European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 the stars and stripes monday december 3,1990 the Empire state building floodlights go dark for 15 minutes saturday night in Honor of Day without Art museums cities pay to aids victims in arts new York a the new York and san Franr Cisco skylines dimmed saturday and museum visitors gazed silently at shrouded sculptures in a coast to coast Observance for aids victims in the Art world at least 3,000 arts organizations in the United states including new York s metropolitan museum of Art and Washington a smithsonian institution participated in the second annual Day without Art Quot you take it for granted a Art. Its All around and people done to realize it a Michelle Liebowitz said looking up at a sculpture of the goddess Diana that was covered by a Black cloth at the National Academy of design in new York.1, Quot now that you can to see it Here you take note of it a she said. ,. _ a posted notice told visitors to the Academy that Anna Hyatt Huntington s Diana sculpture was obscured Quot As a gesture of mourning for All those who have suffered from and fallen victim to  Day without Art events were coordinated nationwide in Observance of the world health  annual aids awareness Day also known As world aids Day Many galleries closed in Observance of Day without Art while others withdrew works from display. Some held memorial exhibits a few handed out leaflets or displayed lists of artists and others who have died 9f acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. At the san Francisco museum of Art photographs by Robert Mapple Thome who died of aids in 1989, went on display. An exhibit of Mapplethorpe a erotic images launched National debate last year Over restrictions in Federal Art Grants. The decorative floodlighting at the Empire state building and lights on the Chrysler building and other private . Major structures in new York went out for 15 minutes. Marquee lights along Broadways great White Way Darken ened for one minute. Quot to see the Skyline which has always been so important to new yorkers to see it dim is truly symbolic and truly powerful a said Patrick of Connell an organizer of the new York Observance. Quot right now in a filled with happiness but i also Feci sorrow and rage a he said. The san Francisco Skyline also dimmed for 15 minutes saturday night when the Golden Gate. Bridge lights a except for the Roadway lights a were turned off. Lights on City Hall the Coit Tower and the tip of the tra Samerica building also were dimmed. _ display cases at the museum of modern Art held White letters on a Black background spelling  the Cooper Hewitt museum displayed a dozen panels from the aids memorial quilt. At new Yorkus metropolitan museum of Art several great works were removed including a Rembrandt self portrait Renoir a Quot two girls at the piano a a and Matisse a Quot nasturtiums and  some sculptures in the asian Art department were covered. V in Washington the Corcoran gallery of Art darkened three contemporary Art galleries and planned to donate admission fees to aids charities the smithsonian institution s National portrait gallery displayed a list of people in the arts who have died of aids. In los Angeles the j. Paul Getty museum gave visitors fliers listing members of the arts Community who have died of aids the museum planned to give profits from. Saturdays Sale of the Book Quot the indomitable spirit photographers and artists respond to time of aids a to the american foundation for aids research. A a / stateside arizonan a London Bridge in need of minor repairs Lake Hatasu City Ariz. Apr London Bridge May not be falling Down but the 160-year old Structure is due for some touch up work. Lake Hatasu City is accepting bids from contractors to replace Cement that has fallen off the underside of the Bridge at water level. The work would be the first significant repairs on the Bridge since it was transplanted to Arizona two decades ago. Quot its just Normal maintenance a said Bob Leuch assistant City Engineer. Other minor repairs include anchoring steel pins into the Bridge with epoxy and staining the underside of the Oridge a Granite color Leuch said. The estimated Cost of the repairs scheduled for Early next year is $110,000. Robert p. Mcculloch Developer Chain saw magnate and founder of the City had the Bridge shipped Block by Block to Lake Hatasu City from London in 1969. Rebuilding the Bridge took Al most two years. Mcculloch bought the Bridge for nearly $2.5 million and spent an additional $4.5 million to ship and install it. Lethal injection replaces electric chair in Penn. Harrisburg a. Up a Pennsylvania has become the 21st state to abandon the electric chair in favor of execution by injection. Goy. Robert p. Casey signed a Bill retiring the chair which has not been used since 1962. The state Senate approved lethal injection last april and House members passed the measure by a 170-21 margin two weeks ago. The Law takes effect immediately. Supporters of the Bill say lethal injection is a quicker less painful Way to die than by the elec Trie chair. Officials said injection causes death within three minutes. But the american civil liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Catholic con Ference opposed the Bill saying the Only Way to make capital punishment More humane is to abolish it. A. Some Legal experts said the change could Lead to More appeals for the 118 inmates on death Row in the state. Theft victim s Handcuffs scare away passers by Houston up a gun wielding bandits not Only robbed Albert Moore they made it difficult for him to get help afterwards the Handcuffs they put on him scared people off Moore a cigarette Salesman wandered Houston streets for about an hour  Vince motorists and passers by to come to his Aid he was robbed and left handcuffed by thieves who were after his cigarette fined Van. Passers by apparently feared that Moore who was wearing suit might have been an escaped prisoner. One woman Moore asked for help simply ran away police said. Police and Harris county deputies received several Telephone reports of the handcuffed Man and flooded police radios with Calls about whether any officers had been overcome by an escaped prisoner. It deputies finally freed Moore of his Handcuffs. Windsor locks Conn a a Relief group sent 80,000 pounds of Medicine and food to Moscow on saturday in the first private Airlift from the muted states to help ease severe shortages in the soviet Union. A single aircraft left Bradley International Airport with the supplies for the Republican children a Hospital and two orphanages in Moscow another plan Load of donated food from Germany arrived in Moscow on Friday and was distributed to orphanages and children a hospitals the shipment saturday was sent by new Canaan based Amer cares a private Relief group founded in 1982 that has delivered More than $360 million in Relief Aid and medicines around the world. Norman a spokesman for the said saturdays shipment was Worth about $1.5 million. He said it would arrive in Moscow on sunday morning. Beginning shortly after the 1988 earthquake in Armenia Amer cares has sent Aid to the soviet Union at least 15 times by sea during the past three years but those shipments usually take about six weeks to arrive. A said the group decided on saturday s Airlift because of the urgency of the food shortages in the soviet Union. Quot their shelves Are extra Bareja doctors from the Mayo Nesotas and memorial Sloam Rettena cancer Center in new York  with Amer cares workers will it amp Tju the supplies and meet with soviet me Fig Ria lists specialists to discuss what other Are needed. A second Airlift parrying r pounds of supplies is scheduled to for the soviet onion on dec. 26