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...authority of the Pope. Maximus V led 600,000 followers, mainly in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. He advocated closer relations with the East Orthodox Church, straining ties with Rome. DIED. FRED NEIL, 64, folk-songwriter who penned the theme song Everybody's Talkin' for the 1969 hit movie Midnight Cowboy; in Summerland Key, Florida. Neil emerged from the Greenwich Village music scene in the mid-1960s. The Florida native later founded the Dolphin Research Project to stop the trafficking and exploitation of dolphins. DIED. CHRISTL HAAS, 57, Austrian skiing champion, who won gold and silver medals in the 1964 Olympics...
...Macedonian government has agreed to a cease-fire with the ethnic-Albanian rebels of the National Liberation army, to begin at midnight local time tonight. Despite that welcome development, there's still a significant possibility of a broader conflict to come, because the guerrillas' insurgency appears to have triggered the beginnings of that by-now familiar Balkan ritual of "ethnic cleansing." The rebels reportedly expelled some 600 non-Albanians from the villages they captured on Sunday, while elsewhere in Macedonia ethnic-Albanian business owners have shut up shop and fled following threats by a shadowy Macedonian militia group...
...there are flashes. Becker is a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy, a European foundation devoted to achieving social change through sports, and when he heard about its support of the Richmond, Virginia-based Midnight Basketball program, he insisted on seeing it in action. A barely publicized event in mid-April promised little in the way of image-polishing, but Becker went to Richmond anyway, attended a workshop, gave a pep talk, borrowed some socks and sneakers and played ball - all before an audience of only 100 people. A month earlier, he had spent two days working...
...Tijuana Sessions is selling well, and he has lucrative gigs scheduled this summer in Los Angeles, London and Barcelona. His home, in Tijuana's Las Playas neighborhood, has an ocean view, cathedral ceilings and a custom-built studio, where he shows a visitor his collection of 40 keyboards. As midnight approaches, the visitor looks at his watch and makes a gesture that says it's time to go. "Why are you going?" he screams over the music. "Everything you need is here...
...things to pawn. I never stole from my family. By the time I was 17, I dropped out of school, I had my own apartment. I'd wake up around noon, and drink bourbon and coffee, in that order. Then I'd go to work bussing tables, finish at midnight, and go to a bar. Closing time was 2:30 a.m., so I'd go home to drink. If I didn't have anything at home, I 'd stay at a coffee shop until it was time to catch a bus to the airport. The bars there opened at 7a.m...