European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday. May 17,1989 actor Ian Mckellon and Glenys Kinlock wife of opposition party Leader Neil Kinlock Toast a puppet of William Shakespeare at the Rose theater site shown at right. Shakespeare site saved from bulldozers for now London a the government played the hero monday in a drama to save a theater where William shake Speare performed retrieving the archaeological site for a month with a $1.65 million pledge to a building Developer. The reprieve hours before bulldozing was to begin followed a nigh Long pro test Vigil on the Muddy site of the Rose theater and a morning of meetings by the environment department the state funded English heritage and developers who want to build a Block of offices. Environment Secretary Nicholas rid Ley told the House of commons that the government intervened because knowl Edge unearthed in the lust two to three Days shows the remains arc far More important than thought the Rose found five months ago i excavations for the building is the Only elizabethan theater Ever discovered. Its More famous neighbor the Globe has disappeared. It was for this special reason and on this one occasion that it seems right that the government should have financed the delay so that forces determined to preserve it should have the right to do so said Ridley who is responsible for ancient monuments. The delay will enable developers and their architects to work with English heritage and the environment department on various options he said. We All Hope that the theater can not Only be preserved. But made permanently available to the a drawing by historian c. Walter Hodges shows How the Rose theater looked in elizabethan times based on information from the remains in London. But under Sharp questioning from legislators he said i could not forecast the outcome of what will be from the site of the continuing Vigil shakespearean actor Ian Mccllen told bbl to we will Only be Happy and leave when the minimum requirements Are achieved when Access for it is available for anybody who wants to Sec other opponents of the construction plan include sir Laurence Olivier Dame Peggy Ashcroft Dustin Hoffman Dame Judi Dunch Derek Jacobi Edward Fox and Kate o Mara. Shakespeare is thought to have acted in his play Henry i at the Rose. The developers imry merchants Al ready have financed five months of excavations. They say they will preserve the theater by burying the remains under tons of Sand and gravel. Archaeologists say this would damage the fragile re Mains and keep them from Public Ridley did not mention a figure but a department spokesman said the govern ment and English heritage would con tribute up to $1.65 million to any costs of the month s a spokesman for the developers who also spoke on condition of anonymity said he could not estimate the Cost. In the commons Anthony Beaumont dark of the governing conservative party said the government instead should spend Money on living if every archaeological find were pre served he said London would be com posed of the ruins of Ridley answered if we were to deny archaeology. I suppose we were to deny lawmaker Simon Hughes whose District includes the theater site on the South Bank of the thames River asked Ridley for Assurance that construction piles will not be driven through the site but he received none. The developers plan to drive Concrete piles Iso feet deep at the site where surviving bricks and mortar clearly map the theater s two stages Walls and auditorium. Quayle explains Happy campers Togo Pogo by the Baltimore Sun vice president Dan Quayle in an Exchange of let ters with american Samoa s representative in con Gress has sought to Clear up his puzzling reference to samoans As Happy Quayle explained that Happy campers is a term that i use with my kids and that he had used it in speaking to a crowd at the Pago Pago Airport that included Many children. Some samoans complained that Quayle s remark made during a Brief Stop in Pago i ago last month had patronizing and condescending connotations wrote eni . Faleo Mavaega the territory s non voting Delegate in the House of representatives. The use of this term with which i am not personally familiar has created quite a stir Falc Mavaega noted. It appears that some individuals have even drawn the conclusion that you were implying that the people of Samoa Are simple illiterate natives happily camped out in the Quayle Only made matters worse by mispronounce ing Pago Pago As Pogo Pogo. Like the comic strip which caused some to question whether you were again ridiculing the samoan people the Delegate wrote. He told the vice president that any clarification of your statements would put these fears to rest and would be most Quayle in a response dated May 8, explained that the reference was one that i make to kids and Noth ing in his april 24 remarks Quayle urged the school children to keep that commitment to family values and education and keep that commitment to just being Happy he went on to say but you All look like Happy campers to me. Happy campers you Are. Happy Camp ers you have been. And As far As i m concerned Happy campers you will always As for his mispronunciation of Pago Pago made the following Day in Australia Quayle pleaded Jet lag. I had been on the plane for 42 hours he wrote. If you have Ever travelled that far you know that some times Jet lag can catch up with Falc Mavaega who makes the 15,000-Rmlc round trip from Washington to Pago Pago every six or eight weeks according to an aide was out of town monday and unavailable for comment
