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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes faces n places tuesday. February 9,1993 Freedom forum to Honor sex supreme court justices from wire reports former supreme court Justice Wil Liam j. Brennanjr. And his late col league Thurgood Marshall arc being honoured for showing the Power of an unyielding free  the two arc the recipients of the free Dom forum s 1993 free spirit awards in Washington . Justices Brennan and Marshall s contributions to. The history of our country testify to the Power of an unyielding free spirit said for Cedron forum chairman Allen ii. Neuharth on sunday. The awards and $100,000 for each recipient will be presented thursday. Mar shall s son will accept for his father. Marshall the first Black Man to sit on the court retired in 1991 after 24 Yea Sand died last month. Brennan retired in july 1990 after 34 years. The Freedom forum is an International nonpartisan organization based in Arlington a. Chess grudge match Don t expect much in the Way of pleasantries when British chess grandmaster Nigel Short and world Champion Garri Kasparov face off in september. He s a very Nasty Guy and a very unpleasant Man Short said of his oppo nent. He s probably one of the most unpleasant people in the chess world the sooner he gets beaten the  Short 27, made his remarks sunday on returning from Spain where he Defeated dutch grandmaster Jan Timman to setup the showdown with Kasparov. Kasparov has contemptuously dismissed Short s chances. The two have played 15 times since 1980, and Short has won Only once with 10 losses and four draws. Bidding opened monday for cities that want to Host the championship. Short is the first player from a country other than the former soviet Union to play for the title since american Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky in 1972. No be a Book known for being a tight lipped attorney general who kept his thoughts close to the Vest Dick Thornburgh says hell refrain from telling All when he writes a account of his Quarter Century in Public  Don t have any pretensions As a major writer but i am looking Forward tit said Thornburgh who recently Pur chased a personal computer for the task. Ill just sit Back reflect and Start punch ing  had a Stormy three year tenure at the Justice depart Meru Darin the Reagan and Bush administrations. He left to run for the Senate in 1991 but  Book also could include his account of the 1979 nuclear Accident a three mile Island which occurred shortly after he became governor of Pennsyl  said he will get to work after finishing a stint this month Asun do Secretary general of the United nations. British Back of the latest opinion poll on Britain s royals indicates Princess Diana is still the most popular and her estranged Hus band Prince Charles is plummeting in the Public s  Gallup poll published monday in the daily Telegraph also found 65 per cent of britons favored a More approach Able democratic monarchy like that of the  percent said Britain s Roy als should stay As they Are and 9 percent said the monarchy should be replaced by a no executive president. In the past three months the Prince and Princess of Wales have separated both have been accused of leaking stories to the press and newspapers have printed transcripts of a sexually intimate Tele phone conversation purportedly Between Charles and a married woman. The poll based on interviews with 989 people Between Jan. 28 and feb. 2, found Charles popularity had fallen drastically in the past 18 months. In a similar poll conducted in june1991, 15 percent said Charles was their favorite member of the Royal family. Inthe new poll his popularity rating was 4 percent. Star s big night actress Julie Harris right is greeted by Alee Baldwin and Joan Van Ark at the gala Benefit for the american Academy of dramatic arts in new York on sunday night. The Academy presented Harris a five of me Tony and two time emmy Winner with the Sargent award for lifetime achievement in the dramatic arts. Diana had 22 percent of the vote the highest rating in both polls. Asked if the nation still could be proud of the monarchy 64 percent of respondents said yes and 34 percent no. Eighty seven percent thought that Queen Eliza Beth ii did a Good Job but that some of her family let her Down. Times have changed Etta Moton Barnett a pioneering Black movie actress says things have changed since her Early Days in Hollywood when most minority performers were stuck in stereotypical roles. The 91-year-old actress who appear Din Early films including Gold diggers of 1933, was Given the living african Amer ican heritage award on saturday As the Chicago Public Library celebrated Black history month. Opportunity has opened up for my people quite a Little bit from earlier Days she said. Barnett cited As inspiration the poem that Maya a Clou wrote for president Clinton s inauguration on Jan. 20. She spoke of a tree and she spoke of a Rock and she spoke of a River. And i As a musician recognized about four spirituals. Remember the Rock i went to the Rock to hide my face and the Rock cried out no hiding place " she said. She called us not to hide our  Barnett starred on Broadway in porgy and Bess. She later became an arts activist on behalf of such causes As the Chi Cago Lyric opera. 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