European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 a a the stars and stripes saturday May 19,1990 actress Jill Ireland Dies at 54 after 5-year Battle with cancer Malibu Calif. Apr Jill Ireland the British actress whose courageous five year Battle against breast cancer brought Hope and inspiration to the ailing and the healthy died Friday from the disease. She was 54. Ireland the wife of her frequent action movie costar Charles Bronson died at her Home at 11 30 . Her husband Mother Dorothy brother John sons Paul and Valentine Mccallum and daughter Zulieka Bronson were with her said publicist Lon Jonas. The actress first underwent surgery in 1984 for removal of a cancerous right breast and eight Lymph nodes under her . The cancer after a Brief remission spread to her lungs. Last april Ireland began feeling pain in her shoulder and was diagnosed with cancer that had spread to her lungs hip femur and thyroid. In books and frequent lectures about her Battle with the disease Ireland spoke eloquently about self respect and optimism in the face of devastating illness. She called herself a survivor not a victim. �?o1 done to want to die a she said in Early 1989. A a it a not an of thing. Not right now. We All die one Day but 1 am not in the mood to do it her life was filled with calamity. Her adopted son Jason Mccallum a longtime drug abuser died in november from a lethal drug mixture that had been in news briefs jury finds Brooklyn Man guilty in racial slaying new York apr a jury late thursday found a Brooklyn Man guilty of second degree murder in the racial slaying last year of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins. Hawkins was slain aug. 23, when he and three friends All Black went to the mostly White Bensonhurst neighbourhood of Brooklyn to look at a used car. Joseph Fama 19, accused of being the trigger Man in the slaying was found guilty on 13 of 15 counts including riot unlawful imprisonment menacing discrimination and criminal Possession of a weapon in the third degree. He faces 25 years to life in prison. Jury for woman Tanya Bailey delivered the verdict shortly after 7 . After 10 Days of deliberations in Brooklyn state supreme court. A second jury considering charges against co defendant Keith Mondello was sequestered thursday without reaching a verdict. Mondello was tried in the same courtroom but before a separate jury. U.s., Philippines reach settlement on Aid dispute Manila Philippines up a philippine and . Negotiators meeting this week to decide the future of american military facilities announced a settlement Friday on a nagging compensation dispute that dominated the discussions. The two panels later recessed indefinitely spokesmen said. Chief . Negotiator Richard Armitage departed for Tokyo after the end of the first round of the talks. Philippine negotiators had threatened to scuttle the talks unless the United states settled a $222 million shortfall in the annual $461 million Aid plan. The .-philippine statement said the United states pledged to make its Best efforts to fulfil its obligations and provide food Aid military and medical equipment and unspecified financial credits to make up for the shortfall. Ejected and ingested. He was to have been married a few Days later. Ireland wrote about fighting the disease in her bestseller a life at the time of her death she was completing a life times a profiles of some of her friends. Encouraging women who had undergone mastectomies. Ireland said Quot think of yourself and be Happy make the most of your life and put yourself first a breast does not make me who i appearing frail and gaunt she received a Star on the Hollywood walk of Fame in april. A this is really quite a thrill a she said in a hoarse voice. At the walk of Fame ceremony comedian Joan Rivers praised Ireland As a an incredible woman and a a Loyal Mother a Good Friend and a role Model for everyone a i knew Jill since she was 17, and she was always a remarkable person a film director Michael Winner said. A in her final years which were tragically beset by cancer she transcended her Fame As an actress and showed that the human spirit in adversity can be a wondrous thing. She never thought of herself and her pain. She thought of her family and her friends and of other people who suffered from cancer. It was an extraordinary spirit and in spite of the illness the spirit never a popular Guy an employee of a Tokyo toy maker is surrounded by dolls and Piggy Banks in the likeness of soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Both items nil go on Sale this summer. Minorities Are natural allies not enemies forum speaker says by Deedee Arrington Doke Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a West Germany a Black and hispanic americans must join forces to Wield More political Power Over the nations Agenda a speaker at a leadership conference said Friday but the groups first must Stop blaming each other for their economic hardships said Curtis James special assistant to the chief of staff of logistics Vii corps. James warned that a mutually assured impotence would result if Blacks continued to believe for instance that hispanic immigrants Are siphoning off jobs that otherwise could have gone to Blacks. James spoke for 90 minutes on a the afro american and 1990 politics during the first Day of the european networking councils two Day conference at the Ramstein officers open mess. The conferences theme is a african americans in the 21st Century leadership workshops Are you ready a fridays session Drew about 250 participant Lithuania from Page 1 on saturday will discuss Compromise measures to formally offer the Kremlin. A this does not mean we Are returning to the situation of March 10,�?� she told reporters underlining the lithuanian determination not to Back away from the declaration of Independence. Longinas Vasiliauskas press attache of the lithuanian Mission in Moscow said Prunskiene called the meeting a an introduction to coming Prunskiene declined to speculate on the exact terms that the lithuanian parliament would offer Moscow but she said that if the Kremlin found them acceptable the two sides could name negotiating teams to work out a hundreds of Concrete earlier thursday Prunskiene said Lithuania was willing to make another major Concession agreeing to remain part of the soviet Security system. From West Germany England and the Netherlands. A coalition of Blacks and hispanics would be an a Ideal a Alliance a James said. Their common interests include in i proving education fighting drug addiction and disease and i bringing reforms to criminal Justice and welfare. Despite their Long standing loyalty to the democratic party Blacks would gain a huge political leverage from a multiparty system. Such a system would allow a unified Black front to join with other parties As needed to support issues. The Republican party a traditional opposition to i a most items at the head of the Black agendas leaves Blacks with a nowhere to go but Home to the democrats a James said. But democrats often pay Only lip service to blacks1 concerns James said. Blacks should form a a party within the democrats he suggested. Such a party would enforce a Block vote strategy establish a network of Black Democrat clubs and a abstain or even vote Republican when Black interests Are ignored.merge from Page 1 nato membership for the new Germany. Flanked by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and East German prime minister Lothar de Maiziere the finance ministers of the two merging nations signed the treaty inside the Federal governments opulent palais Schaumburg. A this is a historic hour in the life of the German nation a Kohl said during the ceremony. A we have come Here together to sign a treaty after 45 years of painful division a treaty with which we Ari completing the first significant step toward the restoration of Germany a state Unity. A what we Are living through Here is the birth of a free and United Germany a Kohl said. De Maiziere said that not All a flowery dreams of East germans will be fulfilled with the treaty. A but no one will be worse off than a i i i German motorists asked to walk smell the roses by the stars and stripes West Germany a Auto driven society is being asked to pull Over sunday shut off its engine and get a breath of fresh air. The idea behind the Campaign is to show that mobility is possible without a car say West German environmental groups that arc organizing the car free Day. The countrywide Campaign is receiving particularly Strong support in Bavaria. At a news conference this week Munich a lord mayor Josef Deimer said that although the automobile has brought More personal Freedom its overuse is causing immense damage to the environment. A there should be Wiser use of cars in combination with Public transportation a Deimer said. Throughout Bavaria More than 100 activities have been planned for the car free sunday. Activities include special bicycle train and bus Tours. In Aschaffenbur City buses will take passengers free of charge for a Days out ing to the Teg Emsee. In Schweinfurt 3 new bus route will be celebrated will horse and buggy rides along its course the groups also Are calling for an increase of train routes and a discontinue in the my
