European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 b the stars and stripes ceremony goes on for lifetimes from wire reports they survived that jump after All. There were Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid a also known As Paul Newman and Robert Redford a one paying tribute to the other As president Bush looked on sunday at the John f. Kennedy Center for the performing arts in Washington . As Redford told jokes about his Friend Newman sat in a Box with Bush and first lady Barbara Bush along with the five other recipients of the 15th annual Kennedy Center honors for lifetime achievement a actress Joanne Woodward who is married to Newman. A jazz musician Lionel Hampton. A dancer and actress Ginger Rogers. A cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. A choreographer Paul Taylor. Actor Tom Sci Lack who narrated the segment on Rogers told the audience of 2,000 political and artistic luminaries that her celebrated dancing with Fred Astaire was a an encounter of intimacy for a whole generation of moviegoers. Dance of course played a part in the tribute to Rogers As Well. Fayard and Harold Nicholas better known As the Nicholas Brothers who received the award in 1991, danced with Maria Tallchief Cyd Charissy and Jacques do Amboise. Jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock and Singer aretha Franklin provided tributes to Hampton. Franklin recalled that when she was a child Hampton visited her lather s Church in Chicago and once asked her and her sister to dance at one of his concerts. A it was my real debut onstage a she said. The Broadway songwriter and performer Betty com Den offered a tribute to Taylor whose troupe the Paul Taylor dance company performed a tribute to him. A particularly stirring segment was the very last one honouring Rostropovich the director of the National symphony orchestra and a world renowned cellist. Part of a photo montage of his life shows Rostropovich As a baby cradled in a cello Case an indication of his Early inclination toward music. Rostropovich was asked to leave the soviet Union in 1978 and stripped of his citizenship after criticizing the governments treatment of dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The cellist Yoyo a played George crumbs sonata no. 3 in Rostropovich a Honor but said that one musician could not pay adequate tribute to the cellists contributions. Faces a no places tuesday december 8,1992 a a bridged history at simulated explosions recall the world War ii Allied bombing of the Bridge on the River kwai in Kan Chonburi Thailand on Friday during an annual Celebration. The Bridge and railway were built by the japanese using Allied prisoners and asian slave labourers hundreds of whom died because of the rough conditions. The Story popularized in the 1957 movie Quot the Bridge on the River kwai Quot has attracted millions of tourists Over the years. At that time 80 cellists including James d. Wolfen Sohn the chairman of the Kennedy Center and the lbs news Anchor Paula Zahn struck up a life for the Czar by Mikhail Glinka. Cisneros and National Council of la Raza head Raul Yzaguirre a stepped in to revive the event the Washington Post event still in works archbishop gives his Blessing hispanic leaders have been working furiously since wednesday to put together a hispanic inaugural Ball m Washington ., after negotiations collapsed Between the democratic National committee and the hispanic congressional caucus. The caucus chaired by rep. Solomon p. Ortiz had volunteered to coordinate a hispanic gala. But Jack Otero the highest ranking hispanic member of the democratic National committee killed the idea because the caucus was a bipartisan group a and the Ball would be democratic. When Hopes for the Celebration seemed dashed several other hispanic leaders a los Angeles councilwoman Gloria Molina former san Antonio mayor Henry the head of the Church of England which opposes remarrying divorced people sent prayers and Good wishes to Princess Anne on sunday on her impending second marriage. Anne Queen Elizabeth ii a Only daughter will be the first close relative of a British Monarch to divorce and remarry. A statement from the archbishop of Canterbury George Carey said he wished the Princess and Timothy Laurence every happiness. A the has them both together with Peter and Zara in his prayers a said the statement. Peter Phillips 14, and his sister Zara 11, Are Annex a children from her marriage to capt. Mark Phillips. They were divorced in april. Letters to Santa Claus arrive by the thousands at the newspaper each year. The stars and stripes will Forward each and every one to the Jolly old Elf. Each letter writer will have his or her name printed in the newspaper and will receive a reply Horn the North pole. Address letters to Santa Claus european stars and stripes unit 29480 Apo a 09211 in i
