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...last week in Los Angeles Municipal Court to determine if Cathy Evelyn Smith, 38, a former singer and Belushi's companion during his final days, should be tried for second-degree murder in the 33-year-old comedian's death. Prosecution witnesses, among them former Saturday Night Live Writer Nelson Lyon, said they saw Smith give Belushi repeated drug injections...
First there was Band Aid. Then USA for Africa. Most recently Live Aid, a memorably star-studded, superglam affair. All were for the benefit of African drought victims. Next Sunday the trend continues, albeit for a different group and in a slightly lower gear: Willie Nelson and some of his country music cousins are planning Farm Aid, a benefit concert at the University of Illinois football stadium in Champaign (pop. 58,000) to benefit debt-ridden American farmers...
...thin thread by which all this hangs is the immediate and unconditional release of (imprisoned African National Congress Leader) Nelson Mandela. State President P.W. Botha has got to release Mandela unconditionally if he wants to save the situation. I believe President Botha is a sincere man, despite what has happened. It is a good quality, but in this situation it is not enough. I don't think he has the courage to see his sincerity through...
Among those bound for glory at Blodgett Pool include sprinters Linda Suhs of Springfield, Ill., Stacey Moran of New City, N.Y., and Janice Sweetser of Camp LeJeune, N.C., divers Lisa Pierce of Bay Village, Ohio and Jenny Greene of Darien, Conn., breaststroker Lani Nelson of Fairfax, Virg., backstroker Karen Schneider of Weston, Conn. and middle-distance freestyler Ronda Applebaum of Newton Center, Mass...
...detention order on him. When the Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and one of the country's most outspoken opponents of apartheid, vowed that he would go through with the plan to stage a peaceful demonstration to demand the release of Black Politician Nelson Mandela, he was arrested under a law that permits the authorities to hold him indefinitely. Mandela, a principal leader of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), has been in prison for more than 20 years. In a further crackdown, the government outlawed the country's largest organization of black secondary school...