholic among other christians believe that Jesus divinity was con firmed by his resurrection on inc third Day after his crucifixion outside the Walls of Jerusalem. Easier sunday Marks inc Celebration of the resurrection. To is traditional for the easter Vigil to Stan near Midnight Bill Al St. Peter s it begins Al mid evening to enable the Pope to get a fill night s sleep before his easier sunday celebrations. The pontiff who usually spends the hours before the Vigil in private prayers interrupted his devotions saturday to receive Secretary of stale George Shultz in a half hour audience. The Vatican said they discussed the peace Mission to inc Middle East that Shutlz was to begin sunday after attend ing the Pope s easter sunday mass. The Vatican also said they discussed East West detente and developments in can iral America. The Pope a Vatican statement said showed great interest in attempts to find a solution acceptable to All panics in tie Middle East and guaranteeing the rights both of the palestinians and the slate of Israel. God bless your Effort John Paul told the Secretary of state As they posed for pictures. The Pope made a similar interruption in his easter schedule to meet with Schuliz two years ago. John Paul was to celebrate easier mass in is. Peter s Square at 10 30 am. Then climb to the Central Balcony of the Basilica the world s largest Christian Church to deliver a traditional address to the people of Rome and the world unrest from Page 1 ral army jeeps raced to intercept them. There was a Hail of rocks gunfire and tear Gas. A bus marked United Tours rolled up and tourists pressed to the windows with their cameras. On roads All around Bethlehem voting palestinians put up Stone barricades. Skirmishes with the army lasted tar hours with some protesters marching off id throw rocks Al Hie municipal building the Headquarters of mayor Eltas Freij who is viewed As a moderate. Others went to the Home of the Ashaur family in the Wadi mar District on the Edge of the City. According to Western Relief workers and to other reports the confrontation thai led to the three deaths in Gaza City began when a half dozen armed israelis in civilian clothes Riding in a Van tried to arrest a youth. The identities of the men were not known but the Relief workers said they were Shin Bolh intelligence agents. As a struggle developed Over the arrest uni formed soldiers arrived on be scene. In the struggle Jamil Kurdi 55, reportedly the father of the youth being sought came out of his Butcher shop to Rescue his son. He was reportedly shot As he histone of the soldiers with a meat Cleaver. The soldiers then opened fire killing Kurdi i Broth or Ahmed Elkurdi 40, and Ahmed Kurdi i son Alah Kurdi 21. Three other people were seriously wounded. What Aid workers described As hysteria and pro tests broke out. About a dozen trucks carrying israeli soldiers arrived and residents were taken from their Homes and beaten according to accounts from the area. The army spokesman said saturday night that in deaths in the West Bank villages of bail Libya and Dier Sudan came when patrols were attacked As they entered the villages. There was no Independent account of the attacks. Meanwhile Secretary of site George p. Schuliz in Rome saturday on the eve of a six Day trip to the Middle East predicted that he would make some Prog Ress toward peace negotiations. He said he would no abandon his efforts even if israeli and Arab leaders turned Down his initiative again. Buildup from Page 1 raid by troops on a hotel where opposition members had been Aboul to hold a news conference last Mon Day had made him worry about the continued safety of his wife and 8-year-old child and their Home on the Edge of fort Amador. Bui i Don t worry that he added with a laugh. Live next to the general s House and when he leaves 1 there arc 6,000 military and defense department personnel and dependents living off base in Panama along with More than 40,000 other americans Many of them working in jobs related to the Panama canal we feel More optimistic said Rudy a dutchman who organized a building watch program at a 60 unit luxury condominium in Panama City that is Home to at least 15 american soldiers. He asked that his Ian name not be condominium s Security plans described on a mimeographed Sheet taped alongside every elevator include a special procedure in which at the first sign of a raid by troops or paramilitary thugs everyone in the 22-Story building would congregate on the fifth idea is not to enter into combat with these perpetrators the mimeographed plan said but rather to protect our properties and ourselves with the strength of hanging Tough Alto Ivy general Edwin Meese Iii to Pean at Ennis conference at us Jostle Rpu Tipeni on Friday in Washington. Meet maid he would no resign despite the Mccry Una his Rah in u i rail pipeline Diml and alleged link to lit Taa Iii planned we tech corp
