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Lewis asserted that a smoking ban might encourage some smokers to quit and possibly prevent non-smokers from lighting up for the first time...
...Trimble, who warned that future participation by Unionists in the talks depended on the British and Irish governments' adopting "radically different measures," managed to drag Tony Blair up to Belfast for emergency consultations with the Unionists. Despite the rhetoric, however, Hillenbrand says the Unionists are not seriously threatening to quit the talks. Even then, the pursuit of happiness in Northern Ireland is on the back burner; the best Blair and Mitchell can hope for is to minimize unhappiness -- and keep the peace...
Kerr waxes nostalgic about his earlierdays-before he "basically, kind of, quit smokingpot." One trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina wasparticularly memorable. "I was playing on one ofthose sidewalks, sitting next to someone on thecurb, and people started throwing money and jointsand stuff. I was, like, `Wow, I've got somethinghere.'" And Kerr recalls with fond-B-9FMBridie J. Clark"Every time I play, and I seepeople that are happy, to me that is sospecial. I feel like I'm playing a part in,I don't know what you call it, you know, Christianwork. I'm not a Christian...
...says he never encountered such abusive treatment as when he signed on with Sundowner in 1991. He claims, for instance, that three male co-workers held him down in a shower and shoved a bar of soap between his buttocks. One of them threatened rape, he says. He quit and later was found to have posttraumatic stress...
DIED. FRED FRIENDLY, 82, broadcasting pioneer and former president of CBS News whose early documentary work set the standard for journalistic integrity; in New York. Friendly quit CBS when the network ran a repeat of I Love Lucy while NBC broadcast a live Senate hearing on Vietnam. (See EULOGY below...