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"Vf, A Poughkeepale Journal Sunday. September 0. 1090 From Page One Ellis Island rebirth stirs local hearts Continued from Pag 1A DUtt laid he and his mother arrived at Ellis Island on Yom Klppur, the Jewish Day of Atonement "My mother was concerned where to Ught the candles for the holiday," he remembered. The woman Joined others who had found a suitable i room, but the young Blatt was left cut In a hallway. "I cried half the night because I Fdldnt know where she was," he said The Immigrants slept In bunk beds 1 if they stayed the night, Blatt re 1 called The next day, as family and sponsors waited to take the imml grants to new homes.

Butt's father to greet his family. But after 1 six years apart, Blatt's mother did JJ not recognize him. The little boy saw i a man waving toward them and tugged his mother's skirt I "I said, 'Ma, over there, over there!" The late Pasquale Stortini came to America in 1908 from the village of Clvltanova, on the northern Adriatic coast of Italy Before his death, he became a prosperous Dutchess County farmer quite a difference from his meagher beginnings as a 16 year old arriving alone in a new land. "He came over with a dream for personal more so than I think for the money," said Pasquale 1 Stortlni's son, Ralph Stortini, 65, of Pleasant Valley "The food was not the best and the sleeping accomodations were horrendous," said the younger Stortini "It was an arduous trip but they felt it was worth it" "He came over with a dream farpersonal freedomfmore so than I think for the money." Pleasant Valley's Ralph Stortini, concerning Ellis Island Immigrant Pasquale Stortini. Ralph Stortini said his father told him many immigrant hopefuls were turned away at Ellis Island after medical examinations, and had to travel back to their homelands.

Pasquale Stortini often talked of a great hall, in which the Immigrants were processed "My father was so determined and enthusiastic about this country," Ralph Stortini said. The retired aid minimum executive has been raising money locally for the 1J45 million Ellis Island restoration. His family has purchased a plaque on the island so called "Wall of Honor" for Pasquale Stortini as well as Nannie Merritt Ross, the mother of Ralph Stortlni's mother In law Immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and their descendants all appeared to show the strength and determination that brought them to America in the first place Thomas Chlavelli, owner of Chick's Tavern in Pleasant Valley, said his late father worked for SO years after coming to this country His father, Thomas Chlavelli Sr, helped raise five children making a living as a tailor He worked up until he was 72 years old, the younger IbbbbbhbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbHPm! aK'frnHnfL bbbbbbbbbbbbbW7bbHbHI BBBBBBBBHIH 'i VR! bbbbkt2bbbHbbw bbbbbbbbbw HM ii fiidS iiraiIMBBBBBBBBBBBBi Wvf'fcjiuvDrVf hHtmibbbbbbbbbh mftjt v.HKjJiot?';,.. bWIvbbbbbbbM UIHHl Soviets bring along a guilty conscience In a 1000 photograph. Joseph Schlachter.

who came through Ellis Island in 1905. Is shown on his wedding day with his wife, Minnie Schlachter eventually settled in Poughkeepsie Chlavelli said "He had only had about three grades in school and he came over here with a few dollars in bis pocket just enought to come over here," Chlavelli said Luigl DeDominicus echoed what Cblavelli's father must nave felt first stepping into the balls of Ellis Island He said he often travels to New York City today to view the site with his family, and to remember how he felt one day more than 40 years ago "I said if I don't make it in this country I won't make it anywhere in the world," be recalled. Continued from Page 1A dais already finding it awkward to treat their long time ally, Iraq as an adversary are unhappy with the prospect of a long term U.S. presence in the gulf, and have said so. Hence the Soviet strategy In the crisis so fan supporting the United States while warning against the unilateral use of force, patting heavy diplomatic pressure on tt former ally to pull out of Kuwait and energetically promoting collective UN.

action. UA Sovlet cooperation in the gulf crisis, culminating la Sunday's meeting between Gorbachev and President Bosh, is itself an extraordinary achievement, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said Friday. "If this crisis had occurred before the end of the Cold War. we would have been readying our nfissiles," he said in Tokyo, "it would have been World War III" Indeed, not so long ago, official Soviet views of US. military goals in the Persian Gulf were very different The Iraqi president visited Moscow for talks with Gorbachev nine months after the Soviet leader had come to power, and before he had begun his transformation of Soviet foreign policy At that time, at the end of 1985, then Foreign Minister Andrei A Gro myko told Hussein that "we and you do not differ in evaluating the aggressive plans of the United States and Israel with respect to this region." Further, he said, "the imperialist powers" were exploiting the Iran Iraq war to boost their military pres ence, which "threatened the independence and sovereignty of the golf states." If the official Soviet stance has been transformed, an equally striking development is the unprecedented weight of domestic public opinion on Soviet gulf policy.

Foreign policy was ope of the last Areas opened to free debate under Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, but the So viet media have been extremely noe tile toward Hussein in discussing the current crisis. In fact the "wave of indignation' in the Soviet media following Iraq's Aug. 2 Invasion of Kuwait results from "a guilt complex, a bad con science." remarked' ixvesua corre spondent Melor Stuns. "Aggression against Kuwait was carried oat mainly using our weapons, which we had so generously sup plied to our most loyal friend, SadJ dam Hussein, over many Sturua wrote. But it is not Just the question ol arms sold to Iraq.

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