Word: carles
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...must do everything we can under our constitutional system to stop the killing of unborn children. We're talking about life and death." So said Carl Anderson, legislative aide to Republican Senator Jesse Helms, at a Conservative Political Action Conference a week ago in Washington, D.C. The words were no less harsh at a seminar of 80 women held in a Manhattan town house. Said Harriet Pilpel, general counsel for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a privately funded family-planning service: "If the bills pending before Congress pass and are not held to be unconstitutional, there will be very little...
...DIED. CARL WILSON, 51, a founder of America's quintessential pop group, the Beach Boys; of complications from cancer; in Los Angeles. A gifted guitarist and the youngest of the band's Wilson brothers, Carl was seen as the relatively level-headed and dependable sibling, while Brian, the eldest, brooded as the troubled genius and Dennis, who drowned in 1983, played the lovable rogue. However, Carl too went through bouts with drugs and alcohol. His sweet, smooth pitch is heard in lead vocals in a number of the Beach Boys' most beloved hits, including Good Vibrations and God Only Knows...
...DIED. CARL PERKINS, 65, Big Daddy of rockabilly; after a series of strokes; in Jackson, Tenn. Blue Suede Shoes, his anthem to teenage vanity nearly became his requiem when, as he was en route to a key national-TV performance in 1956, a car crash hobbled him and his career. Drinking binges followed, but so did songs--Honey Don't, Matchbox--that helped teach the Beatles rock 'n' roll...
...International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, a 36-nation body that regulates swordfishing as well as tuna fishing, has set quotas for member countries. "But it's too little too late," argues Carl Safina, director of the Living Oceans Program of the National Audubon Society, who favors a return to harpooning. "People are sick of seeing resources crashing. This goes beyond being an environmental problem; it's a public problem...
Hofher is familiar with new Tar Heels coach Carl Torbush from when the latter coached at Louisiana Tech from 1979 to 1982. Torbush recently replaced Mack Brown as the head coach in Chapel Hill...