European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 16, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 help others mrs. Bush urges grads commencement address of tiny women s College by the associated press firs lady Barbara Bush urged graduates of tiny Bennett College in greens Boro n.c., to heed the example set by 19th Century Black activist Frederick Douglass and help people enslaved by ignorance to become educated Mem Bers of society. Someday in your lives the Walls will part and you la Sec a Little Frederick Doug lass mrs. Bush said in a commencement address sunday at the predominantly Black Liberal arts College for women. In Laramie wyo., defense Secretary Dick Cheney told members of the graduating class at the University of Wyom ing thai diplomacy must be used if Pana Manian Leader Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega is to be removed from Power. Cheney adopting a moderate tone a Day after president Bush urged the Pana Manian people to drive Noriega from Power said support from other South american leaders would help the administration s efforts to encourage the Gener Al s departure. "1 think whatever you do is going to have to be done diplomatically the for Mer Wyoming congressman said. At Greensboro mrs. Bush who was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by the College which was founded in 1873, said. I Hope that you will remember the abiding principles and values that we Learned when we were Young and i Hope you will say i want Tobe fair and i want to share it can be done and i want to help you do she said Douglass had been one of her heroes since she read the autobiography of the one time slave who became a scholar and writer. The speech was the Only commence ment address mrs. Bush will deliver this year her press Secretary. Anna Perez said. The first lady accepted Bennett s invitation because she met the College s Barbara Bush honors Flag before giving commencement address at Bennett College. President Gloria r. Scott in a while House Rose Garden ceremony earlier this year Perez said. At Laramie Cheney who was Hon ored As a distinguished alumni of the University said it would help if the other latin american nations would come together and make it Clear thai they won t Deal with a panamanian government headed by Noriega. The organization of american states will meet next week. If they take a Lough Strong position and join in supporting for example the . Economic sanctions those kinds of things might conceivably ultimately result in his Depar Ture he said. Cheney praised Bush for his decision to Send . Troops to Panama. I think in was a necessary move it was a step thai a prudent Man would he said. We be got some 40,000 americans who Ive in Panama we be got major obligations. Under the pan Ama canal at other College commencements around the nation sunday supreme court Justice Sandra Day o Connor told 210 graduating seniors at Rockford College in Rockford iii., that the key to rising to the top is spending time at the o Connor the Only woman appointed to the nation s highest court said she launched her career collecting unpaid grocery Bills in a Law office. Chrysler corp. Chairman 2,100 seniors at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Easl Rutherford. N.j., that the american Century is Over and it Stime to get mad and Iacocca pointed to a $2.7 trillion debt poor education and a double Standard in competing with other countries As factors in the decline in provided free and open Access to our markets for example he said. But a allowed Many other countries to shut out our products so their industries could rebuild free from american it did t cps much until recent he said. Bui in the roaring 80s. The chickens finally came Home to Roost. All Ofa sudden we began swimming in red sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. D . Lold More than 5.000 seniors a Syracuse University and 270 graduating students from the slate University of new York College of environmental Sci ence that the age of totalitarianism is it Means you Aren t going logo Lowar he said. You arc i going to die before Ever having lived. Civilization is nol going to die. The planet is not going to sen. Alfonso d Amato. R-., echoed his colleague s sentiments whence told More than 500 students at St. Bonacc Turc univ Cisily in Olean. N.y., the great nightmares that haunted the lives of your parents and my general Ion the twin terrors of nuclear War an totalitarian aggression today seem to be fading civil rights Pioneer Rosa Parks spoke to 78 graduating seniors Al Brad Ford College in Haverhill mass., and received an honorary degree. Ins Leader prayed partied with Marcos video shows Honolulu a a High ranking i Migra lion official embraced Ferdinand Marcos danced with his wife Imelda and led a prayer for a Miracle to permit the Marc oses to return to the Philippines videotape of a party shows. The prayer which appeared to run contrary to . And philippine policy that the former president not be allowed to return came Al the end of a three hour party at the Marcos estate in Honolulu aug. 3, the Honolulu advertiser reported in its sunday editions. The videotape showed Harold Ezcell the Western Region commissioner for the . Immigration and service and other ins officials fro several Western states being wined dined and enter lain cd by hawaiian and filipino dancers and singers. Al the Peak of festivities Imelda Marcos pulled Ezell to his feet and danced with him to the beat of Don t throw my love away the advertiser said in describing the videotape. Eat your heart out Ezcell called Oul As he danced. Ezell s wife whose name was nol released then pulled Marcos to the floor and danced in front of him while Marcos shuffled a Lillic and raised his hands to copy her disco moves said the newspaper which did not reveal the source of the videotape. Later Ezell embraced Marcos in front of the Assem bled crowd and called on ins officials present to join him in praying for a Miracle that would allow mar cos to return to the Philippines the videotape shows. Ezell s subordinate. District immigration director William Craig said the party has turned out to be a magnificent Blunder for the Agency which he soon regretted and which caused him to consider resigning. Bui an internal ins investigation of the party concluded there was no wrongdoing and resulted in no disciplinary action or reprimands Craig said. We All agreed that that was possibly Lousy judgment and if we had to do ii again no Craig told the paper. Marcos his wife and about 70 others in the Marcos entourage in Honolulu arc under Craig s Jurisi diction according to a 1986 agreement worked Oul by the Reagan administration to bring Marcos to the United slates. In october the couple was indicted on racketeering charges thai they looted More than $100 million from the Philippines before Marcos was deposed. Marcos 71, has since been hospitalized in Honolulu for heart and respiratory ailments and prosecutors have con ceded he is Loo ill to stand trial. They Are proceeding with criminal charges against mrs. Marcos 59. Camp near uranium Plant closed Over radiation fear Sands of time Cincinnati a a children s sum Mer Camp located two Miles from a uranium processing Plant closed sunday because of concerns Over radiation poisoning. The roman Catholic archdiocese of Cincinnati which owns fort Scott Camp announced last month it would permanently close the 67-year-old retrial near the government s Fernald uranium Plant. Residents of the area surrounding the Camp have filed a j300 million class action lawsuit against the former operators of the Plant contending they allowed radioactive dust to contaminate local land water and air for three decades. The Energy department has conceded that figures it released in the past Mea Suring the amount of radiation were too Low and said it is revising them. The plan processes uranium for use in nuclear weapons making facilities. The Camp in Crosby township North of Cincinnati opened in 1922 and provided recreation for More than 150,000 campers Over the years. Debbie Bonkamp a member of the fort Scott Camp advisory Board said she disagreed Wuh the decision to close he facility. We Felt there was no danger with the environment she said. We d had the water and soil tested each year and it was always she said the advisory Board had sus Pended operations at the Camp for the summer because of dwindling enrol men but hoped the enrolment would ounce Back next year. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 16. 1949 speaking Al an outdoor rally at Madison Square Garden in new i Ork during the Celebration of Israel s first birthday. Vice president Alben a bark Ley said that the Stabl Ishmonl of Israel had been a Triumph for 30 years ago today. May 16. 1959 cuban Premier Fidel Castro announced that Cuba s revolution Ary War crimes trials would be ended and that All pending cases would be turned Over to civil courts. 20 years ago foday. May 16. 1969 under mounting pressure and the Threal of impeachment proceedings from the House judiciary com Millie jul slice Abe Fortas announced his resignation from the supreme court. 10 years ago foday. May 16. 1979 president Carter announced he would ask Congress for an overhaul of the Federal pay system that could save an estimated $4.6 billion per year by holding Down pay raises of government employees for several years
