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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday August 26, 1988 North speech at fund Raiser spurs protests in Wisconsin stateside Waukesha wis. A Iran Contra defendant Oliver l. North heckled and picketed during a fund raising speech called 1988 a critical election year for the Fate of Freedom As a dozen demonstrators were arrested outside. Supporters paid up to $500 for the banquet inside the Waukesha exposition Center wednesday night while pro and anti North demonstrators gathered out Side. In the auditorium North s audience cheered Security guards when two women were escorted to an exit after interrupting his speech. The Vietnam veterans Are outside protesting one of the women shouted. That Little disruption was a remarkable testament to the Constitution of the United states North said contrasting american Freedom of speech with censorship in the soviet Union. Demonstrators estimated from 125 to 200, gathered outside the Hall before North arrived. Authorities said there was shoving and that some objects were thrown. Twelve were taken into custody Deputy sheriff Terry Martorano said. The Waukesha county sheriffs office said 11 were eventually booked on disorderly conduct charges. Two also were charged with resisting arrest and on for Possession of a controlled substance Martorano said. Most posted Bond within a few hours and could receive court dates within two weeks. North a retired Marine lieutenant colonel was National Security aide to president Reagan when accused of a role in the Iran Contra affair. His appearance was part of a fund raising swing shared with Stephenb. King a candidate for the Republican nomination for the . Senate. The Fate of Freedom could Well be determined by the 1988 elections said North who was promised$25,000 for his Legal defense fund. The leadership of the modern Day democratic party is not willing to pay the Price for  How Sweet if is Mars family ranked As wealthiest clan in . New York a the Mars Candy bar clan is Worth $12.5 billion surpassing the Newhouse publish ing dynasty As the richest family in America Fortune Magazine reports. If Fortune s estimate is Correct the Worth of the Mars family could buy about 25 billion regular size snickers bars which if Laid end to end would Circle the planet Mars nearly 32 times. The Magazine s calculation is More than any pre Vious estimate of the wealth of the secretive family which shuns publicity about itself and its Candy bar company maker of snickers and a is. Mars assets Are often underestimated because the company is As Loose with information As its Mclean va., neighbor the Cia Fortune said wednesday in an Advance press release about its 1988 billionaires list to be carried in the sept. 12 Issue available on Newsstands next monday. The Magazine said it based the estimate of the Mars family wealth on what comparable food concerns have sold for recently. Thus Forrest Mars and his three children Forrest jr., John and Jacqueline overtake the Newhouse pub Lishing magnates As the richest americans Fortune said. Still the Mars clan ranks no. 3 on Fortune s world wide list. The richest remains the Sultan of Brunei whose Oil wealth makes him Worth $25 billion. Next is King fahd and family of saudi Arabia Worth $18 billion. Fourth is Britain s Queen Elizabeth ii with $8.7 billion next Are the new houses whose communications holdings Are Worth $8 billion in sixth place is retail King Sam Walton founder of Wal Mart stores and family Worth $7.4 billion seventh is Canada s Reichmann family with $6.3 billion in assets that Range from Swank new York real estate to interests in where the wealthy invest in percent most popular real estate stocks Money Market passbook savings least popular 58 junk Bonds commodities precious metals Oil or Gas investments held by those with annual income of $100,000 or More or a net Worth of $500,000 Chicago Tribune graphics source Cigna corp. Railroads and utilities. Eighth is Kenneth Irving and family a Canadian clan that owns 400 companies Worth $6.2 billion ninth is Kenneth Thomson and family Canadian own ers of a publishing retailing Energy and real estate Empire Worth $6 billion and in 10th place is Gerald Grosvenor and family British land Barons Worth $5.4billion. Of the 129 individuals and nuclear families that comprise this year s list there Are 51 in the unite states 38 in Europe 19 in Asia including 12 Japa Nese 13 arabs and eight others Fortune said. Jackson ends three Day fast Chicago a with the symbolic passing of a Small Cross made of grape vines the Rev. Jesse Jack son ended a three Day fast and vowed to wage a continuing Boycott against California table grapes. Jackson who received the Cross from Cesar Chavez As the president of the United farm workers Union ended a 36-Day water Only fast ended his fast wednes Day and passed the Cross to the Rev. Joseph Lowery president of the Southern Christian leadership con Ference. Lowery of Atlanta said he will fast until saturday when he will hand the Cross to actors Martin Sheen and Robert Blake who will fast. I have fasted with Cesar Chavez Jackson said. I have shared the pain. I want to be a better person. I want to be an even More committed person to the workers and the abandoned families who Harvest the food we  wednesday s ceremony occurred outside a jewel co. Food store but Jackson and other demonstrators stressed they were not calling for a Boycott of the supermarket Chain Only a Boycott of the grapes which the Ufa maintains Are treated with pesticides danger Ous to farm workers. The Union contends pesticides contribute to cancer miscarriages and birth defects among those who pick grapes. California table grape growers acknowledge that four pesticides Are used but say the same chemicals Are sprayed on other vegetables and fruits and pose no health risk. A spokesman for California table grape growers said Chavez is targeting the Industry because the Union does not have any contracts with growers. That s the Bottom line spokesman Adam Ortega said from los Angeles. They re accusing stores of Selling poisoned grapes. That s not True. They re scare  Hubert Humphrey ill s plane makes emergency Landing St. Paul Minn. A a Small plane carrying attorney general Hubert h. Humphrey Iii made an emergency Landing wednesday in a Northwestern Minnesota Field a spokeswoman for Humphrey s . Senate Campaign said. The six seat Beechraft Bonanza landed about 4 30 . After apparently developing engine difficulty about 10 minutes earlier said Karen Chandler press Secretary for the Humphre Campaign. She said the four people aboard suffered no injuries. The Campaign aide said the private plane Wasen route from St. Paul to Moorhead where Humphrey was to attend two fund raisers and meeting wednesday evening of the attorney Gen eral s task Force on prevention of violence against women. . Senator admitted to Hospital in Bethesda Bismarck . A sen. Quentin Bur Dick d-., was admitted to a Hospital according to his wife. The 80-year-old Burdick a member of the Senate since 1960, was hospitalized wednesday at the National naval medical Center at Bethesda md., said his wife Jocelyn. Mrs. Burdick refused to say Why her husband was hospitalized but said she talked to him wednesday night and he was Fine. Duty officers at the Hospital declined com ment late wednesday. Burdick is running for re election this year against Earl Strinden the longtime Republican majority Leader in the state House. Democratic leaders last year urged Burdick notto run for another six year term because of his age. Burdick was hospitalized four Days in Decem Ber for a concussion after he slipped on some ice and struck his head. 1 St Black chosen As head of . Employees Union Miami Beach Fla. A the american federation of government employees has elected John n. Sturdivant president making him the first Black to Lead the 750,000-member Union. The 50-year-old Fairfax county va., resident Defeated 12-year president Kenneth t. Blaylock 83,496 to 79,068 in ballots from the Union s 15districts, spokeswoman Janice Lachance said wednesday. Sturdivant had served As executive vice presi Dent since 1982. Previously he worked on the staff at Headquarters in Washington . He joined the Federal government in 1961 As an employee at the army inter Agency communications Agency in Winchester a. Lachance said Sturdivant is the first Black president of a Large labor Union. The age represents government workers at 1,380 locals in the United states Europe and the Pacific Region. Museum recovers objects Security guard charged by the Baltimore Sun Baltimore the Walters Art gallery has recovered 145 objects that were stolen from the museum 64 More than were reported missing. A Security supervisor has been charged. Gregory Bartgis 30, was charged with one count of felony theft with other counts pending police said wednesday. Bail has been set at $ . The objects were recovered in a tuesday night raid by police and Fri agents at the Govans md., Home where Bartgis lives with his parents. Included were 84 scholarly books dealing with asian Art from the Walters 80,000-volume reference Library. Walters director Robert p. Bergman said wednesday that the additional 64 items recovered could put the total value of the objects Sto Len at $ 1 million or More  
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