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6A MONDAY, MAY 26, 1986 THE SUN HANDS ACROSS AMERICA Reagans link hands as chain reaches White House Thousands in state join in gesture to help poor 4 jrs ii tUt? ft I 3 cap. In crowded Lafayette Park, separated from the White House grounds by Pennsylvania Avenue and a line of police cars and motorcycles, group of protesters held up signs saying, "Hungry today, forgotten tomorrow," and chanted, "We're fired up, can't take it no more." The group included members of the Community for Creative Non-violence, advocates for the homeless. Somewhat stiff at first, the scene in front of the White House loosened up after several verses of the USA-for-Africa theme song, "We are the World," which was broadcast from speakers near the press stand. The president and Mrs. Reagan, reading the words from printed sheets of paper, joined in singing, as did ordinarily gruff White House Chief of Staff Donald T.

Regan. When the ceremony ended with the singing of "America, the Beautiful," the president looked at his watch and said, "It's over," and bent down to talk with the children standing near him. Then, followed by Mrs. Reagan, dressed in a white blouse and red skirt, he shook hands with others on the platform before turning and shouting his thanks to those on the driveway. White House spokesman Larry M.

Speakes said the $10-a-person donation asked by the event's organizers was being given on behalf of those taking part at the White House by an anonymous donor. He said the president would make a contribution on behalf of the Reagan family and others taking part would be free to make donations of their own if they chose. By Mark Matthews Washington Bureau of The Sun WASHINGTON Flanked by youngsters, and Mrs. Reagan linked hands with a swaying, singing line of government officials, family and guests as the "Hands Across America" Chain looped through the White House grounds yesterday. The president, in a light blue, knit shirt and blue slacks, walked out the north entrance to Join about 30 others on a raised platform facing bleachers erected for TV cameras and the press.

11 Framed by the portico's classical columns, the group showed a cross section of America: young and old, black, white and the handicapped. It included Charles Waterhouse, 13, the son of a gunnery sergeant in the president's helicopter fleet, who clasped the president's left hand; little Erica McKnight. her dark braids tipped with white bands, next to the president's daughter Maureen; and Sarah McClendon, the press corps veteran and news conference gadfly, a flag at-, tached to her dress. Many of the children wore the event's signature T-shirts and sun visors and clutched small American flags and red and blue balloons. White House Press Secretary James S.

Brady, confined to a wheelchair since he was wounded in the assassination attempt on the president, arrived on the platform flashing his familiar thumbs-up sign and later Joined in singing "America, the Beautiful." Alongside the platform, some 200 aides, Secret Service agents, news media representatives and ASSOCIATED PRfcSS From left are Mrs. Reagan, Amanda Reid, Mr. Reagan and Charles Waterhouse. family members filled in the chain linking hands with thousands more stretched toward the Capitol. Some servicemen in uniform appeared in the chain, along with a White House cook in chefs ple to fill the line across Frederick County.

"That would take about one in four Frederick County residents." she said. In the event, there was a seven-mile gap Just east of Francis Scott Key Mall in Frederick, because Route 355 was considered too windy and dangerous. In Hagerstown, some blocks were completely empty of people. Elsewhere in Western Maryland, last-minute efforts paid off. At 3 p.m., there was a quarter-mile gap in Greenbrier State Park on the Frederick County-Washington County border.

Line marshals, with the help of the ham operators, spread the word, and participants ran toward each other, managing to close the line. "It made me feel happy to help all the homeless people here," said Cheryl Moore, 10, who was standing with friends on Pennsylvania Avenue in Hagerstown. "And don't forget the starving people, too," said her friend, 9-year-old Lisa Blair. Her mother, Barbara Blair, said, "It was a neat feeling to know you are linking hands with people all across the United States." Lillian Emerick of Smithsburg, who stood in line on U.S. 40 about 25 miles west of Frederick, nonetheless said she had mixed feelings about the message the event was sending to the rest of the world.

"In America, we are the richest nation on earth, and then they go and publish this to the world that there are people starving here," she said. That's ridiculous. We've got to hold our image up to the world." She and a friend, Kathleen Hart of Hagerstown, sat on U.S. 40 near Cool Hollow Road west of Frederick, chatting, with cooler and cookies, after the event. "We really didn't get a complete line, because there was a gap," Ms.

Hart said, as she pointed to a small bridge at the bottom of hollow where it was too narrow to station people safely. Mike Schaech, an instructor at East Coast Divers, coordinated the effort to maintain a human link across the Susquehanna River in Maryland, with divers holding hands below the surface to keep the central channel open. "We had everything coordinated by radio. All the divers almost simultaneously went under the water at 2:55 p.m. And Just about everybody came up at 3:15," he said.

"Just at the end, when I broke the surface, I was hearing the very end of the last song." MARYLAND, from 1 A humans. And it included 100 divers and boaters in 350 boats who linked hands above and below water to carry the chain across the Susquehanna River. "I held hands with the Republicans. It was bipartisan," said U.S. Representative Barbara Mikulski, who stood in Baltimore with her fellow candidates for the U.S.

Senate seat occupied by retiring Sen. Charles McC. Mathias. "We had more of us there than we've ever had at a candidates' forum." "We were 90 percent complete in Maryland, which is great," said Margaret Rubino, the state director of Hands Across America, at a late-afternoon press conference in the air-conditioned penthouse of the Brcokshire Hotel. "It was wonderful.

We held hands, and it was lots of fun." Many of the participants said gaps in the line made little difference to the significance of the event. Asked if he thought the line would be unbroken across the city, Howard Wolf, a sales manager from Ran-dallstown, replied, "Do you think it matters if it doesn't? The spirit of the thing is the important part." Extraordinary measures filled the gaps at some points in the state's line. At Pulaski Highway and the Harbor Tunnel Throughway, a police officer asked drivers to hop out of their cars and link hands, said Richard Lovegrove, who coordinated the efforts of 160 Maryland amateur radio operators helping with the event. It was a mob scene in front of Memorial Stadium, and the line was thick with participants, but a few blocks away, on 33rd Street between Hillen and Harford roads, only a few scattered people were standing on the sidewalk at 2:55 p.m. The 33rd Street gap, however, was gradually closed by last-minute arrivals and residents of nearby houses who decided to Join up with the line.

The last link in the chain between Hillen and Harford roads was finally closed with the arrival of Darlene Johnson, a Johns Hopkins Hospital computer operator, who returned from church, walked out of the door of her 33rd Street home and filled the last 4-foot break in the line on 33rd Street. In rural parts of the state, the challenge was greater. Vanessa McCambridge, the coordinator for Frederick and Washington counties, estimated it would take 33,000 peo 4.9 million form chain that vows to aid hungry There were no reports of injuries in the line. the California desert, however, gaps as long as five miles were seen. At the California-Arizona border.

Sen. Alan Cranston. held hands with actress Bo Derek. The line snaked through the Cincinnati baseball stadium, where Reds outfielder Dave Parker and five Pirates players held hands with hundreds of Little Leaguers before the Reds-Pirates game in Pittsburgh, and through the Crystal Cathedral In Garden Grove, where TV evangelist Robert Schuller and his entire congregation Joined the linkup. In Chicago, clerks in a Michigan Avenue candy store gave their wares to people standing in line.

There were no reports of injuries or other incidents in the line. The route was marked by balloons, flags and clanging church bells. Originally, everyone in line was asked to contribute $10 or more, with T-shirts and visors offered for larger donations, but in the final days organizers simply urged people HANDS, from 1A line. Forty-three miles west, at the Laguna Pueblo reservation, the line was filled with 1,377 feet of paper dolls sent by New York schoolchildren, local organizers said. Organizers had said that they needed more than 5 million people to form the chain, and that they hoped to raise $50 million or more for the hungry and the homeless.

Despite frantic work up to the final minute, not all the gaps were closed by 3 p.m. EDT, when the line formed. Nevertheless, Mr. Kragen said as the 15-minute event ended, "We exceeded our wildest expectations." The combined estimates of the local organizers indicated that about 4.9 million people participated in the chain. "Everybody must grab hands or this is not going to work," said 6-year-old Amy Sherwood of Brooklyn, N.Y., who was first in line at the New York end.

Her family of seven recently moved into a subsidized to show up and contribute later. In Philadelphia, about 30 members of United American Indians of Delaware Valley were in line in front of the Liberty Bell in full costume, and about as many handicapped children one dressed as Uncle Sam and another as the Statue of Liberty were in wheelchairs in the line at Arcadia, Ind. Motorists who were held up at intersections blocked for the line in Los Angeles jumped out of their cars to hold hands, said KNX radio reporter Donna Dower. However, gaps were seen elsewhere along the California coast. The chain crossed 16 states, but helping hands drove from other states to help fill gaps.

Similar hand-holding events were held, from one that crossed the Canadian border in upper New York State to lines in Hawaii and Alaska. Hands Across America plans to spend 10 percent of its contributions for direct relief, such as emergency food and shelter, but has said the rest of the money would go for innovative projects designed to lift people out of poverty. apartment after being homeless for almost a year. Nearby were Helen Hayes. Harry Belafonte, Yoko Ono.

New York Mayor Edward I. Koch, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and Sen. Alfonse M.

D'A-mato. At the other end of the line in Long Beach was Ginger Ruiz, who lives with her ill husband In a shelter in Venice, Calif. In New York, a singing, swaying crowd stood 10 deep in some places along the route, and the turnout exceeded every prediction. New Jersey organizers said that 200,000 people. 80.000 more than needed, completed the state's 88-mile line.

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