European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 03, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday january 3,1990 the Floral Beauty of Century 21 s the world a your backyard won top honors in the Pasadena Parade. Aids protesters briefly halt tournament of roses Parade Pasadena Calif a Harmony was the theme but the tournament of roses Parade entered its second Century confronting the issues of the Day As aids activists staged a sit Down protest at the Start of the event. The Majestic procession of 60 Flower studded floats 22 bands and 275 equestrians had jus started monday when 14 protesters ran in front of a float and unfurled a Banner Reading emergency. Stop the Parade. 70,000 dead of  the group sat in the Roadway halting the 101st edition of the annual Parade for 20 seconds. Crowds booed the Brief demonstration and net work television cameras broadcasting the Parade for an estimated audience of 350 million quickly Cut away. The protesters said they were members of Stop aids now or else and wanted to show their Dis May with government policies toward the deadly disease said group spokesman Bruce Mirken. It s a Way of reminding people that for 70,000 people the Parade is Over Mirken said. An estimated 1 million people lined curbs and sidewalks to watch the Parade on a sunny Balmy  flowery head of Elvis Presley on Mississippi s float and a Jungle Barbershop quartet of Hippo Giraffe Ostrich and Tiger were especially popular with the  Boos that met the aids protesters echoed again when unrepentant cop Slapper Zsa Zsa Gabor and embattled sen. John Glenn a Ohio the Parade s grand marshal appeared later. The appearance of Gabor angered Many spectators with some screaming go to jail you Floozy. Gabor was convicted for slapping a Beverly Hills policeman who stopped her Rolls Royce last sum  also greeted Glenn one of five . Senators who received a total of $1.3 million from Charles h. Keatingjr. And met with regulators on behalf of the Lincoln savings and loan. The failure of Keating s firm is expected to Cost taxpayers More than $2 billion. In Philadelphia the annual new year s Day mummers Parade was postponed until Jan. 6 be cause of gusting wind and a threat of Snow. State treasurer Ann Richards files for Texas governor s race Austin Texas a state treasurer Ann Rich Ards filed with the democratic party on monday Mak ing official her bid for governor and calling it a great Way to begin the new  "1 wok up this morning and had some blackened peas for Luck then came downtown to file. There s a certain significance to beginning the new year this Way Richards said. My resolutions Are to slay Cool and win the elec Tion she said. Richards was keynote speaker at the 1988 demo cratic National convention in Atlanta when she at tacked Republican policies saying that dog won t  her declaration that then vice president George Bush was bom with a Silver foot in his Mouth prompted Bush to Send her a Silver foot pin which she wore when the president addressed the Texas legis lature Early in 1989. Her quips and one liners set the tone for the Nomi nation of Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis As the democratic presidential nominee. She currently has her autobiography on the Market nationally. She announced last june her plans to run for Gover nor because i believe that it is time and because of All the things i be stood for All of my  she faces a spirited Battle with attorney general Jim Mattox for the democratic nomination and for Mer gov. Mark White also is in the race. On the Republican Side where incumbent gov. Bill Clements is not running candidates include Railroad commission chairman Kent Hance who made unsuccessful runs for the . Senate in 1986 and governor in 1988 oilman Clayton Williams Houston business Man Jack Rains Dallas lawyer Tom Luce and fort Worth minister . Otwell. Stateside . Wine sales fall for third straight year san Rafael Calif. Up . Wine sales fell 8 percent in 1989, the third straight year of decline according to a Trade report. In a report in the january Issue of wines & vines Magazine wine researchers Jon Fredrickson and Lou Goth org estimate wine sales will drop another 5 per cent next year. The drop can be attributed to growing Public con Cerns about drinking. Sales of Champagne and spar Kling wines which arc often drunk at parties and restaurants away from Home have been Hurt by the National crackdown on Drunken driving Frederickson said. College wants Gorbachev for Iron curtain sequel Fulton to. A Westminster College where Winston s. Churchill s Iron curtain speech signalled the Start of the cold War in 1946, Hopes soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev will deliver an epilogue. We re hoping that a world figure who has played such a major role in East West politics would Sec the importance of returning to the place where the cold War was first defined College president Harvey Saun dvrs said. Fulton a Community of 11,000. Has asked sen. Christopher Bond r-mo., to help try to get Gorbachev to speak at Westminster in june when he visits the United states for a Summit meeting with president Bush. In his March 1946 lecture Churchill said from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an Iron curtain has descended across the european Conti.  the phrase Drew Little immediate attention from the Media but soon it became part of the cold War Glos sary. Automobile thief drives off with sleeping child in car Elgin Iii. A a car thief drove away with More than he had bargained for a 4-year-old girl asleep in the front seat. The car was found abandoned about an hour after the incident and the child was still asleep authorities said. A woman had driven to an Eagle food store in this City 40 Miles West of Chicago and left her daughter asleep and the car s engine running said sol. Norm Landwehr. The woman who was not identified by police re turned to find that her car and child were missing Landwehr said. Police in the neighbouring town of Streamwood received an Anonymous Call about a half hour later say ing the car and the child could be found in the parking lot of a Lown House development there. The child was reunited with her Mother police said. Smoke in Jet s cockpit forces emergency Landing Linthicum my. A an american airlines dc-10 with 257 people aboard made an emergency Landing at Baltimore Washington International air port Early tuesday after the Pilot reported smoke in the cockpit an airline spokeswoman said. No serious injuries were reported. Flight 240, with 247 passengers and 10 Crew Mem Bers was bound from Dallas fort Worth International Airport to Laguardia Airport in new York City air line spokeswoman Susan r. Kelly said. She said the plane landed at the Baltimore Airport at 12 02 a.m., and passengers Slid Down emergency chutes to the runway. We had preliminary reports that eight to 10 people suffered minor injuries Kelly said. The cause of the smoke was still being investigated Kelly said. But she said no flames were seen