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Things began to sour for Joe and Rosie in 1984, when they were shipped to Key Largo, Fla. Rosie gave birth but did not nurse her calf, which soon died. Then, in May 1985, Slifka visited Joe and Rosie. Moved by their confinement, he vowed, "I'm going to get you out of this mess." Shortly thereafter, ORCA was formed...
DIED. Jim Bishop, 79, terse newspaper columnist and melodramatic you-are-there pop historian (The Day Lincoln Was Shot); in Delray Beach, Fla. Bishop also pounded out The Day Christ Was Born and The Day Kennedy Was Shot, plus 18 other books, and wrote a thrice-weekly column from 1956 until...
...other things, the IRS report called Jim Bakker's compensation for 1981 ($259,770.29), 1982 ($400,765.58) and 1983 ($638,112.27) excessive. The agency raised questions about a host of other Bakker-PTL arrangements. Among them: PTL's purchase of a $390,000 condominium for Bakker in Highland Beach, Fla., in 1982, along with $202,566 that was spent on furniture and fixtures; and an interest-free loan of almost $76,000 to Bakker from the ministry. For its part, the ministry argued that Bakker's salary was reasonable because he was the "guiding light" of the ministry. IRS suspended...
...General Motors to load forged dies at a New Jersey auto-assembly plant. As recently as 1981, Unimation made 45% of all robots sold in the U.S. Another setback for robotics will take place next month, when GE plans to fold its $4 million robotmaking plant in Plymouth, Fla., idling 118 workers...
...mosquitoes, which carry such diseases as malaria and yellow fever, also transport the deadly AIDS virus? The question arose in 1985, when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta studied an unusually dense clustering of AIDS sufferers in the mosquito-infested area of Belle Glade, Fla. Last week the Atlanta Constitution stirred up the mosquito scare anew by publishing the preliminary findings of a research team sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Its tentative conclusion: the AIDS virus can indeed ride as a passenger on the blood-sucking mosquito...