European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 07, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday january 7,1990 the stars and stripes Page King Day fess launched despite bombings b the Las Angeles times Atlanta civil rights activists defied the Cli mate or anger and tear from apparently racially tinged bomb murders in the South to launch the annual Cele bration of Martin Luther King or s birthday Friday. The Celebration s events Are scheduled to begin Sun Day and run through Jan. I5. Which would have been the 61st birthday of King. The civil rights Leader was Memphis in 1968. Speeches a Jan. 15 March assorted workshops and other activities attended by Well known personalities arc planned As. On the opposite end of the spec Trum the Kun flux klan planned a March on the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta saturday. Despite the klan March and the series of bombings. Corp la Scott King the slain civil rights Leader s widow saw opportunities for Progress. We Are optimistic about Mankind s possibilities As we begin the last decade of the Century and of this millennia King said at a news conference in Atlanta Friday. She cited similarities Between the civil rights move Mcnol Hal swept the nation to change during the 1960s and the current Freedom explosion in such Eastern bloc countries As East Germany Hungary. Poland and Czechoslovakia. In the last year we have seen hundreds of thousands of people marching through the str Els of Berlin ant Beijing. Budapest and Pretoria Moscow. Warsaw and Prague As Well As Namibia singing we shall overcome in a nose of languages said King. The same song of Freedom we Sang in the streets of Montgomery Birmingham Selma and i talc Rock is today being Sung in cities around the now is the time to organize a global non violent based on her slain husband s teachings to put an end to the scourges of poverty and hunger racism and bigotry War and asked about the mail bombs that killed an Alabam Federal judge and a Savannah ga., attorney last month. King acknowledged that extra precautions will surround this year s birthday Cal Caralion because of pension and Bui she defended the klan s first amendment right to March. Many civil rights activists have said that the klan March scheduled for saturday and another one planned for Jan. 20 arc an Effort to capitalize on the Twu fatal bombings As Well As two attempted bombings in which devices were defused without injuries at an Atlanta court building and Al the a act office in Jacksonville Fla. The bomb victims were judge Robert Vance of the11th . Circuit court of appeals who had been on a panel that ordered desegregation measures in Dycka Lacounty and Robert Robinson a Awyer who also had participated in a school desegregation suit representing the a act in Savannah. Federal investigators say they believe the murders were committed by a racist individual or group. Threatening letters have been mailed to numerous people around the South bolstering that theory. As the crimes remained unsolved and participants from around the world began gathering in Atlanta to Cele brate King s birthday concern had Arisen that the renewed attention to hate groups would overshadow the Celebration. Patient who set Jarvik-7 record Dies St. Louis a a woman who set a record for living the longest on an artificial heart before receiving a heart trans Plant has died of a heart attack following an infection. Carolyn Stadler. 57. Of St. Charles died Friday at St. Louis University hos Pital where she had received two trans plants officials said. Stadler lived 440days on a Jarvik-7 artificial heart before receiving a heart transplant last fall. Hospital officials said Stadler was kept alive by the Jarvik-7 after her body rejected a first donor heart Given her june 30. 1988. She had been diagnosed As having idiopathic cardiomyopathy. A degenerative heart condition. Stadler. A Mother of four spent the last i years at the hos Pital where she showed an inner Graceland Faith that strengthened her family said her husband. Roger. Or. Leslie Miller of the Hospital s cardiology staff said Stadler s Case provided much needed information about re action to transplants. Women arc More Likely to reject heart transplants. The Jarvik-7 artificial heart was devel oped by Robert Jarvik at the University of Utah school of Medicine in Salt Lake City. It is capable of replacing the function of both of the heart s pumping Chambers the right and the left ventricles and is intended to keep a patient alive while awaiting a donor heart. William Devries first implanted the Jarvik-7 in 1982 in Barney Clark who survived for 112 Days. I aka sri a 01 ill tar Pitr worker Al the new York museum of natural history put the finishing touches on the Skeleton of a Saber tar pits treasure toothed Tiger excavated from the i a urea tar pits in California. The Skele ton is part of what is being billed As the first travelling exhibit Sils from the tar pits. Museum on Jan. 26. Ion of ice age Fos it will open at the Bush complains about split screen to pictures Washington not president Bush complained on Friday that some television news organizations had made him appear insensitive to the deaths of . Soldiers killed in Panama. Juxtaposing pictures showed Bush on the to screen in a jocular mood during a news conference last month and the arrival of the bodies of . Soldiers killed in Panama. Bush asked the networks for Advance warning the next time they plan to use split screen technique. I would respectfully request that if the urgency of the moment is such that that technique is going to be used if i could be told about Bush said at his news conference Friday and Well Stop the network news executives said Friday that the use of the technique had generated heated debate at the net works along with letters from viewers Many of whom said they Felt the coverage had been intended to put Bush in a negative Light. But they stopped Short of saying they would notify the president in Advance if such a situation were to arise again. The president s news conference on dec. 21 look place within moments of the arrival of the bodies of four . Soldiers Al Dover fab. Del. Bush said that because Abc lbs and can showed what he characterized As my frivolous comments at the Lime Side by Side with the return of american dead viewers had written him saying they Felt that their president in a solemn moment Tike that did l give a and i do. I do the president said lie was not aware at the Lime thai the events in Washington and Dover were being shown Side by Side. While the news conference had been scheduled be fore the Panama invasion on dec. 20. The executives said the time was not set until hours before it took place leaving the networks with few options for cover ing both Bush and the arrival ceremony. Lbs news had planned live coverage of the arrival ceremony Long before the while House announced the press appearance in the White House briefing the president of lbs news. David Burke said through spokesman Friday. De Turner. The executive vice president for news gathering at can said we began with full screen of the president in the White House briefing room. Shortly thereafter the live pictures came up from Dover the caskets being moved from the belly of the air plane to a hangar. We then created the two Box look with the president talking and the silent picture of the caskets moving with an Honor guard. Thai Well on Prelly much for the Dura Tion. "1 supported the i Chni us because oddly Vou had a Confluence of events Turner continued the presi Dent discussing the dead and the injured in Panama with the eerie coincidence of being Able to cover the return when he saw the split Ima pc. Roone Arledge. Abc new s president ordered the return to a full picture of the president Abc news Anchor Peter Jennings explained lha Bush did not know the technique was being used. When the new s conference ended. Jennings apologized to viewers for the use of the technique. A spokesman. Scott Richardson said Friday that Arledge agreed Wilh the president s assessment. Lloyd Siegel. Thi executive producer of news cover age at Abc news said his division determined not to use a split screen specifically because of fears Hal the coverage might Casl the president in a naga live Light
