European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes monday april 9,1990farm Aid performers on stage again Indianapolis apr financially strapped farm Aid returned saturday with its first concert in vhf years. Performers sounded a message of concern not Only for the family Farmer but also for the land they till. The concert was crammed with More than 60 acts and lasted nearly 14 hours finishing after Midnight. It concluded with an All Star chorus singing a this land is your land a led by Arlo Guthrie son of the songs composer Woody Guthrie. Farm Aid president Willie Nelson topped the list of performers who said they were forging a coalition with family Farmers environmentalists and Consumers to work toward reducing the amount of chemicals used in food production. A somewhere Between a lot of chemicals and no chemicals there a a Happy medium a Nelson said at a news conference before performing the first song of the 12-hour show in the Hoosier dome. A was experts the Farmers will have to Tell you How much do they need and How much Are they forced to use a Nelson said. A i think that a the difference. If they can get enough Money for a Bushel of com they done to have to Drain that acre for every ounce that a in  inside the Arena Early arrivals among the sellout crowd of 45,000 settled in with blankets and pillows for the Marathon event. Many of the More popular performers including Neil Young Bonnie Raitt and Don Henley did no to perform until the final two hours. Elton John made an unexpected appearance late in the program and performed three songs. The British Rock Singer pianist had been in Indianapolis to visit teen age aids victim Ryan White a close Friend. White died sunday. A this ones for Ryan a John said before beginning a Candle in the wind a a song he wrote about the tragic life of actress Marilyn Monroe. The crowd gave him the biggest ovation of the show. Johns set provided a somber note during a Day of activism on behalf of family Farmers and the environment. The Rev. Jesse Jackson said the family farm crisis is expanding. A since 1980, we be lost about 75,000 farms largely because Farmers  earn enough from their crops to pay their Bills a he said. Jackson criticized reports by Secretary of agriculture Clayton Yeutter saying that farm income is at record Levels a Point some farm Aid critics have raised As evidence this concert was unnecessary. A what Yeutter does no to say is that when the numbers Are adjusted for inflation farm income in the last decade was at its lowest since 1910,�?� he said. Singer Henry Lee summer from Brazil ind., used the stage to speak out against out of state trash being dumped in Indiana. A a in be got a message to All those big businesses that want to dump All their trash and toxic waste Here we done to deserve it a summer said drawing a big cheer. Concertgoers said they were there not Only to enjoy the music but also to support the family Farmer the cause that inspired farm aids formation five years singers from left Kris Kristofferson Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne Belt out a tune at the farm Aid concert. Ago. The organization through its first three shows in 1985-87, raised $12 million and has distributed some $9 million to churches and service agencies hot lines and farm organizations. Carolyn Mugar executive director of farm Aid said late in the evening that the show had generated Well Over $1 million in revenues and donations. She and Nelson have left open the possibility of More concerts As the need for Money arises. Mugar said farm Aid in was arranged because the organization has run out of Money. It was also staged two weeks before Earth Days 20th anniversai7 to stress that farm and environmental causes Are intertwined. A when we restore the Honor and Sanctity of the family Farmer in conjunction with Earth Day a which is not just lip service and not just one event a we restore the Sanctity and Honor of Mother Earth herself a Raitt said. Environmental activists including Chris Desser sex Harvard a class of �?T40 rates Churchill As most admired Man Cambridge mass. Up a Winston Churchill is the statesman most admired by Harvard colleges class of 1940, a group that included future president John f. Kennedy according to a Survey taken for the 50th anniversary of the members graduation. The third of a series of polls that has tracked class members from their Early 20s to their Early 70s found that they believe Western culture is stagnating or in a decline and that current . Leadership is muddled. Formal results will be mailed this week to the 508 alumni who completed the questionnaire. The Survey was conducted by Donald Thurber a retired Public relations and fund raising professional from Grosse Pointe Mich. It followed up similar surveys in 1940 and 1965. President Kennedy a classmates rated Churchill ahead of Harvard alumnus Franklin d. Roosevelt among the most admired personalities of the last 50 years. Gen. George c. Marshall placed third Mohandas Gandhi finished fifth with Kennedy a Distant 11th. Other highly admired persons included Albert Einstein Sigmund Freud Jonas Salk Albert Schweitzer Mother Teresa Helen Keller Frank Lloyd Wright Pablo Picasso Walt Disney Robert Frost and . Eliot. The majority of the class entered private commercial or professional enterprises with Medicine Educa Tion Law and manufacturing Topping the list. Only 45 percent have completely retired. The class was equally split among democrats republicans and independents with about two thirds reporting a net Worth in excess of $500,000 and 28 members Topping the $5 million Mark. Thurber said a for most of us life is still fun our wits Are still nimble our humor facile our insights  one third of the class described Western culture As a marking time a while 30 percent Felt it was advancing and an equal number complained of a decline the Survey found. Thurber said it marked the first time that a marking time won plurality support. The most pressing Issue to those responding was peace and the avoidance of nuclear War the Survey found followed by education economic Prosperity ethics and integrity in government business and sports. Thurber said 59 percent of the respondents answered a none of the above in response to a multiple Choice question describing National leadership As among other things a thoughtful and  a at a time when the nation groans with important issues. The leadership of the Republic is seen unequal to the task a Thurber said. Ecu Tive director of Earth Day 1990, and John of Connor executive director of the National toxics Campaign also spoke out against a brute chemical  of Connor said a third of the nations farm crop is still lost to insects and other pests just As it was before world War ii despite a tenfold increase in chemical use. The lineup at the Hoosier dome also included Dwight Yoakum . Oslin Lou Reed guns a no roses Richard Marx Jackson Browne John Denver and the soviet Rock band Gorky Park. Huge Black and White cutouts of farm workers with cows and farm implements were the stage backdrop. Hanging on the Leit and right sides of the stage were huge flags with the farm Aid logo of a tractor with an american Flat farm aids first concert in september 1985 was in Champaign 111. Subsequent concerts were held in 1986 at Austin Texas and in 1987 at Lincoln neb. Stateside police chief to mete out punishment a to himself new York apr the chief of the City housing department police admits he committed a .38-caliber boo boo in his office and now As judge jury and executioner will punish himself. Chief Louis Raiford or. Said he inadvertently fired one of his two handguns As he sat a his desk. The Bullet went through a Wall to the adjoining office where it lodged in the coat o assistant chief Peter Cummings who luckily was in shirtsleeves at the time. Raiford a offence is formally called failure to safeguard his weapon which Calls for disc plenary action a by the chief. A a in a fully qualified to make the decision Raiford said. He said he was considering options ranging from forfeiting five Days pay Neay a at his $ 100,000-a-year salary to scolding Nim self. Raiford said the accidental firing occurred after he cleaned his two guns m Prepa for target practice