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Show C3wtT itEGTH TNiOUOH lOCSTiCS Suggestions Base workers awarded for input S Po8 16, pitas. Jan. 18. 1991 .15 Make A Difference... Start With Yourself! O jQDD?S Co Cfcsl o ow-'- m by Rudi Williams American Forces Information Service More than 130 foreign countries observe Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Nearly 40 of them have issued commemorative stamps honoring the civil rights leader, and many have named churches, schools, buildings, streets and plazas in his honor. ' Mil rLwwm$mkg ' Perhaps the most impressive underMartin taking is the Luther King Jr. Memorial Forest in Galilee, near Nazareth, Israel. Hundreds of trees are added to the forest during his birthday month each year. ever-growin- g Started in 1976 with 39 for each year of King's life trees-o- ne the land in northern Israel now boasts more than 10,000 trees, according to Bernice Sherbow of the Jewish National Fund of America in Silver Spring, Md. A grove of 1,000 trees was planted in the forest last January in honor of the late Leonore Siegelman, a fighter for civil rights in the Washington, children in the United States help raise D.C., area and founder of the King money to keep it growing. Israeli memorial forest, said Sherbow. It was schoolchildren learn about King and Siegelman who convinced businesses his works. and other organizations to contribute The Congressional Black Caucus schooland Jewish congressional members money for the forest. Jewish once-barre- n Hutu , t feSOT: : i ; 1 : 2 - 1 trs 13 i I i "ilrllillll '"'III lt.lillKST I 18 : ,i, p serve as the memorial forest's honorary sponsors. Each year, the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Jewish Naa tional Fund of America Jewtribute to King. Each year, one ish American and one African American are honored for contributions to the civil rights movement. In 1968, Sweden dedicated Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza opposite the University of Uppsala, which dates back to the 1500s, according to co-spons- or Ann-Mari- e Brisbois, an information assistant at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C. :iiiW.vjfrrj: ..'... f I : 7 : c rJi i VENEZUELA : ; : i L,,,,,,,,,,, j2 i1 m ri mi iii 'i'"' prrWrr 'tf,..',. Irr ttti I .ijllte... i' " . I! i fry ?Q : mi9t ii.fc. ? fttoUirb I I , r t ""'"X" H jj Ms I iM i.h.tlQUt.tM.'HAI1 i hi) : Wwwwf 7JflpJ rTrwr D,A r i I 52(1 It , : : ! "In April 1978, a monument was unveiled in the plaza to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death," said Brisbois. "The bronze sculpture, entitled Befrielsen, or 'Liberation,' is the creation of Sweden's Olof Hellstrom. It portrays two gigantic hands pulling apart two equally large prison bars." "An initiative is under way in Mexico City to name a street in Martin Luther King Jr.'s honor," said Gregorio Luke, first secretary of the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. "He is admired and throughout Mexico for his struggle for civil rights in the United States. He was a world figure who represented hope, freedom and equality in all countries." Mexico has also issued a postage stamp in King's honor. The United States issued a stamp in 1979. Other countries that have issued King stamps include Venezuela, Ecuador, India, Chad, Paraguay, Niger, Virgin well-respecte- sa zJK t wiiwiiiiMMMt Births Hospital staff busy with babies :i rx I II"" Retirements 87 Hill workers end careers d Islands, Senegal, Yemen Arab Repub- lic and Samoa. "The stamps we have were issued between 1968 and 1980, so there may be a lot more that we don't have," said Joe Geraci of the Smithsonian Institution's Philatelic Collection Department. "There was a stamp with King and the pope, issued on Sept. 18, 1964. The Republique Du Dahomey issued a stamp with the words: 'VVe Must Meet Hate With Creative Love,' printed in French, English and German." Rome has a Martin Luther King Jr. High School on the Via Gardinetti, said an Italian Embassy spokesman in Washington, D.C. There are also other schools in Italy bearing King's name, the spokesman added. The Paris Mint struck a Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative me- dal in 1981. King received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understand- ing posthumously, said Dayakar Ratakonda, information officer of the Indian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The award is named in honor of India's first prime minister. A follower of Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence, King is held in high esteem in Ma-hatm- a India. "He applied the principles of nonviolent resistance in the struggle for equality and freedom," said Ratakonda. "It was a marvelous thing to see the results of a campaign in America. His birthday is observed in various Gandhi centers throughout India. Several streets in small and big towns throughout India are named in non-viole- nt his honor." Military education Students graduate NCO courses |