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...Hugo's center was 550 miles southeast of Savannah, Ga., at 27.4 degrees north latitude and 73.6 west longitude and it was moving northwest at 17 mph, up from 12 mph earlier...
Last week McAfee got his wish. Superior Court Judge Edward Johnson of Fulton County, Ga., ruled that McAfee's right to refuse life-sustaining treatment outweighed the state's interest in preserving life. "The ventilator to which he is attached is not prolonging his life; it is prolonging his death," said Johnson. With the court's authorization, McAfee plans to move from a nursing home to a friend's apartment and end his life by using a mouth-activated timer to shut off the ventilator after medical personnel have sedated...
...career track he hoped would lead to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Reagan's term drew to its close, Powell, by then head of the NSC, anxiously scotched rumors that Bush would ask him to stay on. He gratefully accepted the U.S. Forces Command in Fort McPherson, Ga...
...white citizens of Keysville, Ga. (pop. 430, 70% black), did not seem to care that the local government had been dormant since the 1933 election, leaving the hamlet with no police or fire protection and no water or sewer lines. But after discovering that Keysville was still a legally incorporated entity, retired schoolteacher Emma Gresham, 64, decided to run for mayor to bring progress to the sleepy Georgia town. Local whites, fearing that black control might result in higher taxes, went to court to block the election, but Gresham prevailed. Now in her second one-year term, Gresham has embarked...
Known as Jeff until his Exxon days, Hazelwood seemed destined for a career at sea from an early age. One of four children of a veteran Pan Am pilot, he was born in Hawkinsville, Ga., in 1946, then moved with his family to a new | neighborhood in Huntington, Long Island, popular with young airline captains and their families. "If there were any problems, Jeff and I certainly felt isolated from them," says a boyhood chum, Martin Rowley. "Ours were perfect childhoods." Hazelwood's father was a stickler for discipline who permitted no drinking in his home...